82 CYPEINIDiE. 



12. Capoeta aculeata. 



Chondrostoma aculeatum, Cuv. 8c Vol. xvii. p. 408. 

 D. 10. A. 8. L. lat. 38. 

 Third dorsal ray serrated. A very small barbel on eacn side of 

 the mouth. The height of the body equals the length of the head, 

 and is two-elevenths of the total (without caudal). ( Vol.) 

 Persia. 



13. Capoeta macrolepis. 



Scaphiodon macrolepis, Heckel, I. c. ii. 3. p. 259. 



D. 11. A. 8. L. lat. 43-44. L. transv. 7/?. 

 Osseous dorsal ray serrated. Mouth inferior, transverse, with 

 two very short barbels. The height of the body is rather more 

 than the length of the head, which is less than one- sixth of the 

 total (with the caudal). Coloration uniform, (Heck.) 

 River Araxes. 



19. BARBUS* 



Barbus, sp., Cuv. Rhgne Anim. 



Cyprinus, sp., et Puntius, Ham. Buck, 



Labeobarbus et Varicorhinus, Riipp. Mus. Senckenb. ii. 1837, p. 14. 



Barbus et Systomus, McClelland. 



Barbus, sp., Labeobarbus et Capoeta, sp., Cuv. <§• Val, 



Pseudobarbus, JBielz. 



Systomus, Barbus, Labeobarbus et Luciobarbus, Heckel. 



Barbus, Pseudobarbus et Cheilobarbus, A. Smith. 



Barbus, Labeobarbus, Balantiocbeilus, Hemibarbus,Cyclocbeilichthy8, 

 sp., Siaja, sp., Anematichthys, Hypselobarbus, sp., Gonoprokto- 

 nterus, Puntius, Barbodes, Capoeta, Puntius> Gnatbopogon et Ham- 

 t..\la, Sleeker. 



Enveromius. Cope, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc, xiii. p. 405. 



Scales of small, moderate, or large size. Dorsal fin generally with 

 the (third) longest simple ray ossified, enlarged, and frequently ser- 



* Barbels four: — 



1. Barbus janalii, C ^ V. xvi p. 143. — Perugia. 



2. — peloponnesius. C. cf V. xvi. p. 144. — Morea. 



3. Cyprinus mursa, Guldenstddt, Nov. Comm. Petropol. xvii. 1773, p. 513, 



tab. V) ; Cyprinus mystaceus, Pall. Zoogr. Roks.-As iii. p. 293 ; Barbus 

 niystaceus, Nordm. in Deviid. Voy. Buss. Merid. iii. 474. — Eivers of 

 Russian Georgia. — Evidently allied to B. fluviatilis or B. plebejus, 

 with very small scales, a strong serrated spine, elongat« head and 

 body, 43 vertebrae. &c. 

 •1 Cyprinus capito, Giildensfadt, I. c. p. 518; Dallas, I. c. p. 294 ; Barbus 

 capito, Nordmann, I. c. p. 475. — River Kur. — Gxildenstiidt says, 

 " Differt a Barho : capite longiore, latiore, minus depresso ; rostro 

 obtusiore ; cirrhis longioribus ; ooulis majoribus ; eorpore aliquantum 

 magis compresso ; pinna dorsali a rostro multo remotiori ; tandem 

 colore iaterum infra lineam et pinnis inferioribus omnibus luteis ; 

 vertebris 47." Pallas adds that it is a large-scaled species (?). 



5. Cyprinus arabicus, {Ehrcnbcrg) C. tf- V. xvi. p. 202. — This name may 



be properly erase^ from the system. 



6. Barbus umla'baricus, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. La. 4' Sc. xv. 1849, p. 312. — 



