300 ciriuxiuji. 



Stilbe, Dchmj, New Turk Fcaai. Fish. p. 204. 



Alburnellus, Luxilus, sp., Eichardsonius, Girard. 



Abramis, Abramidopsis, Blicca, Bliccopsis, d Albumus, sp., Siehokl. 

 Body much compressed, elevated or oblong. Scales of moderate 

 size ; lateral line present, running in tlie lower half of the tail. 

 Dorsal fin short, "without spine, opposite to the space between ventrals 

 and anals ; anal fin long, many-rayed. Lower jaw generally shorter, 

 and rarely longer, than the upper ; both jaws with simple lips, the 

 lower labial fold being interrupted at the symphysis of the man- 

 dible. Upper jaw protractile. Gill-rakers rather short; pseudo- 

 branchiffi. The attachment of the branchial membrane to the isth- 

 mus takes place at some cUstance behind the vertical from the orbit. 

 Pharyngeal teeth in one or two series, with a notch near the ex- 

 tremity. Belly behind the ventrals compressed into an edge, the 

 scales not extending across it. 



Europe, north of the ^Ups, and adjoining parts of Asia ; North 

 America. 



a. Phaiyngeal teeth o — 5 : Abramis (Siebold), p. -300. 



/3. Pharyngeal teeth o . 2—2 . 5 : Blicca (Heckel), p. 306. 



a. Abramis. 



1. Abramis brama. 

 The Bream. Der Brachseu or Bley. 

 Brax. La Breme. 



Abramis fluviatilis, Bellon. De Aqtiat. p. 317; Gesner, pp. 316 & 317. 

 Cvprinus latus, Rondel. De Pise. Lac. p. 154; Aldrov. De Pise. pp. 641 



& 642 ; Schonev. p. 33 ; Gronov. Zoophyl. no. 345. 

 Bream, Willuqliby, p. 248, tab. Q. 10. fig. 4 ; Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. 



p. 317, pi. 70, and, ed. 1812, iii. p. 478, pi. 81 ; Couch, Fish. Brit. 



M. iv. p. 30, pi. 187. 

 Brama, Ilarsil. Danub. iv. tab. 16 & 17. 

 Cvprinus, sp., Artedi, Gen. p. 6. no. 17; iS)jec. p. 20. no. 10; Si/non. 



p. 4. no. 2. 

 Cvprinus brama, L. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 531; Leshe, lehfh. Lips. p. 73; 



^Bl. Fische Deutschl. i. p. 75, taf. 13 ; Bl. Schn. p. 438 ; Lacep. v. 



p. 591 ; Meidinger, tab. 43 ; Pall. Zoorp: Ross.-As. iii. p. 325 ; 



Ekstrom, Fische v. Morko, p. 30 ; Donovan, Brit. Fish. iv. pi. 93 ; 



Turton, Brit. Faun. p. 108 ; Jenyns, Manual, p. 406 ; Fries och Fkstr, 



Skand. Fish. p. 175, pi. 42; Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 180. 

 Brama, Klein, Miss. v. pi. 61. no. 1. 



[/. S. # Pac. R. E. Exped. Fish. p. 282, pi. GO. figs. 9-12.— Canadian 

 Eiver, South Fork.— A. 13. 



6. Leuciscus compressus, {Eafincsqv.c) Kirtland, Host. Journ. Kat. Hist. iv. 



1843, p. 306, pi. 15. flg. 2 ; Storer, Mem. Arner. Acad. ii. p. 409.— 

 Ohio. — This species is described, as liaving the abdomen comjiressed at. 

 the anal fin, which, however, is said to be nine-rayed. If this be so, it 

 cannot be referred to the same genus as the other American species 

 witli a long anal fiu. Is it, perhaps, a hybrid ? 



7. obesus, Sforer, Proc. Bosf. Soc. Nat. Hist. i. 1843, p. 48 ; and Mem. 



Amer. Acad. ii. p. 418 ; Stilbe obesus, Agass. Sillim. Journ. 1854, xix. 

 p. 359 (name only) ; Luxilus obesus, Girard, Proc. Ac. Ned. Sc. Philad. 

 185G, p. 203 (synon. only), from Florence, Alabama, is very imperfectly 

 L'nowu ; not even the numbers of fin-rays are given. 



