306 CYPRINIBJE. 



9, Abramis (?) leptosomus. 



Liixilus leptosomus, Girard, in Proc. Acad. Nat. Se. Philad. I85G, 

 p. 203 ; U. S.^ Mex. Bouml. lehthyol. p. 60, pi. 19. figs. 9-12. 



D. 9. A. 15. 



The height of the body is nearly one-fourth of the total length 

 (without caudal). Snout subcorneal. The anal fin Gommenees 

 behind the dorsal. (Girard.) 



Dry creek, near Victoria, Texas. 



^. Blicca. 

 10. Abramis blicca. 



The White Bream, or Bream-Flat. Die Blicke or Der Giister. La 



Bordeliere. Blicka, Bjelk or Bjerkna. 

 Ballerus, Rmidel. ii. p. 154 ; Schonev. p. 28 ; Ahlrovand. v. p. 645. 

 Blicca, Ballerus, Plestya, Gesner, p. 1(37. 

 Cj-prinus, sp., Artedi, Gen. p. 3. no. 3; Spec. p. 20.no. 9; Sytwn. 



p. 13. no. 27 (add the synonymy of no. 24, p. 12). 

 Cyprinus bjorkna, L. Syst. Nat. p. 532. 



plestya, Leske, Ichth. Lijis. p. 69. 



bhcca, Bl. Fische Deidschl. i. p. 65, taf. 10 ; Bl. Schi. p. 437 ; 



Hartmann, Hehet. lehthyol. p. 233 ; Jenyns, Man. p. 407 ; Ekstrmn, 



Fische v. Mdrko, p. 44 ; Fries och Fkstr. Skand. Fisk. p. 64, tab. 12. 

 latus, L. Gm. i. p. 1438 ; Jenyns, Catal. Brit. Vert. p. 26 ; 



Grmiov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 179. 



laskyr. Pall. Zoogr. Boss.-As. iii. p. 326. 



ballerus, Meidinger, tab. 7 (not L.). 



Abramis blicca, Cue. R. An. ; Agassiz, in Mem. Soc. Se. Nat. Neu- 



chdtel, i. p. 39 ; or in Wiegm. Arch. 1838, p. 81 ; Nordmann, in 



Demid. Voy. Buss. Merid. iii. p. 504, pi. 22. fig. 1 ; Selys-Longch. 



Faun. Beige, p. 218; Kroyer, Damn. Fisk. iii. p. 389; Gunth. 



Fische d. Neckars, p. 93. 

 bjorkna, Nilsson, Skand. Faun. iv. p. 328; Blanehard, Poiss. 



France, p. 359. 



micropteryx, Agassiz, II. cc. ; Guv. fy Val. xvii. p. 44. 



erythropterus, Agassiz, II. cc. ; Cuv. ^- Val. xvii. p. 58. 



White Bream, Yarrell, Brit. Fish. i. p. 340; 2nd edit. i. p. 387; 3rd 



edit. i. p. 403; Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. iv. p. 40, pi. 198. _ 

 Abramis laskyr, Nordmann, in Demidoff, Voy. Buss, Merid. iii. p. 504, 



tab. 22. fig. 1. 

 Leuciscus blicca, Cuv. ^ Val. xvii. p. 31. 

 Blicca argyroleuca, Heckel <^ Kner, Siisswasserf. p. 120. figs. 62 & 63 ; 



Dyhowski, Cypr. Livlcmds, p. 202. 



laskyr, Heckel (^ Kner, I. e. p. 123. fig. 64. 



bjorkna, Siebold, Siisswasserf. p. 138; Malmgren, Wiegm. Arch. 



XXX. p. 313; Jdckel, in Ahh. zool.-miner. Ver. Begensb. 1864, p. 38. 



D. 11. A. 22-27, V. 9-10. L. lat. 43-48. L. transv. ^. 

 Vert. 20/20. 



Body elevated, its depth being contained from twice and one-fifth 

 to twice and four-fifths in the total length (without caudal). Snout 

 short, very obtuse, with the upper profile bent downwards in a 

 strong ciirve. Upper jaw scarcely overlapping the lower ; mouth 

 small, inferior. Back of the tail without keel. TLiere are five longi- 



