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inches long, taken with a casting-net in the Mahaweli River at Kandy 

 by Professor Fisher. The type is in the collection of the Carnegie 

 Museum and the paratype in Stanford University. 



L. fisheri is nearest the species called Diplocheilus erythropterus by 

 Bleeker, but differs in having a larger head, the lower lip not delicately 

 fringed (as shown in Bleeker's plate) and the outline of the dorsal 

 fin not broadly concave. 



27. Labeo dussumieri (Cuvier & Valenciennes ). 



No. 8045a, C. M. Two small specimens from the river at Colombo. 

 The silvery streak along each series of scales is conspicuous. A blotch 

 on each side of the caudal peduncle, which is black in one specimen and 

 only faintly dusky in the other. Cuvier's plate does not indicate 

 the blotch. 



28. Labeo dorsalis (Jerdon). 



No. 8046a-/, C. M. Several specimens taken in the river at Col- 

 ombo. They do not show the small blackish spot on the dorsal base 

 as described by Gunther, but they agree in this respect as well as 

 others with the picture published by Day (Fishes of India, Plate 

 CXLII, fig. 2). 



Genus Labeobarbus Rijppell. 



29. Labeobarbus tor (Hamilton-Buchanan). 



No. 8047a, C. M. Two large specimens were collected in the 

 Mahaweli river at Kandy. The largest, thirteen and one-half inches 

 long, has the third osseous dorsal ray very much less than the length 

 of the head. In the smaller one, which is ten and one-half inches long, 

 the entire length of the ray, including the soft portion, is as long as the 

 head. Gunther describes the stiff portion as being as long as the head, 

 and Bleeker's plate (in which the soft portion does not show) has the 

 entire ray longer than the head. 



Genus Cyclocheilichthys Bleeker. 



30. Cyclocheilichthys pinnauratus (Day). 



No. 8o48a-c, CM. A few specimens collected in the river at 

 Colombo. 



The large dark spot on the caudal peduncle seems to be variable. 

 In some examples it is black and rather sharply defined; on others it is 

 dusky and diffused. 



ANN. CARN. MUS., XI, 29, OCT. 3I, I917. 



