ABDOMINAL M ALACOPTKRYGl aNS. 1 7r> 



vays in the anal; is noi mucli esteemed, being chiefly used as food 

 for other fishes in ponds*. 



Labeo, Cuv. 



The Labeons have the dorsal long, as in the Carps properly so called, 

 but both the spines and cirri are wanting; remarkably thick, fleshy lips, 

 frequently crenated. They are all foreign to Europe f. 



Catastomus, L 



esueur. 



The Catastomes have the same thick, pendent and fringed, or crenated 

 lips, as in Labeo; but the dorsal is short, like that of a Leuciscus, and is 

 opposite to and above the ventrals. From the rivers of North America J. 



Leuciscus, Klein. 



The Abies, commonly called White Fishes, have the dorsal and anal 

 short; neither spines nor cirri ; nothing particular about the lips. This 

 subdivision is rich in species, but they are not much esteemed. They 

 are known in different parts of France by the various and rather indistinct 

 appellation of Meunier, Chevanne, Gardon, &c. § 



We distinguish them according to the position of their dorsal, a charac- 

 ter, however, which is not always sufficiently clear. In some the dorsal 

 is opposite to the ventrals. Of this group we find in France, 



L. dohula; Cyp. dobula, L., Bl. 5; Le Meunier. The head 

 broad, and snout round ; pectorals and ventrals red. 



L. idus; C. idus; Le Gardon, Bl. C, and better, Meidinger, 36. 

 About the same colours ; the head narrower, back higher, and snout 

 more convex. 



L.rutilus; Cyp. rutilus, L. ; La Rosse, Bl. 2, (The Roach). 

 Body compressed, silvery ; red fins. 



L. vulgaris; Cyp. leuciscns; La Vandoise, Bl. 97, 1". 1. (The 

 Dace). Body straight ; fins pale ; snout slightly prominent. The 



L.nasus; Cyp. nasus, h.; Le Nez. (The Nase). Is taken in the 

 Rhine ; its snout is more salient and obtuse than that of the Leu- 

 ciscus [I. 



* Add three fishes which ascend the tributaries of the Baltic: the C. ballerus, Bl. 

 9, the C vlmha, L., Bl. 4, and the C. Buggenhagii, Bl. 95; and of foreign species, C. 

 cotis, Buch., pi. sxxix, f. 93. 



t C. mloticus, Geoft". Poiss. du Nil, pi. ix, f. 2;— C. fimbria t us, Bl. 409, to which 

 must be added the Catostomus cyprinus, Lesueur. 



X M. Lesueur describes seventeen species, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. of Philad. 1817, 

 vol. I, p. 88 et seq. and figures nine of them; the first, however, Cat. ci/primis, must 

 be abstracted, as it is rather a Labeo. Add, Cypr. teres, Mitch, op. cit. I, vi, 11, and 

 the Cyprin sucet, Lacep. V, xv, 2. 



§ Bloch and his successors have not adhered to the customary application of these 

 French names, which they have distributed almost at random. 



II Add, C. grislagine; — C.jeses, and of foreign species, C. pala, Cuv., Russ. 207; — 

 C. tola, Cuv., Russ. 208;— C. hoga, Buch. Pise. Gang., pi. xxviii, f. 80;— C. mnla, lb. 



