neio Cyprinoid Fishes from Mysore. 51 



Further, Day's lamia is considered to be the same as his 

 modestus by Jenkins *, with whom I entirely agree. Dr. 

 Annandale f, however, regards the latter, possiblv on the 

 basis of six anal fin-rays, as synonymous with McClelland 's 

 nasutus, thus agreeing with Giiuther in assigning it the 

 rank of a separate species in opposition to Day. In dis- 

 cussing the specific distinctions of nasutus, Dr. Annandale J 

 notices that a greatly enlarged adhesive organ (c), and the 

 simple and flattened outer pectoral rays (<?), form exclusive 

 characters, and I may point out that several examples of 

 lamta obtained from the rapid streams, like the Harangi in 

 Coorg, show these very characters, which accordingly may be 

 disregarded. Then the other character — viz., six anal fin- 

 rays on which Day separates his lamta and jerdoni from 

 modestus — is uniformly common in several examples of 

 lamta, both in my collection and in that of the Indian 

 Museum, and I may state that this is also the experience of 

 Jenkins. The other specific characters mentioned by Day 

 for his modestus, as Jenkins has pointed out, also break 

 down wdien a very large number of examples of lamta from 

 widely different localities are examined, and, as I am unable 

 at present to discover any sufficient ground for separating 

 Day's modestus from his lamta, I have in this paper treated 

 the former as synonymous witli Buchanan's lamta. In the 

 absence of more material than is available at present in the 

 Indian Museum, it is difficult to say whether nasutus is only 

 a local race of lamta or a hew species. 



1 rewrite the formula for Garra lamta of its fin-rays and 

 lateral transverse rows of scales thus : — 



D. 10-11 (2-3.2/8-9). P. 15. V. 9. A. 6-7 (1-2/5). 

 C. 17-19. L. 1. 30-37. L. tr. 4-1^/3^-1^. 



(1) Specimens with spine-covered mucous glands on the 

 snout are not peculiar to the Salt Range in the Punjab or 

 the Chumba District § ; they commonly occur in Mysore 

 and Coorg. 



(2) The occurrence of a spiny protuberance is a purely 

 secondary sexual character. 



(3) A greatly enlarged mental disk and an expansive 

 pectoral fin, with a larger number of simple rays, are 

 associated with forms occurring in the rapid streams. 



* 1909. Jenkins, op. cit. p. 292. 



t 1919. Annandale, Rec. Ind. Mus. vol. xvi. p. 132. 



+ 1919. Id. op. cit. p. 13.3. 



§ Day, Fishes — Fauna, Brit. hid. vol. i. p. 246. 



