248 CYPRINIDJE. 



I have examined over a hundred specimens of this species from various parts of the 

 Nile from Gondokoro to its mouth. The largest measures 105 millimetres, exactly 

 the maximum size indicated by Ruppell. The species is rather constant in its 

 characters ; only in one specimen (from Luxor) have 1 found the number of branched 

 dorsal rays reduced to 7 ; only eight specimens had 4-| series of scales above the lateral 

 line in front of the dorsal, whilst a ninth (from Fashoda) is remarkable in having that 

 number on the left side, whilst the right side shows the normal number, 5J. 



List of specimens examined : — 



1 Lake Menzaleh, in shallow water near shore at Ghet-el-Nassara. — Loat, 21.5.99. 



7 Ghet-el-Nassara, L. Menzaleh, in pools o£ fresh water having no connection with the lake. — 



Loat, 21.5.99. 

 5 Lower Nile.— Petherick, 1861. 



1 Bosetta branch of Nile, downstream side o£ Barrage. — Loat, 29.7.99. 

 18 Damietta branch of Nile, downstream side of Barrage. — Loat, 3.8.99. 



4 Nile at Cairo.— Ruppell, 1833. (Types.) 



5 Nile at Cairo.— Loat, 2.7.00. 



1 Nile near Cairo. — Loat, 14.3.99. 



6 Near Cairo, in a canal by side of road leading to Pyramids of Giza. — Loat, 7.3.99, 6.4.99. 

 10 Giza.— Capt. Flower, 27.2.06. 



20 Embabeh.— Capt. Flower, 15.6.04. 



20 Beni Souef.— Loat, 8-9.99. 



5 Nile between Abu Tig and Assiut. — Loat, 1.12.99. 

 20 At a regulator near Luxor. — Loat, 10-11.00. 



9 Between Luxor and Assuan. — Loat, 9-10.00. 



8 Assuan.— Loat, 12.99-1.00. 



1 Rosaires, Blue Nile. — Capt. Flower, 6.05. 



3 In a kore, Gharb-el-Aish, White Nile. — Loat, 6-14.4.01. 



6 In a kore, Fashoda. — Loat, 14-31.3.01. 

 1 Nile at Gondokoro. — Loat, 4.2.02. 



The above list shows the species to be much rarer in the Blue Nile and in the White 

 Nile than in the Nile proper. 



According to Ruppell, "Perince" is the name of this little fish on the Cairo Market. 

 The following list of native names is supplied by Mr. Loat : — " Ala " (f\), at Beni 

 Souef; "birbisa" (jc^y), at the Barrage N. of Cairo, Cairo, Kafr-eLZayat ; 

 "fdhddd" (*^i) is a fellaheen name for this fish in the neighbourhood of Cairo; 

 " bazrameetd " (juu^j^j), another name at the Barrage N. of Cairo ; " gela " (2U-), at 

 Assiut; "fdbrd" (t^U), at Akhmim. 



Young specimens caught in Lake Menzaleh and in small pools, in swampy reedy 

 ground, at Ghet-el-Nassara, were regarded by the fishermen as young " hinnimma " 

 (Labeo). 



