410 INDIAN CYPRINIDZ. Sarcoborine. 
The colour is dark bluish along the back, with a dark streak across the 
dorsal fin, which with the anal and caudal are tipt with black ; the ventrals are 
small, and rounded. Mr. Griffith states that this species is common in the 
rapids of the Bramaputra, and most voracious in its appetite for flies. 
IX.—LEvcIscus MORAR, 
Cyprinus morar, Buch. 
Op. Cit. Pl Sl t275. 
Cyprinus bukrangi, id. Coll. 
The mouth is small, placed behind a prominent and narrow snout. Back 
green, sides entirely white, and silvery; scales large and covered with a copious 
pearly pigment. About forty scales along the lateral line, and nine rows from 
the base of the ventrals to the dorsum. The lower lobe of the caudal longer 
than the upper; suborbitar plates extend forward to the corners of the mouth ; 
snout fleshy and prominent. The fin rays are, 
D.10: P.15: V.8:A.12: C.20. 
This species is very abundant in the Bramaputra, is about three or four inches 
in length, and as Buchanan justly observes, is high flavoured and much sought 
after as a delicacy ; stomach and intestine form a thick fleshy canal equal to 
the entire length of the body, inclusive of the head and caudal. In addition 
to it, Buchanan has figured another variety, Bukrangz, im which the lobes 
of the caudal appear to be less divided, and the scales marked with slight 
strie inthe drawing, and the membrane of the fins dotted, and a slight 
tinge of yellow on the lower parts of the body. I have not seen this species, 
nor can I find it described in the Gangetic Fishes. 
