382 SYNOPSIS. 



middle as well as the ventrals ; caudal rays long, the ex- 

 tremity forked. Fin-rays, D. 9 : P. 16 : V. 8 : A. 9 : 

 C. 19. Lateral line descending at first, then continued in 

 nearly a direct line a little below the middle ; colour of 

 the back dusky olive, mottled ; sides lighter, belly white, 

 becoming more or less crimson in summer ; tail light brown 

 with a dark brown spot at the base. Cwv. Reg. An., Yarr. 

 Brit. Fish., \. p. 423. Cyprinus phoxinus, Linn., Perm. 

 Brit. Zool, Hi. p. 489 ; Don. Brit. Fish., pi. 60. 

 GEN. LVII. COBITIS. Body elongated and covered with 

 minute scales which are invested with a slimy mucus ; dorsal 

 single ; ventrals placed far back ; lips fleshy and furnished with 

 six barbules ; branchiostegous rays three. 



Sp. 115. C. larbatula. Loach, or Beardie. Head small, 

 lips fitted to act as suckers, and furnished with six bar- 

 bules ; body rounded before the dorsal fin and compressed 

 behind it ; dorsal central ; insertion of the ventral under 

 the middle of the dorsal ; caudal even or slightly concave 

 at the extremity ; back and sides yellowish brown, mottled 

 and spotted with dusky ; the lateral line and under side 

 brownish white. Linn., Penn. Brit. Zool., iii. p. 379 ; 

 D<m. Brit. Fish^ pi. 22 ; Yarr. Brit Fish., i. 427. 

 Sp. 116. C. tcenia. Groundling. Body lanceolate and com- 

 pressed, the scales small ; a large spine just behind each 

 nostril ; mouth small and the nose produced ; relative 

 position of the fins as in C. barbatula, caudal rounded at 

 the extremity ; colour and markings nearly as in the spe- 

 cies just named. Linn., Penn. Brit. Zool., iii. p. 381. 

 Botia teenia, /. E. Gray, Zool. Mis., p. 8 ; Yarr. Brit- 

 Fish., \. 432. 



FAM. XIV. Esocidai. Pike Family. Dorsal fin singk, no 

 adipose fin; mouth large and with sharp teeth; wpper jaw 

 formed by the intermaxillary, and, when this is not the case, 

 maxillary is without teeth and concealed in the substance of the 

 lips. 



GEN. LVI1I. Esox. Snout long and depressed ; body elon- 

 gated, the back rounded ; teeth in both jaws, as well as on 



