neio Cyprinoid Fishes from Mi/sore. 47 



also adopted it far more widely for a similar purpose in 

 dealing with fish of the Garra kind mainly from the 

 Malabar area of the Peninsular India. Garra malabarica *, 

 Day, Garra aHa t, Day, and Garra jerdoni %, Day, are some 

 of his examples. Bleeker and Day are not, however, the 

 only authors who recognised the genus Garra, for Stein- 

 dachner § among the Germans had also employed it, 

 regarding lamia as its type-species. Another species of 

 Garra, also referred to by this author, is Garra (fotyla, Gray ||. 

 Among the more recent writers on the subject, we find 

 Fowler (G. borneeyisis)*\ and Berg (G. persica)^^^ recognising 

 the valid term Garra of Buchanan, though there are a ievr 

 who still try to revive the obsolete name of Discoffnatkus-ff. 

 riatycaraXX, Gonorliynchus ^^. and Mayoa \\\\ have been also 

 employed as generic terms by certain systematists, and some, 

 at any rate, are now treated practically as synonymous 

 with Discognathus. McClelland simply regarded that his 

 Platycara is synonymous with Gray's Balitora ^^. The 

 eligibility of the generic term Gonorliynchus, which was 

 introduced by Scopoli into the Liimean nomenclature, is, 

 however, disputed as not conforming to the Linnean Code, 

 since no type was indicated by Scopoli while introducing 

 the generic title into the binomial terminology. Still 

 Jerdon freely used this generic term in his description of 

 certain Cyprinine fish from S. India, such as Gonorhynchus 

 mcClellandi, Jer., Gon. gotyla, Jer., and Gon. stenorhynchus, 

 Jer.***. Of the three generic terms Gonorhynchus (1763), 

 Garra (1822), aud Platycara (1838), Giinther (1868) rejects 

 the first and treats the latter two denominations as synony- 

 mous with Discognathus (1843). Mayoa (1869), being of 

 Liter date, is not referred to by him. As Dr. Annandale 

 informs me, it is possible that on the basis of anatomical 

 characters two distinct genera may have ultimately to be 

 recognised, and in that case the more appropriate generic 



* 18G5. Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 297, and 1865. Fishes, Malabar, p. 205. 

 t 1867. Id. torn. cit. p. 349. 

 X 1867. Id. loc. cit. 



§ 1867. F. Steindachner, SB. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ivi. i. p. 36. 

 II 1867. Id. loc. cit. 



% 1905. Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. vol. Iviii. p. 482. 

 ** 1913. Berg, Ann. Mas. Zool. St. Petersburp-, vol. xviii. p. Ixi. 

 ft 1914. Began [Discognathus loance), Ann. &; Mag. Nat. Hiat. (8) xiii. 

 p. 263, tig. A. 

 \\ 1838. McClelland, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. vii. no. 6, p. 944. 

 §§ 1763. Gronow Zoophylaceum. 

 nil 1869. Dav, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 55.'}. 

 li'j 1838. McClelland, torn. cit. p. 947. 

 *•■•♦ 1849. T. C. Jerdon, Madras Journ. Lit. Sci. no. 35, pp. 309 10. 



