Gohio. INDIAN CYPRINID^. 361 



The length of the head is equal to the altitude of the body, and in pro- 

 portion to the length of the latter as one to three. The head is a little more 

 compressed than the body, and deep, especially at the snout, whicli is rough 

 and porous, as well as muscular and prominent. The mouth is small, the lips 

 thick, hard, and smooth without cirri. There are about forty -three scales along 

 the lateral line, and the lower lobe of the caudal is longer than the upper. 

 The fin rays are, 



D.12: P.17: V.9 : A.7 : C.^g- 



TPie colour above is dark bluish, softened off on the sides to the lateral 

 line, below which it is white. The scales are lanceolate at the apex, and their 

 structure is nearly uniform at both extremities. 



The intestines are of great length, equal at least to those of G. isuriis ; 

 the liver is very obscurely developed, and distributed in minute detached 

 lobes in various parts of the abdomen. 



X.— Cyprinus boga, Buch. P. G. t. 28, f. 80. 

 Cyprinus a?'ha, id. CyprinKS pangiisia, id. 



The two first are chiefly distinguished from each other by the structure 

 of the lower lip. Of Cyprinus boga, Buchanan in one place says, labeo hiferiore 

 crenato^"^' and in another, that the under lip is indented on the edge.f Of 

 Cyprinus arim he says in one place, labeo i^iferiore refiexo, integerrimo ; 

 rostro Icevi ; in another place he observes of the same species, that the under lip 

 is reflected on the edge, and omits any allusion to a peculiarity of the nose, 

 further than that it is supplied with large pores, but he also remarks this 

 of Cyprinus boga. Were I to detail the attempts I have made to distin- 

 guish these two species with all the fishes of Bengal that I have been able to 



* Fisc. Gang. 386. t Op. Cit. 28G. 



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