354 INDIAN CYPRINIDiE. Pceonomince. 



described before ; at all events, the latter error is one that may be more easily- 

 corrected than the former. I have, however, a specimen in my collection which 

 corresponds so closely with Buchanan's description, that I might almost ven- 

 ture to look upon it as the same. But in hopes that some member of the 

 Society will forward to our Museum a specimen of the Curmuca, which is 

 common in the rivers of southern India, I will withhold for the present any 

 further notice of this species than may be found in the synopsis. 



III. CyPRINUS REBA, Bucll. 



Had Buchanan not stated that the cirri of this species are appended from 

 the end of the snout, instead of the corners of the mouth, I should have been 

 disposed to refer the specimen which is alluded to above, to this species, which 

 is common, he observes, in the north-western parts of Bengal, where it attains 

 two feet in length : as I have not seen it, I must refer the reader to Buchanan's 

 description, 



IV. — Cyprinus angra, Buch. 

 Hardwicke's Illust. t. 86, f. 1. Pisces 1. c. t. 3, f. 1. 



I had figured and named this species Gohio le'prosus during my journey in 

 Assam, before I became acquainted either with the figure inHardwicke, or aware 

 of the existence of Buchanan's unpublished drawings ; but I have since lost the 

 s]Decimen I had collected on the occasion, and must now trust to my original 

 notes for a description of it. The length of the head to that of the body is as 

 one to four ; operculum rounded behind ; mouth small, directed obliquely up- 

 wards ; snout prominent and fleshy, with two small cirri at the corners of the 

 mouth ; suborbitar plates broader below than behind the eyes ; pectorals small, 

 with their bases slightly covered by the branchial plates. The fin rays are, 



D.IO: P.IO: V.9: A.8: C.19. 



