124 Records of the Indian Museum. [VWorsve 
Discognathus lamta and one imperfect specimen of Cyprinodon 
blanfordii. All the specimens are Cyprinidee and belong to the 
genera Scaphiodon, Cyprinodon and Discognathus. ‘The specimens 
of Scaphiodon differ from those previously described and are here 
recorded as a new species. 
Scaphiodon baluchiorum, sp. nov. (Pl. vi, fig. I.) 
D3 6-10; V- 8; Av 8-0, P1600, D4 37-40. i temo oe 
Length of head 54 times and height of body 44 times in total 
length (including the caudal fin). Snout obtuse, covered with 
glandular pores. Diameter of eye 34 times in length of head. 
Interorbital width 2} times in length of head. Mouth inferior, 
upper jaw the longer. 
Barbels, a maxillary pair, about half the length of the eye. 
Dorsal fin commencing slightly before ventrals, its third undivided 
tay osseous and posteriorly serrated in its lower half. Height of 
dorsal fin about 3 that of body. Pectoral shorter than head. 
Well-marked tubercles on rays of anal fin occasionally present 
(absent in the specimen figured). Caudal forked, upper lobe the 
longer. 
Scales regularly arranged, in this respect differing from S. 
tvvegularts (Day) ; on lower surface of body small and rudimentary. 
Dorsal and lateral scales with fine black dots, especially on lateral 
surface of body. 
Colour (in spirit) greyish above gradually fading to silvery. 
below. 
Localities.—Gishtigan (Bampusht); Kalagan, 3,500 feet; 
Baluchistan. 
Cyprinodon blanfordi, sp. nov. (Pl. vi, fig. 3.) 
a: 
Deo, Vi5; AlOe Pi 86, Caza ea slevtieines 
Height of body 34 times, length of head 3°8 times, in total 
length inclusive of caudal. Snout obtuse, truncated, mandible 
directed vertically upwards. Diameter of eye twice length of snout 
and one-third length of head. Interorbital space slightly wider 
than diameter of eye. 
Origin of dorsal fin much further from tip of snout than from 
root of caudal. First anal ray below fourth dorsal. 
Colour.—Body dark brown above fading to pale yellow below. 
Fins colourless. Operculum and head below eyes with minute 
black spots. A series of black spots more or less longitudinally 
arranged along sides of body, with a larger lozenge-shaped spot 
near root of tail. In these specimens, which have been in spirit 
for over 30 years (although to some extent protected from the 
light, owing to their being wrapped up in linen). the colour must 
necessarily have changed considerably. 
Locality.—East of Shiraz, South Persia (Reg. Nos. 9416—18). 
