IS. CAPOETA. 77 



lighter streak. Dorsal and anal fins with a broad, oblique, black 

 band. 



Sumatra and Borneo. 



a. Type of the species. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 



18. CAPOETA* 



Capoeta, sp., et Chondrostoma, sp., Cin\ ^- Val. 



Scaphiodon, sp., Dillonia et ( iymnostomus, sp., IlecM in Russeygcr, 

 Reisen, i. 1842 (Oct.) p. 1020, and ii. 3. pp. 285-287. 



Scales smaU, of moderate or large size. Dorsal fin with or with- 

 out a strong, osseous ray, with not more than nine branched rays, 

 opposite to the ventrals. Snout rounded, •with the moiith transverse 

 and at its lower side ; each mandible angulai'ly bent inwards in 

 front, the anterior mandibular edge being nearly straight, sharpish, 

 and covered with a horny brown layer. No lower labial fold. Bar- 

 bels two (four in C. tinea), or entirely absent. Anal scales not 

 conspicuously enlarged. Pharyngeal teeth compressed, truncated, 

 5 or 4 . 3 . 2—2 . 3 . 4 or 5. 



Rivers of Western Asia. 



On the skeleton see Capoeta damascina, p. 78. 



The species may be subdivided thus : — 



A. Scales small. 



a. An osseous dorsal ray : Capoeta. 

 a. Barbels two, p. 77. 



fi. Barbels four, p. 80. 



b. No osseous dorsal ray : Gi/mnostomus, p. 81. 



B. Scales of large or moderate size : Dillonia, p. 81. 



A. Scales small. 



a. An osseous dorsal ray : Capoeta. 



(I. Barbels two. 



1. Capoeta damascina. 



Gobio damascinus, Cuv. ^- Val. xvi. p. 314, pi. 482. 



Scaphiodon capoeta, Ileckel in Russeggers Reisen, i. p. 1057, taf. 5, 



♦ 1. Cyprinus Kipoeta, Giildcnstadt, Nov. Comm. Acad. Sc. Pcfropol. xvii. 

 '1773, p. 507, tab. 8; Cyprinus fundulus, Pall. Zoogr. Ross.- As. iii. 

 p. 204 ; Capoeta fundulus, Cuv. Sf Val. xvi. p. 279.— Caspian Sea, 

 Eiver Cyrus. 



2. Cyprinuslabco, Pallas, Nov. Act Acad. Sc. Petropol. i. 1787, p. 355, 



tab. 11. figs. 8, 9 (biid) ; Zoogr. Rosso.-As. iii. p. 305 ; from the tribu- 

 taries of the Upper Amur. Our knowledge of this fish is very incom- 

 plete, and its position in the system doutjtful ; it may be a Chondro- 

 stoma. 



3. Scapliiodon .saadii, Meckel, in Russegger's Reisen, ii. 3. p. 260. Perse- 



polis. — L. lat. 75-78. 



