334 INDIAN CYPRINID^. PfEonomince . 



his collection is B. progeneius. It seems to delight in the clear brisk currents 

 of large rivers, passing during the dry season into shallow tributaries to depo- 

 sit its spawn ; I am not aware of its being found in the jeels and muddy 

 rivers of Bengal. Buchanan mentions it as growing to three or four feet in 

 length ; those I saw in Assam varied from twenty inches to two and a half 

 feet. As an article of food it equals the Ruee, and might be extensively 

 propagated^ especially in low hilly districts where that fish would not 

 answer so well, 



II. — B. Progeneius, J. M. 

 t. 56, f. 3. 



JungJia of the Assamese. 



Length of the head to that of the body as one to three ; scales large and 

 rounded posteriorly ; twenty six along each lateral line, and six from the base 

 of each ventral to the dorsum. Fins short. The number of rays are, 



D.12: P.16: V.9 : A.7 : C.19. 



The head is long and much compressed, the mouth is narrow and small, 

 and from the lower lip a fleshy appendix is extended, by which it is distin- 

 guished from the neighbouring species ; nevertheless it is figured in Bucha- 

 nan's collection of drawings as Q/p. tor, to which it bears so close an affinity 

 that he may probably have considered it to be the same. The intestines 

 are capacious, and consist of four convolutions extending along the posterior 

 half of the abdominal cavity, leaving the anterior portion of that cavity 

 chiefly to the stomach and liver. The first is a conical sac (larger than 

 the stomach of the Cirrhins) occupying the right side, and terminating simply 

 in the intestine. The liver is broad consisting of several lobes, chiefly placed 

 on the left side of the stomach. 



