J 8. CAI'OETA. 77 



lighter streak. Dorsal and anal fins with a broad, oblique, black 

 band. 



Sumatra and Borneo. 



a. Type of the species. From Dr. Blocker's Collection. 



18. CAPOETA*. 



Capoeta, sp., et Chondrostoma, sp., Ciiv. ^- Val. 



Scaphiodon, sp., Dillonia et (ivninostonuis, sp., Ilcckelin Rn^scggcr, 

 Reisen, i. 1842 (Oct.) p. 1020, and ii. 3. pp. 285-287. 



Scales small, of moderate or large siz6. Dorsal fin with or with- 

 out a strong, osseous ray, with not more than nine branched rays, 

 opposite to the vcntrals. Snout rounded, with the mouth transverse 

 and at its lower side ; each mandible angularly bent inwards in 

 front, the anterior mandibular edge being nearly straight, sharpish, 

 and covered with a horny brown layer. No lower labial fold. Bar- 

 bels two (four in C. tincct), or entirely absent. Anal scales not 

 conspicuously enlarged. Pharyngeal teeth compressed, truncated, 

 5 or 4 . 3 . 2—2 . 3 . 4 or 5. 



Rivers of Western Asia. 



On the skeleton see Capoeta damascitia, p. 78. 



The species may be subdivided thus : — 



A. Scales small. 



a. An osseous dorsal ray : Capoeta. 

 a. Barbels two, p. 77. 



i3. Barbels four, p. 80. 



b. No osseous dorsal ray : Gyiyinostomus, p. 81 . 



B. Scales of large or moderate size : Dillonia, p. 81. 



A. Scales small. 



a. An vsseoiis dorsal ray : Capoeta. 



a. Barbels two. 



1. Capoeta damascina. 



Gobio damascinus, Cuv. <§• Val. xvi. p. 314, pi. 482. _ 



Scaphiodon capoeta, Heckcl in Russeggers Reisen, i, p. 1057, taf. 5. 



* 1. Cyprinus capoet^i, Guldensiadt, Nov. Comm. Acad. Sc. Petropol. xvii. 

 1773, p. 507, tab. 8 ; Cyprinus fundulus, Pall. Zoogr. Ross.- As. iii. 

 p. 294 ; Capoeta fundulus, Cuv. ^" Val. xvi. p. 279.— Caspian Sea, 

 River Cyrus. 



2. Cyprinus labeo, Pa/las, Nov. Act Acad. Sc. Petropol. i. 1787, p. 355, 



tab. 11. figs. 8. 9 (bad); Zoogr. Rosso.-As. iii. p. 305; from the tribu- 

 taries of the Upper Amur. Our knowledge of this fish is very incom- 

 plete, and its position in the system doubtrul; it may be a Chondro- 

 stoma. 



3. Scaphiodon saadii, Hcckel, in Kusseggcr's Reisen, ii. 3. p. 2C0. Perse- 



polis. — L. lat. 75-78. 



