412 INDIAN CYPRINIDiE. Sarcohorince. 



The stomach is large and muscular, about one-third of the length of the body, 

 with its pyloric reflected and terminating in one large intestine a little longer 

 than the body, or about twice the length of the stomach. 



Cuvier has indicated a place for this species among the Barbels, but as 

 we have no instance of Barbels having longer anal than dorsal fins, I have no 

 hesitation in placing it with the Leuciscs, notwithstanding its cirri. In this 

 I am guided equally by its peculiarly bright colours, its short alimentary 

 canal, and comparatively large anal. Its markings however denote an approxi- 

 mation to the Opsarions. I may further remark, that Cypt'inus culbasu, Buch. 

 Cyprinus rohita, id., Cyprinus gonius, id., and Cyprinus danico7iius, id., are 

 also indicated in the Regne Animal as Barbels. The two first are Cirrhins, 

 the third a Labeo, and the last a Leucisc. 



XII.-— Leuciscus elingulatus, J. M 

 t. 57. f. 4. 



The tongue is variously developed in the Leuciscus, according as the 

 habits of the species approach to those of the Perilamps, in which it is 

 usually large and rugose ; or to those of the Opsarions, in which it is almost 

 absent ; or to those of PcBonomince, in which it is usually cartilaginous. In 

 this species, however, which is a native of mountain streams at Simla, where 

 it was found by Dr. Macleod, the tongue is almost quite absent. 



It was first described in the seventh volume of the Journal of this Society, 

 from a single specimen, as a Perilamp ; but its form though stout and short, 

 is that of a Leucisc. The head and fore part of the body deep ; brachial plates 

 slightly exposed behind the opercula ; snout round, and terminates abruptly 

 in front of the eyes ; forty-six scales are ranged along the lateral line, and 

 eleven in an oblique row from the base of the ventrals to the dorsum ; 



