100. coBiTis. 363 



Cobitis larvata, De Filippi, Mem. Accad. Tvrin. xix. p. Ixxi; Canes- 

 triiii, Arch. p. la Zool. iv. 18(30, p. 152. 



D. 10. A. 7. V. 6. 



Body much compressed. Barbels very short ; eye small, in the 

 middle of the length of the head. Scales inconspicuous. The origin 

 of the dorsal fin is somewhat in advance of that of the ventrals. A 

 scries of large brown spots (sometimes confluent into a band) along 

 the side of the body. A brown streak from the eye to the end of 

 the snout ; a black spot on the upper part of the root of the caudal. 



Europe ; Japan. 



a. Half-grown. Holland. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 

 h. Adult: skin. Holland. From Gronow's Collection. 



c. Adult. Bavaria. From Dr. Gemmiuger's Collection. 



d. Half-grown. Kiver Gotha (Sweden). Purchased of Mr. Lloyd. 



AcantJiopsis aurafa, De Filippi, Viaggio in Persia, p. 3G0, is cha- 

 racterized thus: — Habitus Acanth. tanice, sed corpore longiore, 

 cirris longioribus, aculeo infi-aorbitali cum diametri verticalis oculi 

 prolongatione coincidente. Corporis lateribus et abdomine nitide 

 auratis. — jS'eighbourhood of Sartschcm. 



2. Cobitis gimtea. 



Cobitis gimtea, Ham. Buch. Fish. Garni, p. 363; M'Clell. Ltd. Cijpr. 

 pp. 303, 434, tab. 51. fig. 3 (copied h-om Hiichanan's 3IS. draicings). 



D. 9. A. 7. V. 7. 



Body moderately compressed. Barbels weU developed. Eye 

 rather small. The origin of the dorsal fin is somewhat in advance 

 of the ventrals. Three series of spots (each composed of dots) along 

 the side of the body, those of the middle seiies confluent into a 

 baud. Dorsal and caudal fins with numerous brownish dots. 

 {Budi.) 



Assam and Bengal. 



3. Cobitis gongota. 



Cobitis gongota, Ham. Buch. Fish. Gang. p. 351. 



cucura, Ham. Buch. I. c. p. 352; M' Civil. Iml. Cypr. pp. 303, 



434, tab. 51. fig. 2 (copied from Buchanan's MS. draicings) 

 (young). 



oculata, M'Clell. Ind. C>/pr. pp. 303, 433, tab. 51. fig. 1. (copied 



from Buchanan s MS. drawings). 

 ? Cobitis maya, Sg/;es, Trans. Zool. Sac. ii. p. 367. 

 ? Cobitis amnicola, Cuv. S)- Val. xviii. p. 68. 



Somileptes gongota, Swainson .Jj- BleeXer, All. Ichthyol. Cypr. p. 3 

 (name onlv). 



D. 10. A. 8. V. 7. 

 Body moderately compressed. Barbels moderately developed. 

 Eye small, prominent, somewhat before the middle of the length of 

 the head. Scales inconspicuous. The origin of the dorsal fin is in 

 the vertical from the root of the inner ventral ray. A more or less 

 distinct, undulated band ahmg the >idc of the body, emitting ver- 



