82 CTPEINIDJE. 



12. Capoeta aculeata. 



Chondrostoma aculeatum, Cuv. Sf Veil. xvii. p. 408. 

 D. 10. A. 8, L. lat. 38. 

 Third dorsal ray serrated. A very small barbel on each side of 

 the mouth. The height of the body equals the length of the head, 

 and is two-elevenths of the total (without caudal). ( Vul.) 

 Persia. 



13. Capoeta macrolepis. 



Scaphiodou macrolepis, Hcckel, I. c. ii. .3. p. 2o9. 



D. 11. A. 8. L. lat. 43-44. L. transv. 7/?. 

 Osseous dorsal ray serrated. Mouth inferior, transverse, with 

 two very short barbels. The height of the body is rather more 

 than the length of the head, which is less than one-sixth of the 

 total (with the caudal). Coloration uniform. (HecJc.) 

 Eiver Araxes. 



19. BARBUS*. 



Barbus, sp., Cuv. H^gne Anim. 



Cyprinus, sp., at Puntius, Ham. Buch. 



Labeobarbus et Varicorbinus, Ri'qtp. Mm. Scnckenb. ii. 18.37, p. 14. 



Barbus et Systomus, McClelland. 



Barbus, sp., Labeobarbus et Capoeta, sp., Cuv. ^ Val. 



Pseudobarbus, Bielz. 



Systomus, Barbus, Labeobarbus et Luciobarbus, Heckel. 



Barbus, Pseudobarbus et Cheilobarbus, A. Smith. 



Bai'bus, Labeobarbus, Balantiocbeilus, IIemibarbus,CycloclieiIicbthys, 

 sp., Siaja, sp., Anematicbthys, Hypselobarbus, sp., Gono])rokto- 

 pterus, Puutius, Barbodes, Capoeta, Pimtius, Gnatbopogon et Kam- 

 pala, Bleeker. 



Enteromius, Cope, Trans. Am. PJiilos. Soc. xiii. p. 405. 



Scales of small, moderate, or large size. Dorsal fin generally with 

 the (third) longest simple ray ossified, enlarged, and frequently ser- 



* Barbels four :— 



1. Barbus canalii, C. cf V. xvi. p. 143. — Perugia. 



2. peloponnesius, C. t|- V. xvi. p. 144. — Morea. 



3. Cyprinus mursa, Guldenstddt, Nov. Comtn. Petropol. xvii. 1773, p. 513, 



tab. 9 ; Cyprinus mystaceus, rail. Zoogr. Eoss.-As. iii. p. 293 ; Barbus 

 mystaceus, Nordm. in Demid. Voy. Euss. MSrid. iii. 474. — Rivers of 

 Russian Georgia. — Evidently allied to B. jluviatilis or B. plchejus, 

 with very small scales, a strong serrated spine, elongate head and 

 body, 43 vertebrw, &c. 



4. Cyprinus capi to, Giildenstadt, I. c. p. 518; Pallas, I. c. p. 294; Barbus 



capito, Nordmann, I. c. p. 475. — River Kur. — Giildenstadt says, 

 "DiiFert a Barho: capite longiore, latiore, minus depresso ; rostro 

 obtusiore ; eirrhis longioribus ; oculis niajoribus ; corpore aliquantuni 

 magis eompresso ; pinna dorsali a rostro multo remotiori ; tandem 

 colore laterum infra lineam et pinnis inferioribus omnibus luteis ; 

 vertebris 47." Pallas adds that it is a large-scaled species (?). 



5. Cyprinus arabicus, (Ehrenherg) C. cf- V. xvi. p. 202. — This name may 



be properly erased from the system. 



6. Barbus malabarious, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. ^ Sc. xv. 1849, p. 312. — 



