INDIAN CYPRINID.E. 221 



4. An examination of the viscera connected with the digestive organs 

 together with the form of the mouth, suggested the possibility of identifying 



Tab. 84. Hypostomus sisor, Buck. Sisor Rabdophorus, id. Gan Fis. two drawings. 



T. 85. Malopterus Kazali, Buch. Two figures; name changed to " Malopterus ( Ailia) Benga. 



lensis" Gray, in the pirated figures. 

 T. 86. Fig. 1. Cyprinus angra, Buch. Pirated figure disguised under bad colouring, and named 



" Cyprinus Humiltonii" Gray. Fig. 2. Cyprinus goha, Buch. Colouring much exaggerated. 



There are two figures of each species, so that this plate has been taken wholesale from 



Buchanan. 



T. 87. Fig. 3. Cyprinus chedra, Buch. A good copy of a very beautiful drawing in Buchanan's 

 collection. 



T. 89. Fig. 1. Syngnathus carce, Buch. (Kharke id. orig. draw.) Note — an error in spelling the 

 generic name of this species as written by Buclianan on the original drawing, is preserved in 

 the pirated copy. Fig. 4. Syngnathus deokpata, Buch. 



T. 91. Fig. I. Mystus chitol, Buch. Colouring much exaggerated in the pirated copy. 



T. 93. Fig. 1. Cyprinus mosal, Buch. Two figures, and two of Cyprinus morula, id. The coloured 

 copy of this last is so badly executed that the characteristic marks of the species, though well 

 depicted in the original by the obscure transverse streaks crossing the sides, are quite omitted 

 in the copy. 



T. 94. Fig. 1. Cyprinus tileo, Buch. 



T. 95. Fig. 1. Ophisurus boro, Buch. The species is referred to Buchanan's manuscripts, but nothing 

 is said to point out from whence the drawing was obtained, but it is so accurately traced from 

 Buchanan's original, as to remove any doubt on that score. Fig. 2. Ophisurus harancha, 

 Buch. By mistake on the part of the plagiarists in numbering the figures, the details of the 

 first, are given to the second species. Fig. 4. Murcena raitaborua, Buch. disguised under 

 the names of Rataboura " Hardrvickii" Gray ; thus not only depriving Buchanan of the 

 honor of figuring, but also of naming a new species. As an instance of the little reliance to 

 be placed on those who thus appropriate the works of others, it is necessary to observe that the 

 outline figure representing the lower parts of Murcena raitaborua is transferred to Ophisurus 

 bora, in return for that of the last having been given on the same plate to Ophisurus harancha. 

 In other plates not numbered, forming 19lh and 20th parts, are pirated as follows; 



