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latter is a larger and coarser fish, and bluer in colour. Very bony, but sweet. Differs 
slightly from the Cyprinus Curmuca of Hamilton, in having 2 rays in the dorsal and 
1 in the ventral more, and in the scaly appendage to the ventral fins. 
Found in the Mota Mola river, 8 miles east of Poona. 
We have in this fish another proof of the extreme difficulty of making generic cha- 
racters rigidly embrace all the species of a genus. The Barbels have four cirri; it ought 
not, therefore, to be a Barbel. But the species of the next genus, Gobio, are without 
cirri and without spines, whilst the present species has two cirri and a spine in the 
dorsal ; it cannot, therefore, be a Gobio ; and as its chief characteristics are rather those 
of Barbus than Gobio, I have classed it accordingly. However, Cuvier, in the ‘ Régne 
Animal,’ considers the Cyprinus Curmuca of Buchanan Hamilton as a Gobio or Gugeon. 
Genus Cuonprostoma, Agassiz. 
The first division of the genus Leuciscus of Klein. Dorsal fin in the centre of the back. 
Cuonprostoma Kawrvs. 
Tab. LXII. Fig. 2. 
A Chondrostoma, without lateral line, tubercles, or cirri: with 12 rays in the dorsal, 8 in the anal, and 16 
in the pectoral fins. 
A subcylindrical fish, with a narrow profile and lance-shaped head : back of a reddish- 
green grey, silvery below. Fins with the extremity of the rays tinted reddish ; dorsal 
fin of 12 rays, situated in the centre of the back, but two rays undivided ; pectoral fins 
of 16 rays ; ventral fins of 9 rays, situated on a perpendicular let fall from the centre of 
the dorsal fin ; anal fin of 8 rays, including one short ray before the longest ray. ‘Tail 
forked, of 19 rays, exclusive of 4 rays on each side of the longest ray ; lobes of the tail 
sharp and equal ; lateral line very rare, and when occurring obscure. Length 6 inches 
(grows to a foot) ; height 1;4>ths. This fish has precisely the same number of rays 
in all its fins as the Cyprinus Angra of Dr. Hamilton, but it is abundantly distinct 
not only in its colour and in the absence of a dotted stripe, but more particularly in the 
want of a lateral line, which is of more importance than the difference of a ray or two 
in the fins. The Kawrus belongs to Dr. Hamilton’s ‘‘ Morulius”’ division of the Cypri- 
nus family, and it has a close affinity to his Cyprinus Muszha, but it is not identical with 
it. It has much the figure of the European Barbel, or rather of the Salmo fasciatus. 
Found in the Beema river, at Seedataik. 
CHONDROSTOMA FULUNGEE. 
A Chondrostoma, with dorsal fin of 10 rays, anal 6, and pectoral of 10; of an elongated, and not much 
compressed shape. 
Pectoral fins small, of 10 rays, situated close to the gills ; ventral fins small, of 8 rays, 
situated in the middle of the abdomen ; anal fin of 6 rays, an inch from the caudal fin ; 
