410 INDIAN CYPRINIDiE. Sarcoborince . 



The colour is dark bluish along the back, with a dark streak across the 

 dorsal fin, which with the anal and caudal are tipt with black ; the ventrals are 

 small, and rounded. Mr. Griffith states that this species is common in the 

 rapids of the Bramaputra, and most voracious in its appetite for flies. 



IX. — Leuciscus morar, 



Cyprimis morar, Buch. 



Op. Cit. PI. 31. f. 75. 



Cyprinus hukrangi, id. Coll. 



The mouth is small, placed behind a prominent and narrow snout. Back 

 green, sides entirely white, and silvery ; scales large and covered with a copious 

 pearly pigment. About forty scales along the lateral line, and nine rows from 

 the base of the ventrals to the dorsum. The lower lobe of the caudal longer 

 than the upper ; suborbitar plates extend forward to the corners of the mouth ; 

 snout fleshy and prominent. The fin rays are, 



D.IO : P.15 : V.8 : A.12 : C.20. 



This species is very abundant in the Bramaputra, is about three or four inches 

 in length, and as Buchanan justly observes, is high flavoured and much sought 

 after as a delicacy ; stomach and intestine form a thick fleshy canal equal to 

 the entire length of the body, inclusive of the head and caudal. In addition 

 to it, Buchanan has figured another variety, Bukrangi, in which the lobes 

 of the caudal appear to be less divided, and the scales marked with slight 

 stricE in the drawing, and the membrane of the fins dotted, and a slight 

 tinge of yellow on the lower parts of the body. I have not seen this species, 

 nor can I find it described in the Gangetic Fishes. 



