INDIAN CYPRINID^. 



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Variet. Cyp. putitora, Buch. 



Head small and blunt, with eleven rays in the dorsal, 

 attaining occasionally nine feet in length.* 



Spec. B. megalepis,j Hardw. lUust. t. 93. 

 Ci/p. mosal, Buch. 

 Mahdseer of the Hindus. 



Body below uniformly arched at the insertion of the anal, 

 length of the head to that of the body as one to three. D.13 : 

 P.17: V.9: A.7:C.^". 



Hab. Northern parts of Bengal. Length occasionally four 

 or five feet. 



Spec. B. chelynoides, J. M. t. 57. f. 5. Jour. A. S. vii. t. 56. f. 5. 



Head large, lips thick and smooth, thirty-three scales 

 along the lateral line, and nine in an oblique line from the 

 base of the ventrals to the dorsum. D.IO : P.16: V.9 : A.7 : 

 C.18. 



Hab. Mountain streams at Simla. Usual size about six 

 inches in length. Dr. Macleod's Coll. 



Obs. The following five species have the dorsal spine serrated behind. 

 The first three are probably varieties of the same species. 



* This fish I liave been unable to identify with Buchanan's description, I may therefore 

 have described it under another name; he says the iiead is blunt^ oval, small, and smooth, 

 which scarcely applies to either of the foregoing, in which the liead is remarkably lengthened ; 

 that of B. hcxagonolepis would come nearest to it, tliough some of the otiiers seem to correspond 

 more in other respects with the account given. Pise. Gang. 303. 



t From Moga large, and Icpis a scale. 



