new Cyprinoid Fishes from Mysore. 47 



also adopted it far more widely for a similar purpose In 

 dealing with fish of the Garra kind mainly from the 

 Malabar area of the Peninsular Tudia. Garra malabarica *, 

 Day, Garra aUa f , Day, and Garra jerdoni J, Day, are some 

 of his examples. Bleeker and Day are not, however, the 

 only authors who recognised the genus Garra, for Stein- 

 dachner § among the Germans had also employed it, 

 regarding lamta as its type-species. Another species of 

 Garra, also referred to by this author, is Garra gotyla, Gray ||. 

 Among the more recent writers on the subject, we find 

 Fowler (G. borneensis) *<\ and Berg (G. persica) ** recognising 

 the valid term Garra of Buchanan, though there are a few 

 who still try to revive the obsolete name of Discognathus ff. 

 Platycara % J, Gonorhynchus §§. and Mayoa |||| have been also 

 employed as generic terms by certain systematists, and some, 

 at any rate, are now treated practically as synonymous 

 with Discognathus. McClelland simply regarded that his 

 Platycara is synonymous with Gray^s Balitora ^[^[. The 

 eligibility of the generic term Gonorhynchus, which was 

 introduced by Scopoli into the Linneau nomenclature, is, 

 however, disputed as not conforming to the Linnean Code, 

 since no type was indicated by Scopoli while introducing 

 the generic title into the binomial terminology. Still 

 Jerdon freely used this generic term in his description of 

 certain Cyprinine fish from S. India, such as Gonorhynchus 

 mcClellandi, Jer., Gon. gotyla, Jer., and Gon. stenorhynchus, 

 Jer.*"**. Of the three generic terms Gonorhynchus (1763), 

 Garra (182.2), and Platycara (1838), Giinther (1868) rejects 

 the first and treats the latter two denominations as synony- 

 mous with Discognathus (18-13). Mayoa (1869), being of 

 later date, is not referred to by him. As Dr. Annandale 

 informs me, it is possible that on the basis of anatomical 

 characters two distinct genera may have ultimately to be 

 recognised, and in that case the more appropriate generic 



* 18G5. Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 297, and 1865. Fishes, Malabar, p. 205. 

 t 1867. Id. torn. cit. p. 349. 

 % 1867. Id. loc. cit. 



§ 1867. F. Steindachner, SB. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. lvi. i. p. 36. 

 || 1867. Id. loc. cit. 



if 1905. Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. vol. lviii. p. 482. 

 ** 1913. Berg, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersburg, vol. xviii. p. lxi. 

 tf 1914. Regan (Discognathus wanes), Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xiii. 

 p. 263, fig. A. 

 XX 1838. McClelland, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. vii. no. 6, p. 944. 

 §$ 1763. Gronow Zoophylaceuin. 

 Ill] 1869. Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 553. 

 H«l 1838. McClelland, torn. cit. p. 947. 

 * ;: * 1849. T. C. Jerdon, Madras Journ. Lit. Sci. no. 35, pp. 309-10. 



