430 INDIAN CYPRINID#. Apalopterine. 
I].—PsILORHYNCHUS VARIEGATUS. 
t: 50: f: 2: 
Cyp. balitora, Buch. Op. Cit. 348. 
Stolephorus balitora, id. Coll. 
The following characters derived from the Assam specimen, differ 
little from those given by Buchanan, except that the rays of the pectorals 
are seventeen in each fin, instead of twelve as stated by Buchanan with 
doubt. The colours are, 
Silvery below, above spotted; one row of cloud-like spots along the back, 
and another on each side; thirty-three scales along the lateral line, and about 
eight across the body from the base of the ventrals to the dorsum ; three 
bars on the caudal. The fin rays are, 
DMO PAlenVe Oe eA aaa 
Stomach hard and round, intestines small, and about half the length of the 
body. 
Hasit.—Rapids at the foot of mountains. 
IV.—Gewn. COBITIS. Lin. 
The Loaches are very numerous in India; Buchanan describes thirteen 
species, and Mr. Griffith’s and my own collection in Assam make us acquainted 
with seven more. 
The caudal fin appears to afford the only natural character by which they 
may be separated; of this I have taken advantage, and find that in addition to 
the entire caudal, the colours of the true Loaches consist of different shades 
between brown and yellow, more rarely green; but whatever the colour may 
be, it is usually disposed in dots accumulated in clusters or nebulz on the 
