444 INDIAN CYPRINID&. Apalopterine 
1.—CoBiTiIs DARIo, Buch. 
CalG its Sake Gate OOD: 
Six cirri, two suborbitar spines, body compressed, depth equal to about a 
third of the length, body crossed by about seven transverse green bands. 
Three or four interrupted green bands on the caudal. The fin rays are, 
Die 2132 VS ees. 
Found in all the large rivers of Assam and Bengal, and attains eight or 
ten inches in length. 
2.—CoBITIS GETA, Buch. 
t. 61. f. 9. P. G. t. 11. f. 96. 
Eight cirri, two suborbitar spines under each eye, and seven transverse 
bars of blackish green across the body, and one on either side of the head 
crossing over the eyes, and also two interrupted bars on the caudal. The 
fin rays are, 
Pye er 1S VES aso C19, 
Buchanan’s variety of this species has but one bar on the caudal, nine rays 
in each ventral, and only seven in the anal fin. There are other trifling 
. differences of colour between the Assam and Bengal varieties, but scarcely 
enough to induce me to regard them as distinct species. 
3.—BoTIA GRANDIS, Gray. 
Hardw. Illust. 
Body brown, with irregular and somewhat square yellow spots, fins 
streaked and spotted with brown, eight cirri. This is the only instance of 
a spotted species that I know of in this group, and ought to suggest a better 
name than that above applied to it. 
