1839.] Indian Cyprinidce. 667 



Spec. C. catla, Buck. P. G. t. xiii. f. 81. 



Head large, forty-four scales along the lateral line, and fourteen in an 

 oblique row from the base of the ventrals to the dorsum. Dorsal and anal 

 without spinous rays. D.18 : P. 18 : V.9: A.8 : C.19. 



Hab. Fresh-water rivers and ponds in Bengal and Assam. Ordinary 

 size from \\ to 3 feet in length, but occasionally it is found twice that size. 



"IV. Gen.— GOBIO. 



" Char. The dorsal is placed over the ventrals, and like the anal 

 is short and without spines, lower jaw shorter than the upper, and is 

 either round or square in front, lips thin and hard, snout prominent. 



" Obs. The Gudgeons thus denned are a very natural group, remark- 

 able for the extraordinary length of the abdominal canal. One of the 

 only two indicated by Cuvier from Buchanan's species, is an Opsarion, 

 a genus no less remarkable for the shortness of the abdominal canal 

 than the Gudgeons are for its length ; but as the distinctions on which 

 the subdivisions of the family are here made, have not before been 

 observed, we cannot be surprised, that it should be repeated in the last 

 edition of the Regne Animal from Linnaeus, that the stomach of 

 Cyprinidce, " is continuous with a short intestine." The following five 

 species have each two cirri. 



Spec. Cyp. mrigala, Buch. t. 38. f. 1. P. G. t. 6. f. 7. 



Length of the head to that of the body as one to four and a half, depth of 

 the body about one-fourth of the length, forty -four scales along the lateral 

 line, and fourteen in an oblique line from the base of the ventrals to the 

 dorsum. D.16: P.17 : V.9: A.8: C.19 



Hab. Rivers and ponds throughout Bengal and Assam. Ordinary length 

 two feet. 

 Variet. Rewah of the Natives, t. 58. f. 1. 



Head less compressed than the body, upper jaw somewhat prominent, 

 forty-three scales on the lateral line and thirteen in an oblique line from the 

 base of the ventrals to the dorsum. D.15 : P. 16 : V.9 : A.8 : C.19. 



Hab. Ponds in the vicinity of Calcutta. Length from 6 to 12 inches. 



Spec. Cyp. curmuca, Buch. Jour. Mys. III. t. 30. 



Snout prominent and furnished with tubercles or mucous pores, lips 

 smooth, and on each there is a small bone. D.ll : P. 16 : V.9 : A.8 : C.18. 



Hab. Rivers in Southern India, where it occasionally reaches three feet 

 in length. 



Spec. Cyp. reba, Buch. P. G. p. 280. 



Head blunt, mouth small and directed downwards, lips soft. D.ll : P.17 : 

 V.9: A8: C.19. 



Hab. Northern parts of Bengal and Behar, where it attains two feet in 

 length. 



