1920.] S. L. HoRA : Indian Homalopteridae. 205 



Calicut-Vayitri Road, at mile 29, at an altitude of 500 ft. ; one 

 from a branch of Kabani River below Rasselas Estate, Manan- 

 tody, at an altitude of about 2,350 ft. ; 4 specimens in a stream 

 flowing through a swamp, Wentworth Estate, Cherrambadi, at an 

 altitude of 2,750 ft. in the Nilgiris district, and one specimen in a 

 stream on the Nellimunda Estate at an altitude of 1,800 ft. in the 

 Malabar district. 



The following are the measurements (in millimetres) of the 

 type-specimen, which is an adult female : — 



Total length including caudal 

 Length of caudal 

 Greatest depth of body ... 

 Length of head 

 Width of head ... 



Length of snout 

 Diameter of eye 

 Interobital width 

 Length of caudal peduncle 

 Depth of caudal peduncle 

 Longest ray of dorsal 

 Longest ray of anal 

 Length of pectoral 



74 mm. 



12 ,, 



8-2 ,, 

 12 



10 ,, 



- 7 



2-4 .. 



4-8 ,. 



IO-5 ,, 



5-2 M 



11-5 n 



7-8 ., 



14-2 M 



Bhavania australis (Jerdon). 

 (Plate X, figs. 4—6; pi. XI, fig. 8.) 



184.9. Platycara australis, Jerdon, Madi'. Jour. Sci. Lit. p. .^;;3. 

 1867. Homaloptera briicei, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 348. 

 l8n8. Homaloptera briicei, Giinther, Cat. Fish., VI L p. 340. 

 1878. Homaloptera briicei (in part), Day, Fishes of India, H, p. 525. 

 1889. Homaloptera brucei (in part), Dav, Fauna Br. Ind., Fish I, p. 

 243- 



I have examined only young individuals of this species. 

 I do not, therefore, attempt to describe it in detail. The fish is 

 very much like the other species, B. annandalci , from which it 

 differs in having a longer and narrower head, in having continuous 

 upper and lower lips, in the absence of a pair of papillae on the 

 lower lip and in the position of the mouth, which is near the 

 anterior end of the snout in such a position that the barbels are 

 seen even from the dorsal surface. 



The mouth is a semicircular opening surrounded by uninter- 

 rupted thick lips. There are three pairs of barbels, two pairs ros- 

 tral and one maxillary. The rostral barbels are situated close 

 together at the anterior end of the snout, the maxillary pair being 

 a short distance anterior to the angle of the mouth. The muscu- 

 lature for converting the mouth into a suctorial disc is very much 

 like that of B. annandalei, but the papillae are not well developed. 



For a detailed description Daj^'s Monograph of Indian Cypri- 

 nidae {op. cit. 1867) may be consulted under the name Homalop- 

 iera brucei. 



Young individuals were collected by Captain Sewell in October, 

 IQ19, at the following localities : — 



(i) Two specimens in a stream at Nadgani at ati altitude of 

 2,500 ft. in the Nilgiri district. 



