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cheek and opercle with radiating venules. Gill rakers 7 + 18, finely 

 lanceolate, more than twice gill filaments or I14 in eye. 



Scales minute, feeble, most all fallen. Abdominal myomeres 

 24+13. 



D. Ill, 14 to in, 16, first branched ray 2ys to 3iV in total head 

 length ; A. in, 28 to in, 30, first branched ray 21/2 to 2% ; caudal 1% 

 to ly^', least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 3l^; pectoral 1% to 

 2; ventral 33^ to 434. 



Brown, paler to light below. Neutral brown diffuse streak from 

 above gill opening to middle of caudal base. Head with brown tint. 

 Fins all pale. Iris gray. 



India, Pinang, Singapore, East Indies. 

 3 examples A.N.S.P. Off Bombay. Prof. F. Hallberg. Length, 81-92 mm. 



Family GONORYNCHIDAE 



Body greatly elongated, tapers behind. Head small, conic. Snout 

 rather long, pointed. Eye large. Barbel below end of snout. Upper 

 edge formed by short premaxillaries, and extends down as thick lip 

 before maxillary. Jaws toothless. Lips thickly fringed with barbels. 

 Nostrils double. Opercular apparatus well developed. Gill openings 

 narrow. Pseudobranchiae present. Acessory branchial organ behind 

 fourth gill arch, partly attached to fourth arch and partly to humeral 

 arch. Branchiostegals 4. Air bladder absent. Vertebrae 65, of 

 which 20 caudal. Head and body entirely covered with fine ctenoid 

 scales. Dorsal far back, opposite ventrals and short like anal. Cau- 

 dal forked. Pectorals low, fold like ventrals. Ventral rays 9 or 10, 



Besides the living Gonoryrwhus the fresh- water Eocene Notogoneus 

 of Montana and France appears to differ only in the edentulous palate 

 and tongue, besides its advanced dorsal. Several other fossils from 

 the Upper Cretaceous of Westphalia and Syria have also been placed 

 with the present family. 



Genus GONORYNCHUS Scopoli 



Oonorhynchus Gkonow, Zoophylacii, 1763, p. 55. (Species nonbinomial. ) 

 (Type, Cyprinus gonorynclms Linnaeus, tautotypic.) 



Oonorynchus Scopoli, Introd. Hist. Nat, p. 450, 1770. (Atypic.) (Type, Cy- 

 prinus gonorynchus Linnaeus.) 



Gonorincus Rafinesque, Analyse de la nature, p. 88, 1815. (Type, Cyprinus 

 gonorynchus Linnaeus. ) 



Gonorhyncus Sollas, Zool. Record, vol. 42, 1905, p. 48, 1906. (Type, Cyprinus 

 gonorynchus Linnaeus.) 



Oonorrynchus Ogilby, Ann. Queensland Mus., No. 10, p. 32, 1911. (Type, 

 Cyprinus gonorynchus Linnaeus.) 



Rynchana Richabdson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, Fishes, p. 44, 1846. (Type, 

 Rynchana grey I Richardson, monotypic.) 



