CYPBINUJJ5. CIPHININ.E. 



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5. Genus SCHIZOPYGOPSIS, Steindaehner. 



Abdomen rounded. Snout obtusely conical. Mouth transverse, 

 inferior, with a slight cleft ; mandible with a sharp anterior edge, 

 having a horny covering, and the upper lip continuous with a short 

 lateral one. Barbels absent. Pharyngetil teeth compressed, 4 or 

 3, 3/3, 3 or 4. Dorsal fin short, with a serrated ray, and situated 

 nearly opposite to the ventrals ; anal short. Scales small, few, 

 and only present in the scapular region, except a scaled sheath to 

 the vent and along the base of the anal fin. Lateral line continued 

 to the centre of the base of the caudal. Ova comparatively large. 



285. (1.) Schizopygopsis stoliczkaB. (Fig. 89.) 



Sehizopygopsis stoliczkae, Steind. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1866, 

 p. 786 ; Day, Fish. India, p. 531, pi. cxxiv, fig. 2. 



B. iii. D. 10-11 (3-4/7-8). P. 13. V. 11. A. 7 (2/5). C. 19. 

 Length of head 5 to 5| in the total length. Eyes diameter 4 

 to 5 in the length of the head, 1 to lg diameters from the end of 

 the snout, and 1| to 2 apart. The greatest width of the head 

 equals its length behind the middle of the eyes, and its height 

 equals its length excluding the snout. The maxilla reaches to 

 below the front edge of the eye. An anterior, sharp, horny edge 



Fig. 89. Schizopygopsis stoliczkce. 



to the mandible. Fins the dorsal as high as the body, it com- 

 mences about midway between the end of the snout and the root 

 of the caudal tin, its last undivided ray osseous and finely serrated. 

 Pectoral not quite so long as the head, and reaching rather above 

 halfway to the ventral, which latter arises below the middle of the 

 dorsal and does not reach the anal. Anal rather above twice as 

 high as its base is long, it extends to the caudal when laid flat. 

 Caudal deeply forked. Colour olive superiorly, becoming white 

 on the sides and beneath, the whole covered with irregular blackish 

 spots. 



Hal. Leh and head-waters of Indus, also tributaries of the 

 Yarkand and Oxus rivers. 



