Hymenphysa. INDIAN CYPRINIDZ. 443 
VII—ScHIsTURA SUBFUSCA. 
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Without spines; four cirri in front of the mouth, various regular zones 
encircling the body ; eyes approximating to each other on either side of a nar- 
row trenchant ridge like that of Cobztis phoxocheila ; snout hard. Fin rays are, 
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Hasir.—Upper Assam. 
VIII.—ScHIsTURA SCATURIGINA. 
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Cobitis scaturigina, Buch. 
This species is also without suborbitar spines, and in my opinion is nearly 
allied to S. swbfusca; the ventrals are however round, and the rays of the 
dorsal are marked on the middle with a brown spot. I cannot find this spe- 
cies referred to in the Gangetic Fishes, although it is figured in Buchanan’s 
collection. 
So many divisions of the Loaches have been proposed, and so many names 
to designate those divisions, that I feel some doubt in recommending the 
generic term Hymenphysa* for the following three species, whch are dis- 
tinguished from all others by the presence of an abdominal natatory bladder, 
separated into lobes by a longitudinal septum. 
* Etym. vey, a membrane, and guoa, an air-bladder. 
