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INDIAN CYPRINID^. 



Sarcoborince. 



II.— Gen. ABRAMIS, Cuv. 



Body short and elevated, a short dorsal is placed opposite to the ventrals : 

 anal long, colours plain. 



The following is the only species yet found in India. 



Cyprinus cotis, Buch. 



Back raised suddenly from the nape to a salient point, behind which the 

 dorsal is placed ; in front of the first ray of the dorsal there is a small dark 

 spot, but all the rest of the body is silvery. The fin rays are, 



D.IO : P.13 : V.IO : A.32 : C.19. 



Buchanan makes them, 



D.IO : P.16 : V.12 : A.36 : C.19. 

 Until it be shewn that we have described different species, which I do not 

 think we have, the discrepancy may be supposed to have arisen from the diffi- 

 culty of counting the fin rays. 



The intestine is continuous with a small elongated stomach, and the 

 whole tube scarcely exceeds the entire length of the fish, including the head 

 and caudal 



III.— Gen. PERILAMPUS, J. M. 



The Breams, as defined in the Regne Animal, are Cyprinidce that have 

 neither spines nor cirri, their dorsal is short and placed behind the ventrals, 

 and their anal is long. This was quite sufficient to embrace the few species 

 that were known at the time ; for although several editions of the zoological 

 system of Cuvier appeared subsequently to the publication of the Gangetic 

 Fishes, in which many of the species composing the genus Perilampus are 

 described, yet the retention of Buchanan's drawings in India not only deprived 



