588 Afghan Collection of Fishes. 



Habitat. The mountains of Simla.* 



5. Glyptosternon labiatus — Lips multilobate, reflected and spread 

 continuously around the mouth, so as to form a broad flat sucker ; 

 anal fin very small, dorsal perfectly soft and free from spines and 

 bristling points, posterior adipose dorsal long, cirri very short. 



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D. 7 : P. 14: V. 7: A. 6:C.i7. 



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Habitat. Mishmee mountains, (Griffith.) 



Gen. Olyra, McClell. Pi. xxi. 



Body soft, long, and cylindric, with two dorsals, the first 

 radiated, the second adipose, head elongated and flat at the 

 snout, operculum terminates behind in an oblique point di- 

 rected towards the dorsal fins, anal long, caudal entire, teeth 

 like velvet, confined to the jaws, no dorsal spine nor any 

 thing peculiar about the branchse ; from six to eight slender 

 cirri. 



Olyra longicaudatus, McClell. t. xxi. f. 1. Pectorals preceded by 

 a rough spine, jaws of equal length, six setaceous cirri, and the 

 middle rays of the caudal prolonged to a lengthened point. 



B. 6 : D. 7 : P. i : V. 5 : A. 23 : C. fi. 



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The body is long and slender as in Cobitis, the air vessel, which is 

 membranous, is placed in the anterior part of the abdomen; the stomach 

 is a short blind sack, having the pyloric orifice near the entrance of 

 the cesephagus, and the intestine small. This species seems to bring 

 the affinities of the Siluridce and Cobitidce closer to each other than 

 they seemed to stand before. 



Olyra laticeps, McClell. t. xxi. f. 2. Lower jaw longer than the 

 upper ; head much depressed at the snout ; eyes small and vertical ; 

 the anal fin rays gradually increase in length from the commence- 

 ment of the fin ; caudal entire ; six or eight slender cirri ; teeth like 

 the pile of velvet. 



B. 13 : D. 7 : P. 9 : V. 7 : A. 15 : C. 18. 



* We add this species here, although we were indebted for it to the scientific 

 zeal of the late Dr. Macleod, Inspector General. 



