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INDIAN CYPRINID^. 



in being without cirri. They correspond with the species named by Buch- 

 anan, Q/p. curchius, C. cursa, and C. cursis, but I cannot altogether reconcile 

 them with his descriptions ; they appear to me to be varieties resulting from 

 domestication. 



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 : f .9 : A.7 : C.^^ 

 Hab. Bengal and Assam. 



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



Snout thick and projecting, eighty-three scales on the la- 

 teral line, and about twenty-seven across the body from the base 

 of the ventrals to the dorsum. D.16 : P.17 : V.9 : A.7 : C}-- 

 Hab. Assam and Bengal. 



Variet. Cyp. cursa, Buch. t. 38. f. 2. /3 



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. 

 Goreah of the Assamese. 



Head long, opercular plates covered with thick integu- 

 ments, snout muscular, forty-four scales along the lateral line, 



* 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. 



