362 CTPRINID.E. 



the eyes sharp and bony. A dark nebulous streak extends along the 

 lateral line. Caudal tin round, crossed by several small bars. 

 Mishmee Mountains. 



100. COBITIS*. 



Cobitis, sp., Artedi. 



Eotia, sp., Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 8. 



Acantbopsis, Agassiz, Mem. Soc. Sc. Nut. Nemhdtel, i. p. 36 (not Van 



Huss.). 

 Somileptes et Cobitis, Meeker. 



Body more or less compressed, elongate ; back not arched. A 

 small, erectile, bifid suborbital spine below the eye. Six barbels 

 only on the upper jaw. Dorsal fin inserted opposite to ventrals ; 

 caudal rounded or truncate. Air-bladder enclosed in a bony capsule. 



Europe ; East-Indian continent. 



1. Cobitis taenia. 



Spinous Loacli, Groundling. Der Steinpizger. 



Cobitis aculeata, Emidel. ii. p. 204; Aldrov. v. p. 617; Gesner, 



pp. 404, 482 ; Jonston, iii. tit. 1, c. 12. a. 2, t. 26. f. 21 ; Willughhy, 



Hist. Pise. p. 265, tab. Q. 8. fig. 3. 

 Taenia cornuta, Willughhy, I. c. p. 266. 

 Marsil. Daniih. Pan.-Mys. p. 3, tab. 4. fig. 2. 

 Cobitis, sp., Artedi, Genera, p. 2. no. 1 ; Species, p. 4. no. 1 ; and 



Synon. p. 3. no. 2 ; Gronov. Zoophyl. no. 202. 

 Cobitis ta3uia, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 499 ; Bl. Fische Deutschl. i. p. 221, 



tab. 31. fig. 2 ; Bl. Schn. p. 434 ; Lacep. v. p. 9 ; Pallas, Zoogr. Ross.- 



As. iii. p. 166 ; BliUler, Prodr. Znol. Dan. p. 47 ; Meiditiger, tab. 32 ; 



Turton, Brit. Faun. p. 103 ; Fleming, Brit. An. p. 189 ; Jenyns, Man. 



p. 417 ; Nilss. Skand. Faun. Fisk. p. 345 ; Cuv. f Val. xviii. p. 58 ; 



Heck. 8^ Kner, Siisswasserf. p. 303. fig. 163 ; Siebold, SiUswasserf. 



p. 338 ; Malmgren, Wiegin. Arch. 1864, p. 306 ; Steindachner, 



Sitzgsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1865, Nov. 3 & 30 ; Canestrini, Arch. 



p. la Zool. etc. iv. 1866, p. 148 ; Blanchard, Poiss. France, p. 285. 

 Spinous Loche, Pennant, Brit. Zool. ed. 1812, iii. p. 381. 

 Botia tasnia, Yarrell, Brit. Fish. i. p. 381 ; 2nd edit. i. p. 432 ; 8rd 



edit. i. p. 452 ; Kroyer, Damn. Fisk. iii. p. 564 ; Couch, Brit. Fish. 



iv. p. 72, c. fig. pass. 

 Acanthopsis tsenia, Agassiz, Mem. Soc. Sc. Neuchdtel, i. p. 36 ; Selys- 



Lonqch. Fuune Beige, p. 192 ; Nordm. in Demidoff Voy. JRuss. 



Merid. iii. p. 468 ; Jeitteles, Fische d. March, i. 1863, p. 18. 

 Cobitis (Acanthopsis) caspia, Eichwald, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1838, 



ii. p. 133; and Faun. Casp.-Caucas. p. 160. 

 taenia japonica, Schleg. Faun. Japan. Poiss. p. 222, pi. 103. 



figs. 3 & 3 a. 



elongata. Heck. ^ Kner, Siisswasserf. p. 305. fig. 164. 



Cobitis barbatula, Gronov. Syst. ed G7-ay, p. 41 (not auct.). 



* 1. Acanthopsis linea. Hcckel, in Russegger's Eeisen, ii. 3. p. 267. — Persepolis. 



2. berdmorei, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 18(30, p. 168. — Tennaa- 



serim. 



3. micropogon, Blyth, I. c. — Tennasserim. This species is deseribed 



as having ''the tail furcate." 



