364 CYPRINID-Ji. 



dorsal fin, and .several more between that and the head, which last 

 is marked all over with black lines and spots on a light- reddish 

 base. Base of the caudal fin with a black bar. Dorsal fin with a 

 light margin, bounded below by a jet-black band, and having a dark 

 base. {Day.) 



Wynaad (21 inches long). 



B. Body with narrow yellow transverse bars. 

 18. Nemachilus savona. 



Cobitis savona, Ham. Buch. Fish. Gang. p. .357 ; iJ/' Clell. liid. Cypr. 

 p. 308, pi. 53. fig. 3 (copied from Bicchanarts MS. drawings). 



D. 10. A. 6. 



Caudal fin emarginate ; upper margin of the dorsal fin straight, 

 oblique. Back dusky, with about ten narrow yellow transverse 

 bars. {H. B.) 



Northern JBengal. 



C. Body without any, or with incomplete cross hands. 



1. Caudal Jin rounded or truncate. 



19. Nemachilus barbatulus. 



Loach. Die Grundel or Schmerle. La Loche. Gronling ((Swcc?.). 

 Cobitis barbatula, Rondel, ii. p. 204 ; Aldrov. v. c. 31, p. 618 : 



Gesner, De Aquat. p. 404. 



fluviatilis, Schonev. p. 31. 



Fundulus, Marsil. Danuh. Pan.-Mys. p. 74, tab. 25. fig. 1. 



Loche, Willughby, Hist. Fisc. p. 265, tab. Q. 8. fig. 1 ; Pennant, Brit. 



Zool. iii. p. 247, pi. 58, or, edit. 1812, iii. p. 379, pi. 69 ; Couch, Fish. 



Brit. Isl. iv. p. 69, pi. 199. 

 Cobitis, sp., Artedi, Genera, p. 2. no. 2; Synon. p. 2. no. 1. 

 Cobitis barbatula, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 499 ; Bloch, Fische Deutschl. i. 



p. 224, taf. 31. f 3; Bl. Schn. p. 434: Lacep. v. p. 8; Miiller, 



Faun. Dan. Prodr. p. 47; Pall. Zoogr. Ross.- As. iii. p. 164; Donov. 



Brit. Fish. i. pi. 22 ; Turton, Brit. Farm. p. 103 ; Fleming, Brit. 



An. p. 189 ; Jenyns, Manual, p. 416 ; Parnell, Wern. Mem. vii. 



p. 270; Yarrell,^ Brit. Fish. i. p. 376, or, ed. 2, i. p. 427, or, edit. 3, 



1. p. 446 ; Meidinger, tab. 18 ; Fries och Ekstr. Skand. Fisk. pi. 53 ; 



Nths. Skand. Faun. Fisk. p. 343; Selys-Longch. Faune Beige, 



p. 193 ; Nordmann, in Demid. Toy. Russ. Merid. iii. p. 470 ; Cuv. ^ 



Val. xviii. p. 14, pi. 520 ; Kroyer, Damn. Fisk. iii. p. 539; Giinth. 



Fische d. Neckars, p. 104 ; Rapp. Fische d. Bode)isee's, p. 11 ; Heckel 



8f Kner, Siisswasserf. p. 301. fig. 162 ; Jeitteles, Fische d. March, 



1863, i. p. 19 ; Siebold, Siisswasserf. p. 337 ; Malmgren, Wiegm. 



Arch. 1864, p. 306 ; Canestrini, Arch.p. la Zool. etc. iv. 1866, p. 146; 



Blanchard, Poiss. France, p. 280. 

 Enchelyopus, Klein, Pise. Miss. iv. p. 59. no. 3, pi. 15. fig. 4. 

 Duhamel, Peches, ii. sect. 3. p. 621, pi. 27. fig. 3. 

 Cobitis barbatula, var. merga, Jeitteles, Verhand. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 



1862, p. 311, tab. 11. fig. 3 (this does not appear to be the true C. 



merga of Krynicki). 

 Air-bladder : Rosenthal, Ichthyotom. Taf. tab. 10. fig. 8. 



D. 10. A. 7. V. 7. Vert. 23/16. 



Caudal fin truncate, with the corners rounded. Origin of the 



