19. BARBUS. 95 



hybrid between this species and Chondrostoma miegii. See a note ou 

 this point on Barhus bocagii, p. 92. 



21. Bar bus caninus. 



? Barbus meridionalis, Risso, Ichth Nice, p. 437. 



Earbua cauinus, Cuv. Htyne An. ; Bonap. Fann. Ital. Peso. ; Cttv. 8f 



Val. xvi. p. 142, pi. 4(J4 ; Heckel & Kner, Si'iHSU-asserJischey p. 85 ; 



Canestrini, Arch, per la Zool. iv. 1806, p. 77 ; Steindachner, Sitzysber. 



Ak: Wiss. Wien, 1860, liii. p. 206. 



guiraonis, Stcittdachner, I. c. liv. p. 11, taf. 5. 



meridionalis, BlancJiard, Poiss. France, p. 313. 



D. 3/7-8. A. 3/5. Y. 9. L. lat. 48-52. L. transv. 10/13. 



Osseous dorsal ray not stronger than the others, flexible and not 

 serrated. There are six longitudinal series of scales between the 

 lateral line and the base of the ventral. Body moderately elongate ; 

 snout moderately produced, with thick lips. Eyes small. The 

 origin of the dorsal fin is midway between the front margin of the 

 orbit and the root of the middle caudal rays. Anal flu at least 

 twice as high as broad. Caudal fin moderately forked, the middle 

 rays being half as long as the outer longest. Body and vertical fins 

 with black dots. 



Northern parts of Italy to the Pyrenees, and eastern parts of the 

 Pyrenean peninsula. 



a-c, d-f. Adidt females and half-grown. River Yar, near Nice. 



From Dr. Deakin's Collection. 

 g. Young : stufied. From YarreU's Collection. 



22. Barbus petenyi. 



Semling. • 



Leonhard, Lehrhuch zur Beforderung der Kenntniss von Siehenbilrgen, 



Hermannstadt, 1818, p. 191. 

 Barbus petenyi, Heckel, in Haidinger, Berichte iiber d. Mittheilungeti 



von Fretmd. d. Ntrwiss. Wien, iii. 1848, p. 194, and Verhandl. zool.- 



bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1853, p. 29; Heckel & Kner, Siissicasserf. 



p. 78; Siebold, Siisswasserf. p. Ill; Jeitteles, Verhandl. zool.-bot. 



Gesellsch. Wien, 1862, p. 298. 

 Pseudobarbiis leonbardi, Bielz, Verhandl. & Mittheil. d. Siebenhiirg. 



Verettis f. Ntrwiss. zu Hermannstadt, iv. 1853, pp. 173, 179, taf. 3. 



fig 1, and Fauna d. Wirbelth. Siebenbiirg. Hermannst. 1856, p. 173. 



D. 3/8. A. 3/5. L. lat. 55-60. L. transv. lifi-l 



Third dorsal spine not stronger than the other rays, flexible, and 

 not serrated. Body rather elongate ; snout rather produced, with 

 moderately thick lips. Eyes small. Anal fin nearly thrice as high 

 as broad. Body and .tail irregularly marbled with blackish brown. 



Transylvania and Hungary. 



Jeitteles (I. c.) says that he generally found 53-55 scales in the 

 lateral line, and that this fijsh may eventually prove to be identical 

 with B. caninus. 



