1839.] Indian Cyprinidce. 66'3 



Spec. Cyp. curchius, Buch. t. 40. f. 3. 



Scales minute and disposed so as to indicate longitudinal stripes, lips 

 fleshy and fimbriated, seventy-eight scales along the lateral line, and 

 thirty from the base of the ventrals to the dorsum. D.17 : P.16: V.9: 



Hab. Bengal and Assam. 



Spec. Cyp. cursis,* Buch. t. 38. f. 3. 



Snout thick and projecting, eighty-three scales on the lateral line, and 

 about twenty-seven across the body from the base of the ventrals to the dor- 

 sum. D.16: P.17: V.9: A.7 : C. i°. 



Hab. Assam and Bengal. 

 Variet. Cyp. cursa, Buch. t. 38. f. 2. j3 



Scales and fin rays the same as in C. curchius, but the back is more 

 abruptly arched, and the abdominal margin is straight to the anal. 



Spec. C. dyocheilus,f J. M. t. 37. f. 1. 

 Goreak of the Assamese. 



Head long, opercular plates covered with thick integuments, snout mus- 

 cular, forty-four scales along the lateral line, and thirteen in an oblique line 

 from the base of the ventrals to the dorsum. D.12 : P. 18 : V.9 : A.8 : C.19. 

 Hab. Assam, where it usually attains two feet and upwards in length. 



" II. Gen.— BARBUS. 



" Char. Lower jaw composed of two lengthened limbs, united in 

 front so as to form a smooth narrow apex. Dorsal short preceded by a 

 strong spine, lips hard, four cirri, intermaxillaries protractile. 



" Obs. Species of this genus inhabit the Caspian Sea, the Nile, and 

 several of the rivers of Europe, generally confined to clear water. The 

 comparative shortness of the intestinal canal proves them to be less 

 exclusively herbivorous than any other fishes of the same sub-family. 

 The Indian species, indicated in the Regne Animal, all belong to other 

 genera. 



Spec. B. hexastichus,X 3. M. t. 39. f. 2. 



Cyp. tor, Buch. P. G. 305. 



Lobura of the Assamese. 



Length of the head to that of the body as two to seven, twenty-five scales 

 along the lateral line, and six in an oblique row from the base of the ventrals 

 to the dorsum. D. 1 1 : P. 17 : V.9 : A.8 : C. 19. 



Hab. Great rivers in the plains of India. Ordinary length from one and 

 a half to three feet. 



* This variety had been figured from a dried specimen and transferred to stone, 

 before I found in Buchanan's collection a most excellent drawing of it. 



t So called from the pendulous structure of the snout descending so as to form the 

 appearance of a second lip. 



t From the scales forming six rows along the sides. 



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