666 Indian Cyprinidce. [August, 



Spec. O. guttatus, J. If. t. 39. f. 1. 



Head covered with thick integuments, branchial apertures small, sides 

 and fins irregularly marked with brown spots, scales minute. D.10: P. 17: 

 V.11:A.10:C.20. 



Hab. Mountain streams in Boutan, at an elevation of about 5000 feet, 

 where it was found by Mr. Griffith. 



Spec. Cyprinus Richards onii, Gray. Hardw. Illust. t. 94. f. 2. 



About eleven rays in the dorsal, and nine in the anal, back speckled 

 with minute dots.* 



Spec. O. maculatus. J. M. t. 57. f. 6. Journ. A. S. vii. t. 56. f. 6. 



Mouth situated on the lower surface of the head, small shapeless spots 

 irregularly distributed over the body, but not on the fins, scales minute. 

 D.ll: P.18: V.10:A.5: C.19. 



Hab. Mountain streams at Simla, elevated between 5000 and 6000 feet, 

 where it was found by Dr. Macleod. 



Spec. O. progastus,f J. M. t. 40. f. 4. Adoee of the Assamese. 



Muzzle fleshy and pointed, lips thick, somewhat pendulous and muscu- 

 lar, abdomen very prominent beneath the pectorals. D.12: P. 13: V. 10: 

 A.7: C.19. 



Hab. Rapids in Upper Assam, where it occasionally attains 18 inches in 

 length, but its flesh is believed to produce vertigo and other alarming effects 

 on those who use it. 



" III. Gen.— CYPRINUS Pboprius. 



"Char. Body elevated, lower jaw short. and rounded in front, lips 

 hard, thick, and without cirri ; dorsal long. Dorsal and anal usually 

 preceded by spinous rays. 



" Obs. Only two species of this group have been as yet found in India, 

 and one of these is without the dorsal and anal spinous rays.J 



Spec. C. semiplotus, J. M. t. 37. f. 2. Sentooree of the Assamese. 



Head slightly depressed, with a single row of large mucous pores extend- 

 ing horizontally in front of the snout, back gibbous, thirty-two scales along 

 the lateral line, and ten in an oblique row from the base of the ventrals to 

 the dorsum. D.27 : P. 16. : V.9 : A.9: C.19. 



Hab. The rapids of the Bramaputra in Upper Assam, Usual size 1 foot 

 to \\ in length. 



* This may probably prove to be O. guttatus. 

 t ITpO"ya OT WCj tnat nas a prominent belly. 



% They have little affinity to each other ; in C. semiplotus, the head is small and 

 fleshy, so as to conceal the opercular plates, and in C. catla, it is large with naked 

 opercula. 



