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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
If we examine the localities whence the fishes which form this collection were procured, 
omitting the Murree and Kashmir examples, we find as follows : — 
Name of species. 
Exostoma stoliczlcce ... 
Oreinus sinuatus 
Schizothorax esocinus 
chrysochlorus 
■ intermedius 
irregularis 
Ptychobarbus conirostris 
Head waters of 
Indus. 
Yarkand river, or its 
branches. 
Oxus, or its 
tributaries. 
laticeps 
longiceps 
Schizopygopsis stoliczhiB 
Diptychus maculatus ... 
Nemacheilus stoliczkce 
gracilis ... 
yarlcandensis 
— — — tenuis ... 
Total 
Thus, we have eight species from the head- waters of the Indus, two of which eX ^ e1 ^ 
to the great easterly, or Yarkand, River of Eastern Turkestan, and one to the Oxus ^ 
Western Turkestan; nine species from the Yarkand River, two common to the Indus ^ 
three to the Oxus ; and four species from the Oxus, three of which are also found 111 
Yarkand River, and one in the head waters of the Indus. _ • Qn 
If these species are examined in accordance with the districts traversed by this JV 1 
and mapped out by Mr. Hume, we obtain the following results : — ec j eS 
(1st ). — Erom the hilly region between Murree and the Zoji-la Pass, there exists one sp ^ 
of Schizothorax showing an affinity to the Turkestan fauna : one Orem > ^ 
Himalayan genus : and two species of Nemacheilus, a genus common 
Turkestan and Hindustan. ttvrnfl* 
(2nd ). — Erom Zoji-la to the head of the Pankong there are; — one Siluroid, 
evidently a Himalayan and hilly form. Of carps, the Himalayan ^ 
four genera which may be considered as common to Turkestan, and m° ^ 
the upper hilly regions, viz., Schizothorax, Schizopygopsis , I Hycobar 
Diptychus : lastly, a Nemacheilus, an almost universally distributed germ^^ 
(3rd ). — Erom the plains of Yarkand, two species of Schizothorax and two ° 
bar bus, evidently the most typical forms of the fishes in these elevated i c » 
the genus Nemacheilus is likewise represented. 
