198 F. Day — Monograph of Indian Cyprinidce. [No. 3, 



Geographical distribution. — This genus which exists in Central and 

 Eastern Europe has also its representatives in India and China. 



Synopsis or species. 



1. Misgurnus lateralis, ~D. 10, A. 8. Barbels ten. ; body longitudinally banded, 



ocellus on base of caudal. Bengal. 



2. „ anguillicaudatus, D. 2/7, A. 8. Barbels ten; body irregularly dot- 



ted, a black spot on base of caudal. China. Japan. 



1. MlSGURlSTUS EATEEALIS. 

 Giinther, CataL, vii, p. 346. 



B. III. D. 10, V. 7, A. 8. 



Length of head 1/6, of caudal 1/6, height of hody rather less than 

 1/6 of the length. Myes ; diameter 2/9 of length of head, nearly 2 diame- 

 ters from end of snout. Head and hody compressed. Barbels ten, the 

 inner mandibular pah very short. Free portion of tail rather longer than 

 deep. Fins ; dorsal arises midway between end of snout and the root of the 

 caudal, and slightly in advance of the root of the ventral. Pectoral rather 

 longer than the head. Caudal rounded. Scales, very distinct. Colours ; 

 a hroad brown hand, runs along the middle of the side, and is separated from 

 the hrown hack hy a yellowish hand ; a narrow and indistinct brown band 

 on the abdomen ; a black ocellus edged with white on the base of the 

 upper half of the caudal fin. Dorsal and caudal finely mottled with brown. 



Sab. — Bengal from whence one specimen 3-g- inches long was received. 



2. MiSGUEisrus anguillicaudatus. 

 Colitis anguillicaudata, Cantor, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1842, p. 485; Eicbard., 

 Voy. Sulpb. Fish.; p. 143, pi. 55, fig. 9, 10. 



Colitis Ufurcata, McClell., C. J. N. Hist., 1844, p. 400, pi 23, fig. 1. 

 ? „ pectoralis, McClell., 1. c, fig. 3, (Pect. fins elongated). 

 „ micropus, Cuv. and Val., xviii, p. 29. 

 „ psa/nvmismus, Ricbard, lob. Cbina, p 300. 

 „ rulrvpinnis et maculata, Temni and Scbleg, Fauna Japon, pp. 220, 221, 



t. 103, fig. 1, 2. 

 „ decemcirrhosus, Basilewsky, Mem, Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1855, p. 239. 

 ? ColiticMhys enalios, Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo. Neerl., viii, Jajsan. vi, p. 88, 

 t, 2, fig. 4, (Pectoral fins elongated.) 



Misgwnms anguillicaudatus, Giintber, CataL, vii, p. 345. 

 B. III. D. 2/7, P. 9, V. 7, C. 13, L. r. 140, L. tr. 30. 

 Barbels ten, four being mandibular. Fins ; origin of dorsal midway 

 between occiput and base of caudal. Pectoral shorter or as long as the 

 head. Scales, distinct. Colours; body and fins irregularly dotted with 

 brownish black, and generally a small black spot at the upper portion of the 

 root of the caudal fin. 



Sab. — China, Japan, Formosa. 



(To be continued.) 



