436 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Family CYPRINID.F:. 

 Genus Labeo Cuvier. 



26. Labeo fisheri Jordan & Starks, sp. nov. (Plate XLIII.) 



No. 8044c, C. M. Type. 



Dorsal II, 11; anal II, 5; scales 40; pharyngeal teeth 5-4-2+2-4-5. 

 Head three and one-half to three and two-thirds times in body; depth 

 three and one-quarter times in the length. 



Head as wide as high; its height one and one-half times in its length. 

 Eye small, less than height of scales, seven times in head; front of 

 pupil at middle of head. Snout much swollen, overhanging the mouth. 

 A deep oblique groove running from maxillary groove upward and 

 forward, separating ofif a lateral lobe on each side of snout. Barbel 

 single on each side, its length less than that of eye (the ventral barbels 

 lost with age?). A thin, soft flap from snout projecting in front of 

 upper lip, its edge irregularly and firmly dentate. Mouth wide and 

 broadly curved; upper lip smooth and swollen; lower lip irregularly 

 scalloped behind, with a few irregular, fine cirrhi on its edge and a few 

 elongate papillae on its surface. Just inside of lips are flat roughened 

 projections arranged in irregular rows. Cutting ridge inside of lips 

 thin, continuous and movable. Conspicuous rough pores covering 

 top of head, cheeks, and opercles, while larger pores are just in front of 

 eye, and still larger ones on snout and lateral lobe, each with a rough, 

 bony papilla. Pharyngeal teeth forming a nearly continuous oblique 

 grinding surface, each tooth sharp on its outer edge. 



Dorsal outline straight across ends of rays, though first branched 

 ray is slightly produced, giving a very slight concave outline at front 

 of fin. First branched ray equal to length of snout and eye. An- 

 terior third of dorsal in front of origin of ventrals. Pectoral not 

 nearly reaching to ventral, nor ventral to anal. Anal sharp in front, 

 its posterior outline sub-vertical. Caudal deeply forked; its longest 

 rays as long as head, or longer. 



Scales in series running obliquely downward and forward from front 

 of dorsal to lateral line, seven and one-half; obliquely upward and 

 backward from front of ventral, five and one-half. 



Color in alcohol uniform slaty on back, growing lighter below; scales 

 slightly darker at base; under parts with red tinges; fins unmarked by 

 lines or spots; pectoral and ventral growing dusky towards end of rays. 



This species is represented by two specimens, fourteen and one-half 



