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Measurements in hundredths of total length without 



caudal fin: — 



ram. 



Total length without caudal fin 132 



Depth of body 2(V5 



Depth of caudal peduncle 15*1 



Length of head 21*7 



Depth of head 19-6 



Width of head behind the eyes 15*9 



Length of snout H'5 



Diameter of orbit 6*8 



Width of interorbital space 10*6 



Distance from tip of snout to anterior root of 



dorsal fin 45-4 



Height of the longest dorsal fin-ray 31-06 



Distance from tip of snout to anterior root of 



pectoral fin 19'6 



Longest pectoral fin-ray 19*6 



Distance from tip of snout to vent 69"6 



Distance from tip of snout to anterior root of 



ventral fin 492 



Longest ventral tin-ray 19 - 6 



Distance from tip of snout to anterior root of 



of anal fin 75-7 



Longest anal fin-ray 22'7 



Length of caudal peduncle 18 - 4 



Longest caudal fin-ray 27*2-31'06 



Height of root of caudal fin 14*4 



Type-specimen. — Several examples of this" species are in 

 the collection. The type and three co-types are sent to the 

 British Museum and a similar number of syntypes are 

 presented to the Indian Museum. 



Locality. — They were obtained for the first time by my 

 collleague, Mr. A. Subba Rao, from the River Tunga in 

 Shimoga (Mysore State), towards the end of the summer 

 recess in 1917, and have since been obtained by myself from 

 the same source. 



Subfamily Cobitidixm. 



Genus Botia. 



The occurrence of loaches belonging to this genus in the 

 south of the Deccan has not been reported till now. 

 Dr. B. L. Chaudhuri has described not long ago two new 

 species of Botia — viz., B.birdi* and B. lohachataf obtained 

 from Rupar (the Punjab) and from the Gandak River, Bihar, 

 respectively, and the species described below is therefore 

 the first new one to be mentioned from S. India. 



* 1909. Chaudhuri, Eec. Ind. Mus. vol. iii. p. 339. 

 t 1912. Id. op. cit. vol. vii. p. 441, pi. xl. fig. 2. 



