Leuciscus. INDIAN CYPRINIDZ. 409 
VII.—Cyrprinus cHEDRA, Buch. Coll. 
Hardwicke’s Illust. t._ f. 
The most remarkable character of the fish represented by Buchanan 
under this name, is the contraction of the body between the ventrals and anal, 
and the recurved direction of the tail, causing a convex, or oblique surface 
over the insertion of the anal, as in the Barbels. The fin rays, as stated by 
Buchanan, are, 
DAO: PAA (2) 3 V9: ALT: C.18. 
There are two circumstances that induce me to suspect the peculiarity in 
form above noticed to be accidental, or a fault either in the drawing or in 
the specimen from which it was taken; the first is, that Buchanan does not 
notice it in his description ; and the second, that the fish from which the 
following description was taken appears to me to be the same species, though 
differing in the number of rays in some of the fins. 
VIIIL—Levuciscus Bracuiatus,* J. M. 
IPIV4Ae sf 5: 
Length of the head to that of the body as one to three, and greatest 
depth is equal to the length of the head; suborbitar plates of uniform breadth, 
scapulary and brachial plates present a broad silvery surface behind the opercu- 
la; forty-four scales are ranged along the lateral line, which descends to the 
fourth row of scales from the ventrals; ten scales in an oblique row from the 
base of the ventrals to the dorsum ; at the base of each scale there is a small 
black spot. The fin rays are, 
IDS gb L402 Ni9) -VA10 C18: 
* The specimen from which my figure and description were taken, was presented to the Asiatic 
Society by Mr. Hodgson. I have since however obtained several from Mr. Griffith. 
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