208 CYPBINIDJE. 



of which an allied species, L. cyprinacea, Blainv., is known to attack the European 

 Barbel, settling on the fins and scales. 



The Bynni or Lepidotus of the ancients shared with the Oxyrhynchus and the Lates 

 the honours bestowed on sacred animals, as testified not only by its image in 

 inscriptions or in bronze models, but also by numerous embalmed specimens. 



The above excellent representation of the Bynni (fig. 24) is from a bronze model 

 in the collection of Mr. Walter L. Nash. Other models, such as the one also figured 

 (fig. 25), for a photograph of which I am also indebted to Mr. Nash, although clearly 

 recognizable as to the species, are less satisfactory representations, the ventral fins 

 being placed far forwards. 



2. BABBUS DUCHESNIL 

 (Plate XXXV. fig 1.) 



Boulenger, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) x. 1902, p. 433. 



Body strongly compressed, its depth three to three and a half times in the total 

 length, length of head three and four-fifths to four and one-fourth times. Snout 

 rounded, three to three and a half times in the length of the head, diameter of eye four 

 to five and one-fourth times, interorbital width three times ; mouth inferior, its width 

 about four times in the length of the head ; lips moderately developed, the lower con- 

 tinuous across the chin but usually not forming a free lobe ; barbels two on each side, 

 subequal or posterior a little the longer, once and three-fifths to twice the diameter of the 

 eye, which equals the distance between them. Dorsal fin with IV 8-9 rays, last simple 

 ray very strong, bony, not serrated, straight or very slightly curved, three-fourths to 

 four-fifths the length of the head, or as long as the head in the young ; the edge of the 

 fin strongly emarginate ; its distance from the occiput a little less than its distance 

 from the caudal. Anal fin with III 5 rays, longest ray three-fourths to five-sixths 

 the length of the head, reaching or nearly reaching the root of the caudal in the adult. 

 Pectoral fin nearly as long as the head, narrowly separated from the ventral, which is 

 below the anterior rays of the dorsal. Caudal fin deeply forked. Caudal peduncle 

 once and a half as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 29-33 p (excep- 



AX 



tionally p), 2J or 3 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. 



The specimens in Mr. Degen's collection were iridescent green and blue in life, all 

 the fins dark slate-colour; iris dark, with a fine yellow circle round the pupil. 

 Mr. Zaphiro's notes give the colour as dark olive above, white below, ventral and anal 

 fins white, caudal yellow, blackish at the end. 



The length of the largest specimen is 300 millim. 



