Gonorliijnchus. INDIAN CYPRINIDiE. 375 



Thirty-five scales along the lateral line, and seven rows from the base of the 

 ventrals to the dorsum. The following may perhaps be regarded as a dif- 

 ferent species, 



VIII. — GONORHYNCHUS CAUDATUS, J. M. 



Snout warty, porous, and divided by a horizontal fissure, without cirri ; a 

 black spot at the base of the caudal ; lower lobe of the caudal longer than 

 the upper ; thirty -four scales along the lateral line, and eight rows from the 

 base of the ventrals to the dorsum. This species, if it may be so called, 

 corresponds in other respects with G, bimaculatus. It was found by Mr. 

 Griffith in the Mishmee mountains. 



IX. — GoNORHYNCHUS FIMBRIATUS, J. M. 



t. 43, f. 3. i3 



Cyprinus sada, Buch. 



This species is distinguished by four cirri shorter than the head, the lateral 

 line is placed high on the sides, and the dorsal fin anterior to the middle of the 

 back. The fin rays are, 



D.13 : P.— : V.9 : A.7 : C. 



Colour green above, and silvery below. This would seem to be an alpine 

 form although it wants the sub-maxillary sucker, and was found by Buchanan 

 in the Bramaputra in Lower Assam. I have not met with it, and can therefore 

 add nothing to the information given regarding it in the Gangetic Fishes. 



To this group must also be added Cijprinus gotyla, Gray, Hardwicke's 

 Illustrations, t. 5, f. 3, said to have been found in the mountains of India. In 

 the synopsis I have stated what seem to be its distinguishing characters. 

 Since the paper has gone thus far through the press, the first volume of l\Ir. 

 Swainson's work on the Natural History of Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles, 



