192 1. j S. L. HoRA : Fishes ol the genus Garra. 655 



The air-bladder is quite normal and is not much reduced. In 

 a specimen 97 cm. in length, the following are the measurements of 

 the bladder: — 



Length of anterior chamber . ... ii mm. 



,, po.sterior ,, . . .,22 mm, 



vSpecimens of this species were examined from the following 



localities : — 



He-Ho stream, S. Shan States ... N. Annandale... ... 3. 



Fort Stedman, Inle LaUe. S. Shan ,, ... ... 2. 



States. 



Garra nasutus (ilcClelland). 

 Plate XXIV, fig. 4. 



1838. Platycara nas'ita, McClelland, Jonrn. As. Soc. Bengal \'l\ (2), 



p. 947, pi. Iv, Kgs. 2, 2a and 2b. 



1839. Platycara nasiita. McClelland, Asiatic A'es. XIX, p. 300, pi. 



Ixvii, figs. 2. 

 1839. Gonorhynchiii caiidatiis, McClelland, ibid., p. 37_-,. 

 1868. Discognathtts nasutus, Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mtis. Fish. VII, p. 70. 

 1913. Discognatlius lamfa, Chaiidhuri, /?ec. Im!. Mus. \'III, p. 247. 



This species is known to me from one adult specimen from 

 the Abor Hills and from numerous young and half-grown speci- 

 mens from Manipur, Assam and Manjhitar, Sikkim. As McClel- 

 land's description of the species is brief and his figures totally 

 inaccurate, I take this opportunity to redescribe the species from 

 the adult specimen with notes frotn the \oung examples. 



D. 2/8—9. A- 2/5. P. 14. V. 8. 

 In Garra nasutus the head and body are greatly depressed and 

 the fish comes to resemble the species of the Hoinalopterid genus 

 Balitora in form. The dorsal profile is slightly arched ; the ventral 

 is straight and horizontal throughout. The head is almost as 

 broad as long ; the length is contained 5"/ times in the total length of 

 the fish. The length of the caudal fin is contained 5 "4 times and 

 the depth of the body near the origin of the dorsal fin 62 times in 

 the length of the fish. The eyes are dorso-lateral in position and 

 are invisible from below ; they are situated in the second half of the 

 head and their diameter is contained 42 times in the length 

 of the head, 2.6 times in the length of the snout and twice 

 in the interorbital distance. There is a short, broad and indis 

 tinct proboscis on the snout ; the tip of the snout is marked 

 off into a rounded lobe. There are two pairs of short barbels, 

 shorter than the diameter of the eye. The mental disc is almost 

 circular and coextensive with the width of the head. The lateral 

 line is straight ; it is somewhat nearer to the ventral than to the 

 dorsal surface. The scales are rather thin and almost indistin- 

 guishable; there are 34 scales along the lateral line and 8 longi- 

 tudinal series of scales between the bases of the dorsal and the 

 ventral fins. The dorsal fin is higher than the body and is almost 

 as long as the head ; its origin is nearer to the tip of the snout 



