354 CYVKINID-T-. 



dorsal fin, and several more between that aiul the head, wliich last 

 is marked all over with black lines and spots on a light-reddish 

 base. Base of the caudal fin with a black bar. Dorsal fin with a 

 light margin, bounded below by a jet-black band, and having a dark 

 base. (Da If.) 



Wynaad (2| inches long). 



B. Body with narroxu i/cllow transverse bars. 



18. Nemachilus savona. 



Cobitis savona, Ham. Buch. Fish. Gaiif/. p. 357 ; If' Clell. Ind. Cypr. 

 p. 808, pi. 53. fig. 3 (copied from Buchanaii's MS. draivings). 



D. 10. A. 6. 



Caudal fin emarginate ; upper margin of the dorsal fin straight, 

 oblique. Back duskj^ with about ten narrow yellow transverse 

 bars. {H. B.) 



Northern Bengal. 



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



1. Candaljin rounded or truncate. 



19. Nemachilus barbatulus. 



Loach. Die Grundel or Schmerle. La Loche. Gronling ((S'i^ierf.). 

 Cobitis barbatula, Rondel, ii. p. 204 ; Aldrov. v. c. 31, p. 618 ; 



Gesner, De Aquat. p. 404. 



fluviatilis, Schonev. p. 31. 



Fmidulus, 3Iarsil. JJaiiub. Fan.-Mys. p. 74, tab. 25. fig. 1. 



Loche, IJ'ilhiqhby, Hist. Pise. p. 265, tab. Q. 8. fig. 1 ; Pennant, Brit. 



Zool. iii. p. 247, pi. 58, or, edit. 1812, iii. p. 379, pi. 69 ; Couch, Fish. 



Brit. Isl. iv. p. 69, pi. 199. 

 Cobitis, sp., AHedi, Genera, p. 2. no. 2; Synnn. p. 2. no. 1. 

 Cobitis barbatula, L. S'l/sf. Nat. i. p. 499 ; Bloch, FiscJie Deutschl. i. 



p. 224, taf. 31. f. 3 ;' Bl. Schn. p. 434 ; Lacep. v. p. 8 ; Miiller, 



Faun. Dan. Prodr. p. 47 ; Pall. Zoogr. Boss.- As. iii. p. 104; Donov. 



Brit. Fish. i. pi. 22 ; Turton, Brit. Faun. p. 103 ; Fleming, Brit. 



An. p. 189 ; Jenyns, Manual, p. 416 ; Parnell, Wern. Mem. vii. 



p. 270 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. i. p. 376, or, ed. 2, i. p. 427, or, edit. 3, 



1. p. 446 ; Meidinger, tab. 18 ; Fries och Ekstr. Skand. Fisk. pi. 53 ; 



Niks. Skand. Faun. Fisk. p. 343; Selys-Longch. Faune Beige, 



p. 193 ; Nordmann, in Demid. Voj/. Buss. Merid. iii. p. 470 ; Cuv. H; 



Val. xviii. p. 14, pi. 520 ; Kriiyer, Ihnim. Fisk. iii. p. 5-39; Gimth. 



Fische d. Neckars, p. 104 ; Rapp. Fisclic d. Bodmisee's, p. 11 ; Heckel 



Sf Kner, Siisswasserf. p. .301. fig. 162 ; Jeittvles, FiscJie d. March, 



1863, i. p. 19 ; Siebold, Siissicasserf. p. 337 ; Mahngren, Wtec/m. 



Arch. 1864, p. 300 ; Canedrini, Arch. p. la Zool. etc. iv. 1866, p. 146; 



Blanchard, Poiss. France, p. 280. 

 Enchelyopus, Klein, Pise. Mks. iv. p. 59. no. 3, pi. 15. fig. 4. 

 JDuhamel, Peches, ii. sect. 3. p. 521, pi. 27. fig. 3. 

 Cobitis barbatula, var. merga, Jeitteles, Verhand. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 



1862, p. 311, tab. 11. fig. 3 (this does not appear to be the true C. 



merga of Krynicki). 

 Air-bladder : Rosenthal, Ichthyotom. Taf. tab. 10. fig. 8. 



D. 10. A. 7. V. 7. Vert. 23/16. 



Caudal fin truncate, with the corners rounded. Origin of the 



