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GONOEHYNCHUS. 
The formation of this genus is due to Gronovius (ZoopTiylacion) , 
but the sort on which it was established was placed by Gmelin and 
Bloch with Cyprinus. It is to Cuvier, in the first edition of the 
“ Eegne Animal,” that we owe the first modern notion of this fish; 
but he leaves it with his Gyprinoidm. In the nineteenth volume 
of the “ Histoire des Poissons,” Mr. Yalenciennes places it in the 
Malacopterygii, between Glianos and Mormyrus. Dr. Gunther, 
in his “ Catalogue of the Pishes of the British Museum,” formed 
for it a separate family (Gowor%»cAidce), between Scotnbresocidoe 
and Osteoglossidce. The typical species was from the Cape of 
Good Hope, but Dr. Eichardson described and figured a second 
one from Hew Zealand and Western Australia, under the name 
of Mynchana Greyii (Erelus and Terror). I believe, also, that 
my genus Onathendalia “ Memoire sur les Poissons de I’Afrique 
Australe,” p. 56, comes very near to this genus, which was 
unknown to me at the time; hut I have not the speci- 
mens with me; it was formed on a small fish I found in 
great numbers near the Moravian Mission of Gnadenthal, in the 
Cape of Good Hope colony. I considered it also to belong to the 
Gyprinidce. In reference to this fish I beg to add, that it is on 
this subject that Dr. Gunther quotes, for the first time in 1868, 
my paper on the fishes of South Africa, written by me in 1858, 
and published in 1861, [and he does it, of course, in an abusive way. 
Considering this sort as a Gyprmidce, I tried, in a short notice, 
to distinguish it from the other groups then known. He pre- 
tends not to perceive that it is by a misprint that the river, which 
feeds it, is called Genadendal ; “ evidently,’ says he, “ meaning 
the well known Gnadenthal.” It is likely that this locality is 
better known to me who have been there several times, than to 
Dr. Gunther ; and the name given to the fish is a sufficient proof 
that the mistake belongs to the printer. As to the name itself, I 
gave it the Prench pronunciation in a Prench work. I must 
also add, that in the excellent map of South Africa, published by 
Henry Hall, the mountains where it is situated are called 
Genadendal. No one, of course, expects any indulgence from 
Dr. Gunther on icthyological subjects, but on geographical ones 
he might be more lenient, as he could hardly attribute to others, 
