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INDIAN CYPRINID.5;. 



ApalopterineB. 



II. — PSILORHYNCHUS VARIEGATUS. 

 t. 50. f. 2. 



Cyp. halitora, Buch. Op. Cit. 348. 

 Stolephorus halitora^ id. Coll. 



The following characters derived from the Assam specimen, differ 

 little from those given by Buchanan, except that the rays of the pectorals 

 are seventeen in each fin, instead of twelve as stated by Buchanan v/ith 

 doubt. The colours are, 



Silvery below, above spotted; one row of cloud-like spots along the back, 

 and another on each side ; thirty-three scales along the lateral line, and about 

 eight across the body from the base of the ventrals to the dorsum ; three 

 bars on the caudal. The fin rays are, 



D.IO : P.17: V.9 : A.7: C.18. 



Stomach hard and round, intestines small, and about half the length of the 

 body. 



Habit. — Rapids at the foot of mountains. 



IV.— Gen. COBITIS. Lin. 



The Loaches are very numerous in India ; Buchanan describes thirteen 

 species, and Mr. Griffith's and my own collection in Assam make us acquainted 

 with seven more. 



The caudal fin appears to afford the only natural character by which they 

 may be separated; of this I have taken advantage, and find that in addition to 

 the entire caudal, the colours of the true Loaches consist of different shades 

 between brown and yellow, more rarely green ; but Avhatever the colour may 

 be, it is usually disposed in dots accumulated in clusters or nebulae on the 



