284 CLASSIFICATION OF FISHES^ ETC. 



without barbels or cirri ; the dorsal fin lengthened ; 

 the spines serrated. 



C. carpis. Bl. pi. 16. 



Barbus. Dorsal fin shorty nearly triangular ; the spine 

 sometimes serrated ; the mouth with distinct barbels ; 

 the jaws nearly equal. 



B. vulgaris, Bl. pi 18. intermedius. Riipp. NiL 3. 



pi. i. f. 2. 



Salmophasia Sw. Body lengthened ; lips rather thin ; 

 mouth wide ; the jaws equal ; the lip of the upper 

 recurved ; dorsal fins small^ placed near the caudal, 

 and just above the anal^ which latter is lengthened; 

 ventral fin very small, central, with a lanceolate ap- 

 pendage ; pectoral fin large, pointed. 



oblonga. Sw. Ham. fig. 76. elongata. Gray. Ini Zool. 

 ( Cyp. bacaila^. ( Cyp. cora). 



Catastomus. Lips very thick, tuberculated, plaited, or 

 crenated ; dorsal spines simple, without serratures. 



Lahio Cuv. Lips crenated ; lower jaw shortest ; barbels 

 or cirri either very short or wanting ; dorsal and ven- 

 tral generally long. 



L. filamentosus. Sw. Ham. fig. 84. (^Nandina). 



Lahiobarbus Riipp. Lips excessively thick, the under 

 one short, fleshy, and hanging downward ; upper lip 

 with barbels ; anal fin largest. 



L. nidgia. Riipp. Nil. 3. pi. 2. f. 3. 



Catastomus Le Sueur. Both lips very thick, and 

 plaited, the lower hanging downwards ; mouth very 

 small, placed beneath the snout ; cirri or barbels 

 entirely wanting ; anal fin without a lanceolate ap- 

 pendage * at the base. 



C. communis Xe Sueur. Am. Bostonienses. lb. pi. 24. 



Tr. i. pi. 25. aureolus. lb. pi. 23. 



gibbosus. lb. i. pi. 29. Aberrant. 



macrolepidotus. lb. pi. 30. cyprinus. lb. pi. 26. 



Dusquesnii. lb. 27. elongatus. lb. 28. 



* This process, common to the Indian type, is neither mentioned nor 

 delineated by Le Sueux as existing in any of those here quoted from his 

 paper on this genus. 



