48 Recorrls of ihe Indian Mii.uinn. [VoL. XIT, 



is not peculiar to the lake but is widely distributed in the Southern Shan 

 States. It is common in the streams of the He-Ho basin (3,800 ft.) and 

 1 have recently received a specimen from Mr. G. C. B. Sterling, who 

 obtained it from the market at Kentung more than 300 miles east of 

 the lake. Mr. A. G. Gahen has also sent me specimens from Loilem in 

 the Mong Sit State. 



I have examined a large series of specimens, in which the number of 

 the lateral scales varies from 25 to 30 |^. In the Inle bazaars I saw 

 few individuals more than about a foot in length, and the fishermen 

 told me that the largest they ever caught — and those rarely — weighed 

 about 7 lbs. In life the back and sides of the head are of a greenish 

 bronze colour becoming gradually paler below. The dorsal and caudal 

 fins are greenish, the other fins and the lips reddish. 



The Carp is perhaps the most abundant and certainly one of the most 

 esteemed fish in the bazaars at Fort Stedman, Nan-Pan, and Yawnghwe. 

 No attempt seems to have been made to cultivate it artificially and, if 

 the Intha fishermen can be beheved, the local race has not the remarkable 

 vitality of the Chinese and European forms. The fish is caught by 

 spearing, in drift nets and in pecuhar weed-trawls consisting of a bag- 

 shaped net attached to a large triangular frame of bamboo. 



Sawbwa, gen. nov. 



The genus consists of small Cyprininac resembling the Pimtius 

 section of Barbus but totally devoid of scales and with a reduced 

 pharyngeal dentition. 



The form is compressed but not elevated ; the abdomen is not tren- 

 chant ; the dorsal profile is convex. The head is of moderate size, the 

 eye large, the mouth small, terminal and oblique, the upper jaw 

 protrusible ; there are no barbels. The dorsal and anal fins are short, 

 having not more than 7 branched rays each ; the dorsal has a toothed 

 bony spine ; the anterior part of the dorsal is in front of the anal. The 

 pharyngeal teeth are few in number (4 in the type -species) and arranged 

 uniserially. 



Type-species. — Saivhwa resplendens, sp. nov. 



Sawbwa resplendens, sp. nov. 

 (Plate 11, fig. 3; pi. IV, fig. 15.) 



B. 111. D. 9-10 (2-8/7). P. 7. V. 7. A. 7(2/5), C. 18. 



The greatest depth of the body is i of the total length, that of the 

 caudal peduncle about tV ; ^^^e length of the head I, that of the 

 caudal fin slightly less. The eye is at least as long as the snout, 

 its diameter is equal to that of the interorbital space. The lateral 

 line is obscure. The anterior border of the dorsal fin is considerably 

 nearer the base of the caudal fin than the tip of the snout ; it is 

 slightly in front of the point midway between the base of the ventral 

 and the anterior border of the anal. The pectoral is rather small and 

 does not extend back to the base of the ventral ; the tip of the 

 ventral extends back as far as the vent. The posterior border of th^ 



