new Cyprinoid Fishes from Mysore. 59 



Measurements in Imudredtlis oE total length without 

 caudal fin: — 



mm. 



Total length without caudal fin 132 



Depth of body 2fi-5 



Depth of caudal peduncle lo'l 



Length of head 21-7 



Depth of head 19'6 



Width of head behind the eyes 15'9 



Length of snout , . ll'o 



Diameter of orbit 6'8 



Width of interorbital space 10'6 



Dist<ance from tip of snout to anterior root of 



dorsal fin 45"4 



Height of the hmgest dorsal fin-ray 3r06 



Distance from tip of snout to anterior root of 



pectoral fin 19"6 



I-iongest 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 49-2 



Longest ventral fin-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 

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

 British Museum and a similar number of syntypes are 

 presented to the Indian jMuseum. 



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

 coUleague, Mr. A. Subl)a Rao, from the River Tunga in 

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

 recess in 1917, and ha\e since been obtained by myself from 

 the same soui'cc. 



Subfamily Cobitidixm. 



Genus Botia. 



The occun'cnce of loache's belonging to this genus in the 

 south of the Dcccan has not been reported till now. 

 Dr. H. L. Cliaudhuri has described not long ago two new 

 species of Ihtia — viz., B. birdi^ and B. lohachaia\ obtained 

 from Rui)ar (the Punjab) and from the Gandak River, Bihar, 

 respectively, and the species desciibed below is therefore 

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



* 1909. Chaudhuri, Rec. Ind. Mas. vol. iii. p. 339. 

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



