99. ^•KMACHILus. 347 



edged ocellus on the base of the upper half of the caudal fin. Dorsal 

 and caudal fins finely mottled with brown. 

 Bengal. 



a. Throe inches and a third long. Presented bj^ G. E. ^"aterhouse, 

 Esq. 



99. NEMACHILUS*. 



Cobitis, sp., Artedi. 



Neinacheilus, van Hasselt, Alyem. Konst- en Letterb. ii. 1823, p. 13.3. 

 Cobitis, mict. 



Acanthocobitis, Peters, Monatsher. Ah. Wiss. Berlin, 1861, p. 712. 

 No erectile suborbital spine. SLx barbels, none at the mandible. 

 Dorsal fin oi)posite to the ventrals. Air-bladder enclosed in a bony 

 capsule. 



Europe and Asia (South Africa ?) . 



The species may be subdivided thus :— 

 I. Dorsal fin with more than twelve rays, p. 348. 

 II. Dorsal fin with less than twelve rays. 



A. Body crossed bv brownish bands descendinfr to the abdomen, 



p. 350. ° ' 



B. Body with narrow yellow transverse bars, p. 354, 



C. Body without any, or with incomplete cross bands. 



1. Caudal fin rounded or trimcate, p. 354. 



2. Caudal fin distinctly emarginate, p. 359. 

 Appendix, p. 361. 



* 1. Cobitis persa, Heckel, in Rnasegger's Beisen, ii. 3. p. 266.— Persepolis. 



2- rubripinnis, Jerdon, Mad'r. Jot(ni.Lif. Is: Sc. xv. 1849, p. 332 ; ? Da>/, 



Fish. Malah. p. 203.— Malabar. One of these authors states A. 6, the 

 other A. 2/7. 



3. mysorensis, Jerdon, I. c. — Mysore. 



4. montanus, Jerdon, I. c. — Coorg. 



5. carnaticus, Jerdon, I.e. p. 331. — Carnatic. 



6. scaturigina, {Buchanan, MS.) M'Clell. Ind. Cypr. pp. 308, 443. 



pi. 53. fig. 6.— Bengal ? 



7. Schistara zonata, M-CML Ind. Ci/pr. pp. 308, 441, pi. 53. fig. 1.— Assam. 



8. Cobitis chlorosoma, M-Clell. Ind. Cypr. pp. 305, 437, pi. 62. fig. 3.— 



Assam. 



9. zonalternans, BIyth, Journ. As. Sac. Bengal, 1860. p. 172.— Ten- 



nasserim. 



10. cincticauda, Blyfh, I. c. — Tennasserim. 



11- zebrata, Casfelnau, Pohs. Afr. Aiisfr. p. 56. — Cape Town. 



12. punctifer, Casfelnau. I. c. — Cape Town. 



13& 14. rupelli and C. mooreli, Sykes, Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. p. 366, pi. 64 



fig. 1.— Dekkan. D. 12-13. 

 15- merga, {Krynicl:i) ^Wdm. hiDemid. Voy. Eiiss. Mirid. iii. p. 470; 



Ke.-<sler, Bull. Soc. Naf. Mosc. 1859, i. p. 540; Cobitis nurga, Cuv. ^- Vol. 



xviii. p. 24. — Southern Russia. 



