igiQ.] N. Annandale : Bombay Streams Fauna. 137 



body. The first dorsal ray is stout and bony but short, the 

 second, which is also bony, tapers to a fine point and is about | as 

 long as the head ; it is quite smooth. The anterior root of 

 this fin lies immediately above that of the ventrals. The pecto- 

 rals are particularly small, their length is between f and f that of 

 the head. The ventrals, from which they are widely separated, 

 are considerably shorter ; their tips do not quite reach the vent. 

 The anal is distinctly pedunculate. The caudal peduncle is well 

 differentiated but less than twice as long as deep ; it is strongly 

 compressed. The caudal fin is short : its upper lobe is distinctly 

 sharper and more produced than the lower lobe. The scales are 

 verj- large ; sometimes notched in front. Their exposed parts are 

 marked with delicate longitudinal striae. The lateral line is 

 rather obscure. 



The only sp-ecimen of this fish that I have seen was sent from 

 Gauhati on the Brahmaputra by Mr. T. R. Phookun. It is 115 

 cm. long and is preserved stuffed, its number in our register being 

 F 9654/ r. 



Barbus jerdoni, Day, 

 (Plate II, fig. 4, var. maciveri, nov.). 



1889. Barbus jerdoiii, Day, op. cit., p. 312. 

 1889. Barbus dobsoni, id ., ibid. 



As Day himself suggests in his Fishes of India (p. 568), the 

 two forms included in the above synonymy are merely varieties or 

 local races of the same species. The only constant difference 

 that I can find between the specimens in his own collection are 

 that the body is considerably deeper in B. dobsoni than in B. jerdoni 

 and that there are more scales below the lateral line in the former. 

 Mr. Mclver has sent me specimens from the Kistna River near 

 Satara that represent a third variety, which has the following 

 differential characters :— 



D. 13 (4/9). A. 8 (3/5)- L. I. 31-33. Iv. tr. 5^/3^. 



Depth of body 3f to 4 times in total length ; length of head 

 about 51 times in total length ; diameter of eyes 3-|- times in length 

 of head. The body is brownish above and the caudal, dorsal anci 

 anal fins are tipped with black. The specimens I have examined 

 are small (not more than 151 mm. long), but Mr. Mclver tells me 

 that the form attains a weight of 20 to 25 lbs. I propose for it 

 the name var. maciveri. The Maharatta name at Satara is purgi] 

 Mr. Mclver refers to the fish as the " Carnatic Carp of the 

 Krishna." 



Type-specimen of variety. — F 9576/1, Zool. Survey of India 

 [Ind. Mus ). 



Family Ophiocephaudae. 

 Ophicephalus gachua, Ham. Buch. 



This widely distributed species, of which specimens were 

 taken in the river at Medha and in artificial ponds at Khandalla, 



