66o Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi, XXII, 



Base of hills, Chakardharpur Sing- F. H. Gravely ... ... 2. 



bhoom Dist., Chotr, Nagpur. 

 Pachmarhi, C.P. ... ... A. Buchanan, W. H. Kenrick Several. 



and F. H. Gravel) . 

 Near Sasan, Gir Forests, Kathia- S. P. Agharkar, , , ... 2. 



war. 

 Streams in Girnar Mt., near Juna- ., .. ... Several. 



gadh, Kathiawar. 



A.S.B. ... ... I. 



Garra lamta, Ham. Buch. 

 Plate XXIV, figs. 2, 2a. 



1822. Cvpriniis ! Gnrra) lamta, Hamilton Buchanan, Fish. Ganges, pp. 

 ' .U.S. .39.V 



D. 2/8. A. 2/5. 



As has ahec.cly been pointed out considerable confusion has 

 centred round this historic species. Having now collected speci- 

 mens from the type-locality I take this opportunity to define the 

 species precisely. I have compared my specimens with Buchanan's 

 manuscript drawin.s; and find no dift'erence between the t.vo. 



Garra lamta is a beautiful little Cj'prinid fish with a fusiform 

 body, highest near the origin of the dorsal and tapering towards 

 both ends. The head and body is depressed but not greatly so. 

 The length of the head is contained 47 times, of the caudal fin 5 

 times and the depth of the body 5'2 times in the length of the fish 

 including the caudal fin The head is vz times as long as broad. 

 The eyes are lateral and are situated slightly below the dorsal 

 profile of the head ; they are almost invisible from below. Their 

 diameter is contained four times in the length of the head, twice 

 in the interorbital width and vy times in the length of the snout. 

 In the female the eye is almost in the middle of the head, in the 

 male, however, it is somewhat in the posterior half. The snout is 

 smooth in the female while in the male it is provided with a short 

 knob-like median proboscis in front of the nostrils ; the tip of the 

 snout is also marked off by a groove into a transverse lobe which is 

 covered by spiny tubercles Tubercles are also present on the 

 sides of the snout in front of the nostrils. The mouth in both 

 sexes is a small, slightly arched transverse opening on the under 

 surface considerably behind the anterior end of the snout. In 

 the male the mental disc is better developed. There are two 

 pairs of short thread-like barbels. In the male the barljels are 

 comparatively much longer than in the female ; the rostral pair 

 being longer than the diameter of the eye. The origin of the 

 dorsal fin is nearer to the tip of the snout than to the base of the 

 caudal ; it is not so high as the depth of the body below it ; the 

 last undivided ray is the longest. In the female its free margin 

 is truncate whereas in the male it is slightlj- concave. The ven- 

 trals are situated almost below the middle of the dorsal and their 

 origin is equidistant from the tip of the snout and the ba^e of the 

 caudal fin in the male, while in the female it is much nearer to the 



