350 INDIAN CYPRINID^. Pceonominee. 



character by which Buchanan distinguished the group under the native name 

 Ba7igon, but the ridge in question, though commonly met with, is not univer- 

 sal, or peculiar to the group, as it is also observed in the genus Mugil, and 

 besides, is very obscure. 



The forms which come under this genus resolve themselves into three 

 divisions — 1st, such as have two minute cirri ; 21d, those with a hard, round, 

 and smooth snout without cirri ; 3d, species with a rough, soft, and fleshy 

 snout. 



In the first of these divisions we have, 1. Cyprimis mrigala ; 2. Cyprinus 

 curniuca ; 3. Cyprinus reha ; 4. Cyprinus angra. 



In the second division we have, 1. G. lissorhynchus ; 2. G. isurus ; 

 3. G. limnophilus ; 4. G. bicolor ; and 5. G. anisurus* 



In the third division, 1. G. ricnorlujnchus\ ; 2. Cyprinus hoga ; 3. Cyprinus 

 pangusia ; in all, eleven, which I have been enabled either to identify with 

 Buchanan's species, or describe as distinct. 



I.^ — Cyprinus mrigala, Buch. 



t. 88, f. 1 — P. G. t. 6, f. 79. 



This is one of the most important of our Indian species, and was justly asso- 

 ciated by Buchanan with his Bangons, though afterwards erroneously referred in 

 the Regne Animal to the Cirrhins. It is the Mrigala of Sanscrit writers, and 

 the Mirga, Meerica, &cc. of the Bengal and Assam fishermen. The figure 

 given of it by Buchanan is not well expressed, the head is too much flattened 

 or depressed, the scales are represented too large, and there are other dispropor- 

 tions which to one well acquainted with the fish, give his figure an unnatural 



appearance, for which reason I have given another figure which has been care- 

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* These species are probably equivalent to Cyprinus cura, Buch. Cyp. bata, id. andCyj». acra, 

 id. I have however, been unable to reconcile them with Buchanan's descriptions. 



t Gob. ricnorhynchus, J. M. is equivalent to Cyp.falcata, Gray Hard. Illust. t. — f. — ; Cyp. 

 hoga, Buch. Cyp. pangusia, id. and Gob. malacostomus of ray synopsis are probably but one species. 



