1919. | N. ANNANDALE: Fish from India and Persia. Gg 
undivided rays are weak. The pectorals are as long or very near- 
ly as long as the head, pointed and not much expanded. The 
ventrals, the anal and the two lobes of the caudal are also elon- 
gate and pointed. The scales are rather small. There are 4} 
between the lateral line and the dorsal and 34 between the former 
and the ventral. ‘The number in the lateral line is the same as in 
other Indian species of the group. 
The colour is dark olivaceous without definite markings. The 
ventral surface is yellowish-white The fins are infuscated, but the 
paired ones have a pale border. 
This is the largest species of the genus with which I am 
acquainted. The type-specimen is 216 mm. long and the local 
fishermen state that individuals one cubit long are sometimes 
captured. 
Type-specimen, No. 2725 F, Z.S.I. (Ind. Mus.). 
Distribution.—1 have seen this species only from the gorge of 
the Bhavani River at the base of the Nilgiris, where it was taken 
with D. jervdont in August. I have examined six specimens. 
D. elegans is related to D. gravely: from Burma, but the form 
is more elongate, the snout is tuberculate and there are considerable 
differences in the structure of the mental disk. From D. platy- 
cephalus, Rao it is distinguished by its more elongate form and 
more convex head. D. ceylonensis (Bleeker)! seems to be an 
allied species. 
ADDENDUM. 
The True Cyprinus lamta of Buchanan. 
Dr. B. L. Chaudhuri has kindly drawn my attention to a 
quotation from Buchanan’s manuscript notes which casts some 
light, in conjunction with the same author’s original figure of 
‘‘Cyprinus godiyari,’’ on the identity of his Cyprinus lamta. 
This quotation will be found on page 81 of Day’s volume on 
the fisheries and botany of Bengal in Hunter’s Statistical Account 
of Bengal (1876). He says, quoting Buchanan, ‘‘ the Godiydéri 
is another small Cyprinus found in the same places,” 7z.e. in small 
streams among rocks in the Bhagalpur district ; while in a foot- 
note to the name Godtyarzt he adds, apparently on his own authority, 
“Cyprinus lamta, Ham. Buch. Fish. Ganges, p. 343, and MS. 
drawings No. 105, as Cyprinus godiyart.”’ 
Buchanan’s MS. drawing No. 105 is still in the possession of 
the Asiatic Society of Bengal. It comprises three figures, one a 
finished coloured drawing* of the whole fish, the others outlines of 
the dorsal view and of the ventral surface of the head. These 
figures represent a species unknown to me but apparently allied to 
1 Garra (Garra) ceylonensis, Bleeker, Versl. en Meded. Afd. Natuurk. XV, 
p- 239 (1863). 
2 McClelland gives a rather poor reproduction (sufficiently accurate in essen- 
tials) of this drawing in Asiatic Researches XIX, pl. xliii, fig. 2 (18309). 
