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Attention may here be directed t<i the fact that in 1930 and later in 1931 Tchang'' 

 recorded a species under the name Labco diplostoimis Heckel from Kiating in the Szechwan 

 Province in China. In 1932 Rendahl" reported the same fish from Clningking in the said 

 Province, Imt douhted its identity with Ileclxel's species, in view of tlie differences in the 

 form of tlie mouth, body proportions, squamation, etc. In 1934 Kimura' recorded the form 

 from Yangtze-kiang and definitely assigned it to a new species, "Labco {\'aricorli\iicluis) 

 Rciiddlili.'' 



As Labco diplostoiiiits presents variations in different body proportions, lengtli of the 

 fins, etc., I give below tlie measurements of the two specimens under report: 



Mcasiirciiiciils in iiiilliiiictrcs 



Total length without caudal 165.0 140.0 



Length of head 37.0 32.0 



Width of head 24.0 20.0 



Height of head 28.0 23.0 



Diameter of eye 6.0 6.0 



Length of snout 13.0 12.0 



Interorbital width 14.0 12.0 



Deptli of body 40.0 30.0 



Longest ray of dorsal 33.0 31.0 



Longest ray of anal 25.0 22.0 



Length of pectoral 31.0 26.0 



Length of ventral 27.0 23.0 



Length of caudal 38.0 



Least height of caudal peduncle 19.0 15.0 



Genus Crossnchilns \'an Hasselt (1823) 



Crossocliilus piiniabciisis Mukerji 



1934. Crnssochiliis laliits piiiiiabciisis. Muk-erji, Jotirii. Bombay. Nat. Hist. Soc, XXXVIl, p. 53, 

 fig. 7. 



broni an examination of large series of specimens of "Crossocliilii.': hiliiis" from dif- 

 ferent parts of India and Uurnia, preserved in tlie collections of the Indian Museum, I 

 came to the conclusion that tlie species is a comjiosite one and that the dwarf form from 

 the Punjab and I5a1ucbistan, at any rate, sliould be regarded as distinct from the typical 

 form from iKirtbcni I'lengal. At that time 1 had no specimens at mv disposal from the 

 Kashmir waters for comparison with the subspecies pnnjabcnsis and it was, therefore, not 

 possible to ju^lge the affinitives of the former with the latter. On an e.\aminati(in of the 

 ten specimens collected by the "N'ale North India b'.xpedition in March-May, 1''32, from 

 parts of Kashmir, 1 tind that in all essential char.acters they correspond to the form piDiju- 

 bcnsi.'; whicli 1 now consider on re-e\aniinatioii to be sufficiently distinct Iroin C'. hitiiis lo 

 merit specific rank. 



"^^TchaiiR, I..: Sim-nsUi, I, No. 7, pp. 87-94 (1930); Bull. Pan. Mew. In.':!. Biol.. II, Ni>. 11, p. 227 (1931). 



"Rendahl, II.: Arl,iv. /. Zoologi, XXIV (A), No. 16, pp. 74-79 (1932). 



"Kimura, S. : Journ. .Shmiglmi .S"ci'. huit.. Sec. 3, I, pi), 125-12S, pi. iii. fiR. 2 (1934). 



