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Pharyngeal teeth 4 or 5, 3, 2-2, 3, 4 or 5 ; compressed, slightly concave on their 

 posterior surface, and very closely adpressed. Gill-rakers extremely small. Intestinal 

 tract with numerous convolutions. Peritoneum deep black. 



This species differs in several points from the typical Cirrhina. In the latter the 

 snout is more depressed, and the covering of the lower jaw by horny substance is the 

 exception ; of the barbels the upper ones are more frequently developed than the lower ; 

 the anal fin has a ray or two less than in the present species, and finally the nakedness 

 of the abdomen is a character by which our species seems to differ from all the others. 



Numerous specimens were collected at Nushki (N. Baluchistan), and in the small 

 river at Kushk (N. W. Afghanistan), Badghis ; they are all of small size, none of them 

 exceeding 5 inches in length. 



2. Discognathtjs lamta, Hamilton Buchanan. 



A considerable number of this common species, which extends from Assam into 

 Abyssinia, were collected on the Helmand River, and in the streams at Kushk 

 (Badghis). 



3. Capoeta steindachneri. 



Capoeta steindachneri, Kessler, Ichth. Faun. Turkest. p. 5, tab. 6. figs. 3, 4. 



This species, which was discovered by Fedchenko in the Sarafschan River, has also 

 been met with by the Delimitation Commission at Nushki and Kushk. The larger of 

 the two specimens is five and a half inches long, and the other only half that size. 



4t. SCHIZOTHORAX INTERMEDITJS. 



? Schizothorax intermedins, M'Clell. Calc. Joum. Nat. Hist. ii. 1842, p. 579. 



Schizothorax intermedins, Giinth. Fish. vii. p. 165; Day, in 'Second Yarkand Mission/ Ichthyol. 

 p. 5, pi. 2. fig. 1 *. 



The Barbels described under this name were found : — 



1. By Griffith in the Cabul River at Jellalabad, and in the Tarnuck River ; 



2. During the Second Yarkand Mission in Kashgar, Tangihissar, and Sarikol ; 

 whilst those obtained by Dr. Aitchison came from the River Kushk (Badghis). 



* In consulting this paper, which treats of Fishes of another Central-Asiatic district, I notice two statements 

 which I may correct on the present occasion : — 



1. The author proposes to supersede the name which 1 gave to a species first characterized by me, viz. Schizo- 

 thorax biddulphi, by one of McClelland's, viz. Schizothorax chnjsochhrus. McClelland gave this name to a rude 

 figure sent by Griffith. Any unbiassed observer who may take the trouble of examining the reduced copy of that 

 figure which McClelland appended to his paper will come to the conclusion that the figure and the name may be 

 applied to more than one species of Schizothorax, but that it certainly cannot have been taken from a fish with so 

 small and low a head as Sch. biddulphi. 



2. On p. 19 the same author states that " the stuffed type [of Racoma yobioides] presented to the British Museum 

 from the Indian Museum, seems to have been lost or destroyed." Now there is not a shadow of evidence that a 

 specimen of that fish was among those which were transferred from the Old India Museum to the British Museum. 

 Nay more, McClelland himself states that the specimen of Racoma gobioides was one of those which, on account of 

 their bad condition, were not transmitted from India to London (Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. ii. 1842, p. 575). 



