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exceeding 1} in. long, with fins less elevated and tail much less pointed ; 

 the eyes also less distantly apart, and of a brilliant pale nacreous azure 

 (those of the other being yellow). Colour whitish, diaphanous, studded 

 with dark specks which are less numerous below the lateral line : scales 

 large, barely discernible. 



D. 7.— A. 22 or 23.— V. 3.— P. 5 ?— C. 14. 



This minute fish is sometimes brought to the bazar in considerable 

 quantities, many pounds' weight of them together. Occasionally, a few 

 of the P. Buchanani may be picked out of the mass, and some fry of 

 other fishes, especially Mugil corsula ; but the present species, remark- 

 able for its conspicuous light blue irides, predominates in the rate of 50 

 or more to 1 of any other. Wherever it occurs, therefore, it would 

 seem to abound excessively. 



The following Cyprinid^e may likewise be here described. 



Systomus microlepis, nobis, n. s. Much resembling S. Ogilbie 

 (Rohtee Ogilbii, SykesJ ;* but with still smaller scales, and the dorsal spine 

 is more finely pectinated behind. Scales larger on the anterior two-fifths of 

 the body; and a series of 44 of them, counting obliquely downward, and 

 of 73 along the lateral line. 



D. 3-7.— A. 1-18.— P. 13.-V. 7.— C. 19. 



Spinous ray of anal fin minute : the pectorals not reaching to base of 

 ventrals : tail furcate. Colour (blanched in spirit) silvery throughout. 

 Length of specimen, to end of tail-lobes, 6| in. ; and depth at base of 

 dorsal fin. 2f in. Form very Bream-like. 



Sab. ? 



Leuciscus salmoides, nobis, n. s. Affined to L. goha (Cyprinus — 

 Barilius goha, B. H., v. Opsarius gracilis, McClelland) ; but larger and 

 deeper in the body, with the spots smaller, much more numerous, and 

 more regularly disposed, many of them occurring below the lateral 

 line, and others on the opercula and prse-opercula : upper lip studded 

 with pores. 



D. 10.-A. 13.— P. 14.-V. 9.— C. 18. 



Lateral line composed of 88 to 90 scales ; and oblique series of 26 

 scales descending from anterior base of dorsal. Length of specimen 

 11 in. Colour blanched in spirit. Procured at Allahabad by the late 

 Major Wroughton. 



L. lineolatus, nobis, n. s. A Perilampds of McClelland, affined in 



* Dr. Jerdon refers the species of Bohtee, Sykes, to Abramis ; but they clearly 

 appertain to Systomus, as assigned by Dr. Bleeker : vide dorsal spines, &c. 



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