Fishes from Baluchistan. 507 



large and broad, lips fleshy, snout with glandular pores and 

 warts and a groove across it. Dorsal arises slighlly ahead of 

 ventvals, its last undivided ray moderately strong, serrated 

 nearly to the tip. Scales regular on sides and back, small 

 and hardly touching each other on the abdomen. None of 

 the fins reaches the next. Caudal moderately forked, the 

 lower lobe the longer. 



Coloration ^dark olive above, silverish yellow on sides, 

 white on lower surface. Orange blotcjies in both sexes on 

 preopercle, base of pectoral, and along the lateral line ; fins 

 yellowish. 



Distinguished from Sc. baluchiorum, Jenkins, by the size 

 and position of the mouth, greater size of eye, and greater 

 length of head ; from Sc. macmahoni, T. lieg., by the 

 same characteristics and the comparatively smaller depth of 

 body. 



Ten specimens, from 110 to 190 mm., were caught in 

 irrigation channels and pools near Panjgur. 



Laheo macmahoni, sp. n. 



D. IIT/8, P. 17, V. 10, A. 11/5, C. 22, 11. 35-36. It. % 

 11. -V. 4i, dph. 5—4—2—2—4—5. 



Length of head 5.1, depth of body 4^ in iotal length. 

 Diameter of orbit 4 in head, 2^ in interorbital space, and 1? 

 in snout. Mouth very soft and flabby, with pronounced 

 lateral lobes. Jaws closely enveloped by lips ; a median 

 transverse fold to lower lip, two external folds. Lower jaw 

 with a hard and sharp horny margin. Barbels four: two 

 rostral, shorter than the eye, two very small ones in the 

 corners of the mouth. Dorsal arises midway between tip of 

 snout and end of base of anal fin, considerably before the 

 origin of ventrals ; pectoral reaches § towards ventral, the 

 latter f towards anal. 



Slate-blue on back, golden and silvery on sides and abdo- 

 men ; no marks ; fins pale, unspotted. 



None of the other Asiatic species combines the low number 

 of dorsal rays with the presence of 4 barbels. 



Thirteen specimens from Dasht River, near Suntsar and 

 Turbat ; this seems the westernmost habitat of the genus in 

 Asia. 



