432 Dr. E. Zuijnijwer oyi new 



XLIX. — Descriptions of Four new Ci/prinoid Fishes from 

 High Asia. By Dr. Erich Zugmayer^ of the Zoological 

 Museum, Munich. 



In a collection of fishes which I raarle during the year 

 1906 in Chinese Turkestan, Western Tibet, and Kashmir 

 the following four species appear to be new to science. Of 

 the genus Aspiorhynchus (Kessler) two of the known species 

 were previously described under the name of Ptychoharhus 

 longicejys and Ft. laticeps by Day. Kessler later on intro- 

 duced the generic name of Aspiorhynchus, and added a third 

 species, A. przewalshii. Schizothorax tibetanus is more 

 allied to the species known from Kashmir than to those 

 described from the Brahmaputra system ; this is not sur- 

 prising, since the Panggong lakes, where this new species 

 was collected, must have belonged to the Indus system 

 until not long ago. Aspiorhynchus is exclusively charac- 

 teristic for the Tarim basin. 



Aspiorhynchus sartus, sp. n. 

 D. III/6. P. 1/18. V. 1/8. A. IlT/5. L. lat. ca. 125. 



Length of head contained 3i, height of body 7 in total 

 length. The height of the head exceeds its width a little and 

 measures half its length. Eyes oval and oblique, the ante- 

 rior margin being the higher ; their greatest diameter is 

 contained 11 in length of head, 3 in the preorbital, and 3 in 

 the inteiorbital space, which latter is flat. Barbels two at the 

 corners of the mouth, reaching beyond the vertical from the 

 posterior margin of the eye. Mouth terminal, its cleft 

 obliquely ascending. The maxilla reaches to below the 

 front edge of the eye. An interrupted lower labial fold is 

 present. Lower jaw somewhat the longer, with a moderate 

 knob at the sj'mphysis. Free portion of tail | as deep as it 

 is long. Scales oval, arranged in oblique rows on the ante- 

 rior part of the body. Fins : the distance from tip of snout 

 to beginning of dorsal exceeds the distance from end of 

 dorsal to root of caudal by one half. Osseous ray moderately 

 strong, closely serrated behind, measuring ^ of the length of 

 the head. Pectoral does not extend hallway to insertion of 

 ventral and is about f the length of head. Base of the 

 ventrtil under the tirst divided dorsal ray; the fin itself does 

 not reach halfway to the anal. Tlie length of the base of 

 the anal is contained twice in its depth; when laid flat the 

 anal misses the root of the caudal by the length of its base. 



