GoUo. INDIAN CYPRINID^. 355 



There are thirty-five scales along the lateral line, and fourteen in an 

 oblique row from the base of the ventrals to the dorsum. Colour pale 

 olive brown above, and reddish-white below. Intestines long, dark coloured, 

 and convoluted in circles round the parieties of the abdomen. Posterior cell 

 of the air vessel much larger than the anterior. 



It was found by Buchanan in the Bramaputra, and there it also occur- 

 red to me. The only part of the figure in Hardwicke to be relied on is the 

 outline, and even that is so obscured with a fanciful display of colours that 

 no one, vmless familiar with the species, could detect its resemblance to the 

 drawing.* 



V. — GOBIO LISSORHYNCHUS, J. M. 

 t. 55, f. 5. 



This species includes those varieties, as far as I am able to make them out, 

 referred to in the Gangetic Fishes under the names of Cyprimis cura, 

 Cyprinus acra, and Cyprmus hata, and which are distinguished by hard 

 smooth lips, snout without cirri, and with from eleven to twelve rays in the 

 dorsal fin. In the preceding part of this paper, in which I have given an 

 outline of the species and groups composing the family generally, I have been 

 anxious to keep distinct all species which we have any good authority for 

 supposing really to exist in India, in hopes that further information will be 

 obtained regarding them. 



Buchanan distinguished Cyprinus hata chiefly by the upper lobe of the cau- 

 dal fin, which he says is longer than the lower ; but in the drawing he has left us, 



* During the twenty years Buclianan's drawings lay at the Botanic Garden before tliey were 

 transferred to Hardwicke's Illustrations, many of the colours appear to have undergone a change, such 

 as light blues and greens becoming dark brown ; not aware of this, the copyist has not only imitated the 

 altered colours, but added a little to their intensity ; the consequence of which is, that both this and 

 the other figures similarly obtained in the expensive work referred to, are made to appear in black, 

 where they should only be pale grey or green. 



