180 BULLETIN 188, UNITED STATES NATIONAL mUSEUM 



single specimen, 5.2 cm. long, in the Deignan collection was taken in 

 the gorge of the Mecliem by A. R. Buchanan and P. D. Harrisson in 

 July 1035. Ditt'erences from the type are explainable by diti'erence in 

 size; lateral line scales 29, scales in transverse series to base of ventral 

 fin 5.5-1-2.5 or 3, predorsal scales 10, circumpeduncular scales 14; 

 pectorals reaching to ventrals; barbels equal to or slightly longer 

 than eye, tip of dorsal and tips of caudal lobes blackish. The re- 

 cording of the pharyngeal teeth in the type as 5, 3, that is, in two 

 rows, indicates a defect or an abnormality, as the teeth in this genus 

 are normally triserial. 



PUNTIUS FAUCIS, new species • 



Figure 30 



Description. — Both head and body strongly compressed; depth 3.4 

 in standard length; least depth of caudal peduncle about 2 in head 

 and 1.5 in its length; head equal to depth of body; eye 3 in head, 

 equal to interorbital space, and slightly more than snout; mouth 

 small, oblique, lower jaw shorter, maxillary reaching opposite nos- 

 trils; rostral and maxillary barbels subequal and about diameter of 

 eye. 



Figure 30. — Puntius faucis, new species: Type (U.S.N.M. 119497). Drawn by 

 Mrs. Alice C. Mullen. 



Squamation : Scales in lateral line 33, in transverse series 5.5-1-3.5, 

 between lateral line and base of ventral fin 2.5, predorsal 12, circum- 

 peduncular 14. 



Fins: Dorsal rays iii, 8, last simple ray osseus and nondenticulated ; 

 first branched ray somewhat shorter than head; origin of dorsal a 

 little closer to base of caudal than to tip of snout, over tenth scale of 

 lateral line; caudal longer than head, deeply forked, lobes pointed; 

 anal rays iii, 5; ventrals not reaching anal opening; pectorals slightly 

 longer than ventrals, not reaching ventral base, 0.75 head. 



