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D. 10 : P. 16 : V. 9 : A. 11 : C. 19. Back bluish black, 

 the scales darkest at the edge, head blackish brown ; sides 

 bluish white, belly silvery ; pectoral, ventral, and anal fins, 

 pale red. Fkni. Brit. An., p. 187 ; Yarr. Brit. Fish., i. 

 409. Cyprinus cephalus, Linn., Penn. Brit. Zool., iii. 

 485. C. Jeses, Dm. Brit. Fish., pi. 115. 



Sp. 111. L. erythrophthalmus. Red-eye, or Rudd. Body 

 very deep and thick, head small, under jaw longest ; dor- 

 sal fin above the space between the ventrals and anal ; 

 anal rather large ; tail forked, the lobes long. Fin-rays, 

 D. 10 : P. 15 : V. 9 : A. 13 : C. 19. Back olive-green, 

 sides and belly orange, the whole with a brilliant metallic 

 gloss of reddish gold-colour ; caudal, ventrals, and anal, 

 bright vermilion. Cm}. Reg. An., Flem. Brit. An., p. 188; 

 Yarr. Brit. Fish., i. 412. Cyprinus erythrophthalmus, 

 Linn., Perm. Brit. Zool., iii. p. 479, pi. 83 ; Dm. Brit. Fish., 

 pL 40. 



Sp. 112. L. ccerideus. The Azurine. Body not so deep as 

 in C. erythrophthalmus ; dorsal placed as in that species ; 

 anal fin with fourteen rays ; upper parts slate-blue, under 

 side silvery, all the fins white. Yarr., Linn. Trans., xvii. 

 pt. i. p. 8 ; Brit. Fish., i. p. 416 ; Jenyns* Brit. Vert.^ 

 p. 413. 



Sp. 113. L. albwrnus. The Bleak. Body elongated and 

 slender before the caudal fin ; under jaw longest and 

 ascending ; dorsal situate as in the two last species, anal 

 rather long, containing about nineteen rays, base of the 

 caudal long, the extremity deeply forked. Fin-rays, D. 1 : 

 P. 17 : V. 9 : A. 18. : C. 19. Colour of the back greenish 

 or ash-brown tinged with blue, under side shining silvery 

 white, the colours separated by a well-defined line ; fins 

 nearly white. Cwv. Reg. An., Yarr. Brit. Fish., i. p. 419. 

 Cyprinus alburnus, Linn., Penn. Brit. Zool., iii. p. 487, pi. 

 84 ; Don. Brit. Fish., pi. 18. 



Sp. 114. L. phoxinus. The Minnow. Body rather slender 

 and rounded, surface nearly smooth, the scales being small ; 

 snout short, jaws nearly equal ; dorsal entirely behind the 



