438 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Genus Rasbora Bleeker. 



31. Rasbora daniconia (Hamilton-Buchanan). 



No. 80490-/, C. M. A few specimens from the river near Colombo. 



Genus Amblypharyngodon Bleeker. 



32. Amblypharyngodon grandisquamis Jordan & Starks, sp. nov. 

 (Plate XLIV.) 



No. 8050c, C. M., type; 8o5ia-c, paratypes. 



Dorsal rays 9 (counting first short ray); anal lays 7; scales 45; head 

 somewhat more than three to three and one-half times in body; depth 

 three to three and one-third times in the length. Body deep, sometimes 

 elevated at dorsal base, slightly gibbous at nape. Eye equal to length 

 of snout, four times in head; jaws equal, the lower very slightly pro- 

 truding. Lower jaw with a thin sharp edge, produced in a blunt 

 scallop at the symphysis, which fits into a concavity in the edge of the 

 upper jaw. 



Pharyngeal teeth 5-3-1 + 1-3-5; the outer series small and the two 

 end ones smallest and pointed; the middle series much larger, the inner 

 largest of all. The length of the grinding surface equal to twice that 

 of a tooth of the outer series and once and one-half that of the middle 

 series. All but the two end teeth of the outer series have an elliptical 

 grinding surface with four cross-ridges. 



Front of dorsal opposite base of ventral, or very slightly behind, 

 considerably nearer snout than base of caudal. Length of pectoral 

 equal to length of head without snout, or varying to length of head 

 from middle of eye. Pectoral not nearly reaching to ventral base; 

 ventral reaching barely to vent. Caudal deeply forked; longest rays 

 as long as head. Lateral line present on seven or eight anterior scales 

 only. 



Color in alcohol silvery, dusky above, growing lighter below; dusky 

 streak from middle of caudal base to upper end of gill-opening, growing 

 smaller and less distinct anteriorly; below it traces of a silver streak; 

 fins all colorless. 



The type and largest specimen is four inches in length, and was col- 

 lected in the river at Colombo. It is in the Carnegie Museum at 

 Pittsburgh. Several slightly smaller paratypes were collected. 



This species is closest to A mblypharytigodon melettinus, but is deeper 

 and has much larger scales. 



