362 INDIAN CYPRINIDiE. Pceonominee. 



collect in four years before me, I should only contribute to the embarrassment 

 of the question. With regard to the third species, Cyprinus pangusia, which 

 according to Buchanan is distinguished by fourteen rays in the dorsal fin, 

 while in each of the former varieties that fin contains only twelve rays, it 

 certainly does appear at first sight to rest on a better footing ; especially as all 

 the species of this group that are without cirri, present a hard prominent snout, 

 and have only twelve rays in the dorsal. I am acquainted however with a 

 variety which for a long time I considered to be Cyp?'inus pangusia, but on 

 re-examination I found two rudimental cirri, and that the rays of the dorsal 

 fin are strictly fifteen, thus making it correspond with the Rewah, a variety 

 of Cyptinus mrigala. 



When we add to these observations the testimony of Buchanan himself, 

 that the three species nearly resemble each other, and compare the striking 

 resemblance that exists between the figure of Cyprinus hoga, Pise. Gang. t. 28, 

 f. 80, and Cyprinus pcmgusia, t. 42, f. 1, we cannot hesitate in the present 

 state of the question to regard them as one and the same species. Still, how- 

 ever, we ought not to forget the distinctions Buchanan has pointed out, and 

 which have been preserved in the synopsis. The following variety may how- 

 ever be distinct from Cyprinus hoga, and the drawing of it in Buchanan's 

 collection is marked Cijprinus pangusia, although I consider it to be the fish 

 he has described as Cyprinus ari%a. 



Cyprinus pangusia, Buch. 

 t. 42, f. 1. i3. 



The length of the head is equal to the depth of the body, and to a third 

 of the length, exclusive of the head and caudal. 



The head is compressed rather more than the body, so as to render it 

 narrow between the eyes. The snout is narrow, but rough, porous, prominent, 

 and soft, without being loose or pendulous ; the under jaw is short and thin, 

 so as to be in a great measure concealed by the snout when the mouth is 



