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The intestine is of considerable length, narrow with many convolutions. In specimens 

 over 100 mm. in length, the intestine is about 6 times as long as the body excluding the 

 caudal fin, while in smaller specimens it is about 6.5 times the same length. The gut contents 

 include lumps of slime and algae mixed with sand particles, bits of leaves and twigs. 



Parasites: The specimens obtained by the Yale North India Expedition are heavily 

 infected with Trematode parasites the cysts of which appear as small black nodules all over 

 the body and the fins. In a gravid female, 108 mm. long, six specimens of a species of an 

 Acanthocephalan worm have been found. 



Distribution: As far as I can judge, C. pimjabensis is distributed in the mountainous 

 rivers, streams and lakes in the Western Himalayan territory through Kashmir and the 

 Punjab along the North Western Frontier to Baluchistan in the Western territory. In the 

 Eastern sub-Himalayan and Burmo-Malayan territories the species is replaced by C. latins 

 (Ham. Buch.). 



Subfamily Schizothoracinac 

 Genus Schizothorax Heckel (1838)^ 

 Schizotlwrax labiatus (McClelland) 



1842. Racoma labiatus. McClelland, Catculta Jonrn. Nat. Ilisl., II, ]i. 578, pi. xv, fig. 1. 



1842. Schiznihorav Ritchicana, McClelland, Hiid., p. 580. 



1868. Racoma labiatus, Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., VII, ]>. lf>2 (footnote). 



1868. Schizolliora.v rilcliiauus, Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., VII, p. 162 (footnote). 



1877. Schizothorax Ritchianus, Day, Fish. India, p. 531 (footnote). 



1877. Schizothorax labiatus. Day, ibid., p. 532 (footnote). 



1934. Schizothorax labiatus. Mora, Rcc. Ind. Mus., XXXVI, pp. 292-297, figs. 2 and 3. 



The narrow, suljcylindrical body, the large and pi->intcd head, the well developed and 

 reflected posterior margin of the lower lip which is invariably triloljed and the sharp and 

 shovel-shaped lower jaw are some of the principal features of S. labiatus originally described 

 from the Kunar river near Jalallabad. Recently, Hora (o/>. cit.) published a detailed 

 account of this hitherto little-known species from a series of specimens obtained from the 

 Chitral Valley. He has shown that in the species the structures of the lower lip and the 

 air-bladder are considerably variable. Further, according to him .S". ritchicana McClelland, 

 a species descrilied also from Afghanistan, is synonymous with 5. labiatus. 



The Yale North India Expedition obtained a single specimen of the species in June, 

 1932, from the following locality: 



Upper Indus, Spitok, Ladak (Sta. L 17), 10,730 ft (260 mm.) 



" Just before this report went to tlie press. Dr. Yiianting T. Chu's paper on "Comparative studies on the 

 scales and on the pharj-npeals and their teeth in Chinese Cyprinids, with particular reference to taxonomy and 

 evolution" (Biol. Bull. St. John's Vniv., Shanghui, China, pp. 1-22S, pis. i-.xxx, No. 2, 1935) was available for 

 reference. In regard to the taxonomic positions of the genera {Schizothorax Heckel and Orcinns McClelland 

 the author has pointed out that according to Bleeker's restriction {Nat. Tijd. Dicrk, I, p. 196, 1863) the name 

 Scln::opygc Heckel should be used in place of "Schisolhora.v" of authors and Schizothorax Heckel should replace 

 the name Orcinns of McClelland. Although I thoroughly agree with this statement I am in favor, in view of the 

 general application, to conserve the names Schizothorax and Orcinns in tlieir hithertofore accepted sense. 



