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surface yellowish. Lower lobe of caudal fin clouded dark, 

 so also the outer margins of the paired (ins. A blue pectoral 

 spot may or may not be present. This coloration of fresh 

 specimens fades in preserved forms. 



Measurements in hundredths of total length without 

 caudal fin : — 



mm. 



Total length without caudal fin 118 



Depth of body 17'7 



Depth of caudal peduncle 10"1 



Length of head 20-2 



Depth of head 135 



"Width of head behind the eyes 135 



Length of snout 18'8 



Diameter of orbit , 5 - 08 



Width of interorbital space 11 '01 



Distance from tip of snout to anterior root of 



dorsal fin 42*3 



Height of the longest dorsal fin-ray 22*03 



Distance from tip of snout to anterior root of 



pectoral fin 19 - 4 



Longest pectoral fin-ray 18'6-201 



Distance from tip of snout to vent 56'7 



Distance from tip of snout to anterior root of 



-ventral fin '46-6 



Longest ventral fin-rav 18 - 6-19 - 4 



Distance from tip of snout to anterior root of 



anal tin 74-5 



Longest anal fin-ray 15*2 



Length of caudal peduncle 202 



Longest caudal fin-ray 2o - 4 



Height of root of caudal fin-ray 11'8 



Type-specimen. — Only three specimens of this fish are 

 included in my collection. The proterotype is sent to the 

 British Museum, and one of the syntypes is presented to the 

 Indian Museum, while the other is kept in the Central 

 College Museum, Bangalore. 



Locality. — These specimens were collected in the Cauvery, 

 Seringapatam (Mysore), along with G. lamta and G. steno- 

 r/tynchia towards the summer of 1917. 



6. Garra bicomuta, sp. n. 

 (PI. I. figs. 3, 3 a, 3Z>.) 



D. 11 (2/9). P. 17. V. 1.2. A. 8 (1/7). C. 20. 

 L. 1. 30-31. L. tr. 3±-4/3±-4. 



The dorsal profile in front of the dorsal fin is broadly 

 convex, and behind the dorsal fin it is nearly horizontal or 

 only very gently slopes clown to the caudal fin. The length 

 of the head, which is moderate, is contained slightly less than 



