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serrated. There are ten longitudinal series of scales between the 

 lateral line and ventral fin. The length of the head is one-fifth of 

 the total (without caudal). Origin of the dorsal fin nearly midway 

 between the end of the snout and root of the caudal. Body with 

 irregular, scattered dark spots. (A'eys.) 

 Vicinity of Herat, also in warm sjirings. 



b. No osseoics dorsal ray : Gymnostomus. 



9. Capoeta micracanthus. 

 D. 11. A. 7. L.lat. 140. 



Body elongate ; head very small, though thick, its length being 

 one-fifth or one-sixth of the total (without caudal). Snout broad, 

 of moderate length, the eye being rather nearer to its end than to 

 that of the gill-cover ; barbels small. Origin of the dorsal fin mid- 

 way between the end of the snout and the root of the caudal. Anal 

 fin very narrow and deep. Interorbital space broad, slightly con- 

 vex ; eye small. Snout of certain specimens covered with pointed 

 conical tubercles. 



Bhotan. 



a-d. Stuffed, from 18 to 23 inches long. Punakha. From the 

 Collection of the East-India Company. 



10. Capoeta syriaca. 



Chondrostoma syriacum, Cuv. Sf Val. x\'ii. p. 407, pi. 614. 

 Gynmostomus syriacus, Heckel, I. c. (name only). 



D. 12. A. 7. L. lat. 80, 



The height of the body is more than the length of the head, which 

 is nearly one-fifth of the total (without caudal). Snout thick and 

 rounded. Two barbels only, at the corners of the mouth. Eye smaU. 

 {Val.) 



Abraham's River, at the foot of Mount Sinai, 



B. Scales of large or moderate size : Dillonia. 



11. Capoeta diUonii. 



Chondrostoma diUonii, Cur. 1^- Val. xvii. p. 404. 

 Dillonia dilonii, Heckel, in Hussegger's Heisen, ii. 3. p. 285 (name 

 only). 



D. 9. A. 7. L. lat. 30. 

 Dorsal fin with a strong, osseous, non-serrated ray ; snout rounded, 

 obtuse, without barbels. Mouth inferior, arched. The height of the 

 body is more than the length of the head, and one-fourth of the 

 total (with the caudal) ; caudal fin but little forked. Eye one-fifth 

 of the longth'of the head. Coloration uniform. (Val.) 

 Abyssinia. 



