INDIAN CYPRINID^. 277 



Spec. Cyp. angra, Buch. 



Cyp. liamiltonii, Gray, Hard. lUust. t. 86. f. 1. 

 Las seem of the Assamese. 



Snout prominent and fleshy, thirty-five scales along the 

 lateral line, and fourteen in an oblique line from the base of the 

 ventrals to the dorsum. D.IO : P.IO : V.9 : A.8 : C.19.* 

 Hab. Bramaputra. 



Spec. G. lissorliynchus.\ J. M. t. 55. f. 5. 



Cyp. acra, Buch. Cyp. cura, id. P. G. p. 284. 



Snout smooth and blunt without cirri, thirty-nine scales 

 along the lateral line, and thirteen from the base of the ventrals 

 to the dorsum. D.ll : P.16 : V.9 : A.8 : C.19. 



Hab. Large rivers of Bengal and Assam. Usual length 

 six to nine inches. 



In the six following species the scales are thin and rough, and generally 

 placed so that each scale is in the axis of the one immediately preceding 

 or succeeding, and not in regular oblique rows as is usual in the family ; 

 but this peculiarity is not so Avell marked in some species as in others. 

 They are all without cirri. See Cyprimis bangon, Buch. t. 58. f. 2. |3. 



Spec. Gobio isurus, J. M.^ 



Snout smooth without cirri, scales in parallel roAvs, Avith a 

 grey line betw^een each roAv. D.ll : P.14 : V.9 : A. 7 : C.^|. 



Hab. Upper Assam, wjiere it attains a size of eight or ten 

 inches. 



* Buclianan gives the lin rays as D.IJ : P. 18, or 19 : V.9 : A.8 : C.19. 



t From (issor smooth, and rfiijHchus tlie snout. % From isos (Mjual. and oura caiufd. 



