l7() Eejjort on some FisJws receioed from the Sitang Biver. [No. 2, 



might have been included in Pangio ; and very closely akin to it, 

 again, must be the Cobitis micropus, Val., from China, in wbicli 

 the ventral fins are minute,*— but this would appear to have no infra- 

 ocular spine. M. Valenciennes, however, remarles of it— " La caudale, 

 arrondie, a deux carenes charnues sur le dos ou sur la base de la 

 queue, qui semble augmenfcer la longuear de la nageoire ou simuler 

 une sorte d' adipose." This exactly describes what is seen in our 

 largest specimen of Apua fusca; but in the others the ridge is 

 continuous. O. micropus should constitute another generic coup ; 

 and another again oceurs in the Mtsgurna, Lacépéde, founded on 

 the European (O.) FossiLis.f This last is akin to the first división of 

 Acanthopis, but is still more elongated, subcylindrical, or only a 

 little compressed laterally, and it has no infra-orbital spine, but an 

 indication of the facial slit that conceals tlie spine in all the preced- 

 ing. It has thereí'ore been held to conduct to the spineless Loches, 

 to which, for tbe present, I restrict — 



VIL — Cobitis, L. TypeC. barbatula of Europe. These never 

 have the head so much compressed as in the majority of Spined Loches, 

 and in some it is even broader than the body : the latter also tends in 

 many of them to be subcylindrical rather than compressed. Some, 

 however, are moderately compressed, approaching to the form of 

 Botia, but more elongated ; having also a large dorsal fin of many 

 rays : such is — 



C. rubidipinnis, nobis, n. s. A fine species, 4f in. long, by J- in. 

 deep, and \ in. broad ; fully i in. between the eyes ; from eye to 

 muzzle f in. ; and head from gill-cover | in. ; the dorsal fin nearly 

 1 in. along its base. Six well developed cirri ; and a peculiar charac- 

 ter consists in a short broad obtuse spine-like process projecting from 

 the middle of the upper lip : tail somewhafc rounded. General colour 

 olive-brown with a ruddy wash, paler below ; the fins tinged with 

 red ; dorsal and caudal fins transversely rayed with dusky, the other 

 fins without markings. On the dorsal are four or five rows of dark 



* He terms it " la Loche aux petites ventrales." 



f Another, again, perbaps, in certain rather elongated Loches of China, which 

 have ten cirri ; as the O. bifürcata and O psctoralis, McClelland, and C 

 ANGüiLLiCATJDATA, Cantor, figured by Sir J. Bichardson in the Zoology of the 

 Voy age of the Svlphur. 



