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Erethistes asperus (M'Clelland). 

 Exostoma vinciguerrae, Regan. 

 Pseudecheneis sulcatus (M'Clelland). 



Division CYPRINOIDEA. 

 Family Cobitidae. 

 Aborichthys kempt, Chaudhuri. 

 Nemacheilus hotia (Hamilton Buchanan). 



Family Cyprinidae. 

 Sub-family CyprININAE. 

 Semiplotus cirrhosus , Chaudhuri, sp. nov. 

 Barhus stoliczkanus, Day. 



Sub-family Rasborinae. 

 Danio aequipinnaius (M'Clelland). 



Sub-order PERCESOCES. 

 Family Ophicephai^idae. 

 Channa burmanica, Chaudhuri, sp. nov. 



Sub-order ACANTHOPTERYGII. 

 Division PERCIFORMES. 

 Family Nandidae. 

 Badis badis (Hamilton Buchanan). 



Description of species. 



Genus Amblyceps, Blyth. 



Amblyceps murray-stuarti, sp. nov. 



(Plate XXn, figs. I, la, ib.) 



The family Sisoridae^ consists of small cat-fishes found in 

 swift mountain streams in Northern India, Burma, Tibet and 

 China. In most of the genera (e.g. Pseudecheneis, etc.) a sucking- 

 disk, made up of folds or plates of skin, is formed on the region of 

 the chest. The disk enables these fishes to resist the force of the 

 water. In some genera plates or lobes of skin about the mouth 

 serve the purpose of a sucking organ. The following Indian genera 

 are included in this family : — 



Amblyceps, Olyra, Akysis, Chimarrichthys , Exostoma, Parex- 



1 Jordan, A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Vol. II, p. 184. 



