VIII. NOTES ON CYPRINIDAE FROM TIBET 

 AND THE CHUMBI VALLEY, WITH A 

 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPE- 

 CIES OF GY M NOCY PRI S. 



Bv F. H. Stewart, M.A., D.Sc, M.B., Captain, Indian 

 Medical Service. 



I. Schizopygopsis stoliczkae, Steind., and Schizopygopsis 

 severzovi, Herz. 



1. Source of recent collection. Stations with their altitude. 



2. Source of older collections in Indian Museum. 



3. Literature. 



4. Geographical range. General characters of country inha- 



bited. 



5. Is the separation of the two species 5. stoliczkae and 



S. sever zovi justified ? 



(i) Five points of distinction by means of which the 

 two species are separated from each other by 

 Herzenstein and Alcock. 



(ii) The specimens of which measurements are avail- 

 able divided into 11 groups. 



(iii) Analysis of the five points of distinction in 8 of 

 the groups. 



(iv) Variation in the relative size of the head to the 

 body. 



6. Coloration. 



7. Relative frequency of this and of other species of fish in 



the district under consideration. 



8. Breeding and migration, 

 g. Summary. 



I. Schizopygopsis stoliczkae, StQind., has been obtained lately 

 from various localities between the Chumbi valley and the town 

 of Gyantse in the Tibetan province of Tsang. I am indebted to 

 Captain Kennedy, I.M.S., for the greater number of the speci- 

 mens, and his collection is so much the more valuable in that it 

 was made in the course of journeys between Chumbi and Gyantse, 

 and contains specimens from a series of localities on both the 

 south and the north faces of the Himalaya, and also from the im- 

 mediate neighbourhood of the watershed (the Tang-la). Mr. F. M. 

 Bailey, lately British Trade Agent at Gyantse, also kindly sent me 



