382 SYNOPSIS. 



middJe as well as the ventrals ; caudal rays long, the ex- 

 tremity forked. Fin-rays, D. 9 : P. 16 : V. 8 : A. 9 : 

 C. 19, Lateral line descending at first, then continued in 

 nearly a direct line a little below the middle ; coloiu: of 

 the back dusky olive, mottled ; sides lighter, belly white, 

 becoming more or less crimson in summer ; tail light brown 

 with a dark brown spot at the base. — Cuv. Reg. An., Yarr. 

 Brit. Fish., i. p. 423. Cyprinus phoxinus, Liiwi., Pema. 

 Brit. Zool, iii. p. 489 ; Don. Brit. Fish., pi. 60. 

 Gen. LVII. Cobitis. Body elongated and covered with 

 minute scales which are invested with a slimy mucus ; dorsal 

 single ; ventrals placed far back ; lips fleshy and furnished with 

 six barbules ; branchiostegous rays three. 



Sp. 115. C. harhatula. Loach, or Beardie. Head small, 

 lips fitted to act as suckers, and furnished with six bar- 

 bules ; body rounded before the dorsal fin and compressed 

 behind it ; dorsal central ; insertion of the ventral under 

 the middle of the dorsal ; caudal even or slightly concave 

 at the extremity ; back and sides yellowish brown, mottled 

 and spotted with dusky ; the lateral line and under side 

 brownish white. — Linn., Pewn. Bnt Zool., iii. p. 379 ; 

 D(m. Brit. Fish., pi. 22 ; Yair. Brit Fish., i. 427. 

 Sp. 116. C. tcenia. Groundling. Body lanceolate and com- 

 pressed, the scales small ; a large spine just behind each 

 nostril ; mouth small and the nose produced ; relative 

 position of the fins as in C. harhatula, caudal rounded at 

 the extremity ; colour and markings nearly as in the spe- 

 cies just named. — Linn., Perm. Brit. Zool., iii. p. 301, 

 Botia taenia, /. E. Gray, Zool. Mis., p. 8 ; Yan'. BriU 

 Fish., i. 432. 

 Fam. XIV. Fsocidee. Pike Family. Dorsal Jin single, no 

 adipose fin; mouth large and with sharp teeth; upper jaw 

 formed hy the intermaxillary, and, when this is rwt the case^ 

 maacillary is without teeth a/nd concealed in the substance of the 

 lips. 



Gen. LVITI. Esox. Snout long and depressed ; body elon- 

 gated, the back rounded ; teeth in both jaws, as well as on 



