362 INDIAN CYPRINID2&. Peonomine. 
collect in four years before me, I should only contribute to the embarrassment 
of the question. With regard to the third species, Cyprinus pangusia, which 
according to Buchanan is distinguished by fourteen rays in the dorsal fin, 
while in each of the former varieties that fin contains only twelve rays, it 
certainly does appear at first sight to rest on a better footing ; especially as all 
the species of this group that are without cirri, present a hard prominent snout, 
and have only twelve rays in the dorsal. I am acquainted however with a 
variety which for a long time I considered to be Cyprinus pangusia, but on 
re-examination I found two rudimental cirri, and that the rays of the dorsal 
fin are strictly fifteen, thus making it correspond with the Rewah, a variety 
of Cyprinus mrigala. 
When we add to these observations the testimony of Buchanan himself, 
that the three species nearly resemble each other, and compare the striking 
resemblance that exists between the figure of Cyprinus boga, Pisc. Gang. t. 28, 
f. 80, and Cyprinus pangusia, t. 42, f:1, we cannot hesitate in the present 
state of the question to regard them as one and the same species. Still, how- 
ever, we ought not to forget the distinctions Buchanan has pointed out, and 
which have been preserved in the synopsis. The following variety may how- 
ever be distinct from Cyprinus boga, and the drawing of it in Buchanan’s 
collection is marked Cyprinus pangusia, although I consider it to be the fish 
he has described as Cyprinus ariza. 
Cyprinus PANGUus1A, Buch. 
a Cen ae ace 
The length of the head is equal to the depth of the body, and to a third 
of the length, exclusive of the head and caudal. 
The head is compressed rather more than the body, so as to render it 
narrow between the eyes. The snout is narrow, but rough, porous, prominent, 
and soft, without being loose or pendulous ; the under jaw is short and thin, 
so as to be in a great measure concealed by the snout when the mouth is 
