436 Memoirs of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. V, 



1839. Gonorhynchus fimbriatus, McClelland, Asiat. Researches, XIX, pp. 282 and 375, pi. xliii, fig. 3 B. 



1839. Gonorhynchus macrosomus, id., ibid., pp. 282 and 372, pi. xliii, fig. 7 B. 



1839. Gonorhynchus gohama, id., ibid., p. 283, pi. xliii, fig. 6 B. 



1839. Gonorhynchus brevis, id., ibid., p. 373. 



1841. Chondrostoma wattanah, Sykes, Trans. Zool. Soc, II, p. 360, pi. lxii, fig. 4. 

 1872. Crossocheihis barbatulus, Beavan, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 152, fig. 2. 



1878. Cirrhina latia, Day, Fish. Ind., p. 548, pi. cxxx, fig. 4. 

 1889. Cirrhina latia, Day, Faun. Brit. Ind., Fish., I, p. 279. 



There is only one specimen, secured on 4-i-i5 at Barkul and measuring 89 mm. 

 The maxillary barbels are wanting. This is a strictly freshwater species. Its 

 occurrence in the lake, especially in the beginning of January (when the water is 

 very salt) is most extraordinary. This must have been one of those rare occasions on 

 which a freshwater fish had entered the lake through one of the numerous streams 

 or flood overflows and had survived at the edge of the lake at a place where the 

 inflow drainage water had enabled it to shift for a time. 



Distribution : — Fresh waters along the foot of the Himalayas, and of the United 

 Provinces, Punjab, Sind, Deccan, Orissa, Bengal and Assam. 



Genus BARBUS, Cuvier. 

 Barbus sophore (Hamilton Buchanan). 



1822. Cyprinus sophore, Hamilton Buchanan, Fish. Gang., pp. 310 and 389, pi. xix, fig. 86. 



1839. Cyprinus sophore, McClelland, Asiat. Researches, XIX, pp. 285 and 382. 



1842. Cyprinus sophore, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XVI, p. 388. 

 1844. Leuciscus stigma, id., ibid., XVII, p. 93, pi. cccclxxxix. 



1844. Leuciscus duvaucelii, id., ibid., XVII, p. 95, pi. ccccxci. 



1844. Leuciscus sulphureus, id., ibid., XVII, p. 96. 



1849. Systomus sophore, Jerdon, Madr. lourn. Lit. Sc, XV, p. 316. 



1867. Puntius modestus, Kner, Novara Fische, p. 348, t. xv, fig. 3. 



1868. Puntius stigma, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 198. 



1868. Barbus sophore, Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., VII, p. 152. 



1869. Barbus (Puntius) stigma, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 375. 

 1878. Barbus stigma, Day, Fish. Ind., p. 579, pi. cxli, fig. 5. 

 1889. Barbus stigma, Day, Faun. Brit. Ind., Fish., I, p. 329. 



There are altogether forty-six specimens of various sizes in the collection obtained 

 at different times of the year in the main area of the lake. The largest number 

 was obtained after the floods. 



Hamilton Buchanan gave the name " Cyprinus sophore ' ' to this fish, the specific 

 name being derived, as he says, from its Sanskrit equivalent; he found this fish to be 

 a " beautiful little fish,' ' fl very common in ponds ' ' in Bengal. He definitely stated 

 in the text that the fish so named by him was represented by figure 86 of plate xix of 

 his illustrations that were published along with the text of his work on the Fishes of 

 the Ganges. 



In the introductory remarks in English there were two or more 'printer's mis- 

 takes.' In the first para, of his introductory remark he stated that there were only 



