19. BARBUS. 93 



Barhus pectoralis, Heckel, in Russegger, Reisen, i. p. 1045, taf. 2. 

 fig. 2, from the Orontes, seems scarcely different from the above 

 species. (L. lat. 44.) 



16. Barbus comiza. 



Barbiis comizo, Steindachner, Catul. prelim. Poiss. creau douce de 



Portuf/al (Mem. Acad. 6'c. Iyisbo)i>ic, 1866), p. 4. 

 comiza, Stei?idachner, Sitzgsher. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1866, liv p 8 



taf. 2. ^ > V , 



D. gi. A. 8/5. L. lat. 49-51. L. transv. 9/?. 



Third dorsal spine very strong, strongly serrated. There are six 

 longitudinal series of scales between the lateral line and the base of 

 the ventral. Body compressed, moderately elongate ; snout much 

 produced and narrow, with the cleft of the mouth somewhat bent 

 upwards and terminal ; lips and barbels very thin. Eyes of mode- 

 rate si/e. Anal narrow and high ; caudal deeply forked. (Steiml.) 



Rivers Tagus and Guadiana. 



The author quoted mentions also (ibid.) a hybrid between this 

 species and Chondrostoma u'iWirommii. See on this point Barhus 

 bocar/ii, p. 92. 



17. Barbus pemiciosus. 



Heckel, in Rtissegger^s Reisen, i. p. 1047, taf. 2. fig. 3. 

 D. 3/8. A. 8. L. lat. 42. L. transv. 8. 

 Third dorsal spine exceedingly strong, higher than the body, 

 strongly serrated. There are six longitudinal series of scales be- 

 tween the lateral line and the base of the ventral. Rody elongate, 

 head depressed ; snout of moderate extent ; lips thin. Eyes large, 

 two-sevenths of the length of the head. Anal fin narrow, deep ; 

 caudal deeply forked. (Heel'.) 

 Damascus. 



18. Barbus sclateri. 

 D. 11. A. 8-9. L. lat. 45-46. L. transv. 8/8. 

 The osseous dorsal ray is very strong, strongly serrated, its osse- 

 ous portion being as long as the head, without snout. The height 

 of the body (which is rather compressed) is nearly equal to the 

 length of the head, and about one-fourth of the total (without 

 caudal). Head rather depressed, flat above ; snout produced, some- 

 what pointed ; moulh inferior ; lips thick ; barbels rather long, the 

 upper reaching somewhat beyond the front margin of the orbit, the 

 lower to the angle of the prteopcrculum. The eye is a little nearer 

 to the end of the snout than to that of the prieoperculum, its 

 diameter being two-fifths of the length of the snout, and one-sixth 

 of that of the head in adult examples. There are four or five longi- 

 tudinal series of scales between the lateral line and the ventral fin. 

 The origin of the dorsal fin is in the midcUo of the total length 

 (without caudal). Anal very narrow and pointed, the length of its 

 ba.se being at least two-fifths of its height ; it does not reach the 



