CYPEINODON. 



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covered with more or less distinct round light (in life, blue) spots ; 

 caudal fin of male with 2 or 3 crescentic black bars. 



Total length 80 millim. 



Fresh and brackish waters round the Red Sea and Persian Gulf; 

 Cutch, N.W. India. — Types in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfort-a.-M. 



Fig. 12. 



1-12. Ad. & her. 



13-15. Types. 

 16-21. Ad. 

 22. Skel. 

 23-50. 

 51-50. 



57-78. Types of C. 

 stoliczkanus. 



Cyprinodon dispar. 



3 2 > types, Abyssinia. (F. N.). 



Khor Arbat, fresh-water stream A. L. Butler, Esq. (P.). 

 running out of the moun- 

 tains N. of Suakin. 



Coast of Abyssinia. 

 Muscat. 



Gala, near Muscat. 

 Makulla, Persia. 

 Cutch. 



Dr. Riippell (C). 

 Col.A.S.G.Jayakar(I\). 



E. Lort Phillips, Esq. (P.). 

 Dr. F. Stohczka (C.) ; 

 F. Day, Esq. (P.). 



3. CYPRINODON IBERUS. 



Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xviii. p. 1G0, pi. cccccxxviii. (1846) ; Playf. & Letourn. 



Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) viii. 1871, p. 390. 

 Lebias ibericus, Steind. Sitz. Ak. Wien, Hi. i. 1865, p. 483, pi. — . figs. 1-3. 



Structurally also barely distinguishable from C. fasciatus, but body 

 rather shorter. The specimens in the collection have 9 or 10 rays 



Fig. 13. 



Cyprinodon iberus. 

 d , type, after Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



in the dorsal and anal and 26 to 28 scales in the lateral line. 

 Male with 16 to 20 dark vertical bars on the body, and 3 to 5 on 



