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F. Day — Monograph of Indian Cyprinida. [No. 3, 
Geographical distribution. — This genus which exists in Central and 
Eastern Europe has also its representatives in India and China. 
Synopsis op species. 
1. Misgurms lateralis, D. 10, A. 8. Barbels ten ; body longitudinally banded, 
ooellns on base of caudal. Bengal. 
2. „ anguilUcmdatus, D. 2/7, A. 8. Barbels tens body irregularly dot- 
ted, a black spot on base of caudal. China. Japan. 
1. Mr so hunts latekalis. 
Gunther, Catal., vii, p. 346. 
B. III. D. 10, Y. 7, A. 8. 
Length of head 1/6, of caudal 1/6, height of body rather lass than 
1/6 of the length. Eyes ; diameter 2/9 of length of head, nearly 2 diame- 
ters from end of snout. Head and body compressed. Barbels ten, the 
inner mandibular pair vory 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 broad brown band, runs along the middle of the side, and is separated from 
the brown back by a yellowish band ; 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| inches long was received. 
2. MiSOUENUS ANCHriLLICAIIDATUS. 
Colitis anguilliccmdata, Cantor, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1842, p.485; Bichard., 
Voy. Sulph. Fish., p. 143, pi. 55, fig. 9, 10. 
Colitis hi/u.rcuta, McClell., C. J. N. Hist., 1844, p. 400, pi 23, fig. 1, 
? „ pectoraUs, McClell., 1. o., fig. 3, (Pect. fins elongated). 
„ micropus, Cuv. and Val., xviii, p. 29. 
„ psa/mmismus, Richard, Ioh. China, p 300. 
„ rubripinwis et rmculata, Temm and Schleg, Fauna Japon, pp. 220, 221, 
t. 103, fig. 1, 2. 
,, decemcirrhosus, Basilewsky, M£m, Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1855, p. 239, 
? Colitichthys enalios, Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo. Neerl., viii, Japan, vi, p. 88, 
t. 2, fig. 4, (Pectoral fins elongated.) 
Misgumus anguUlicaudatus, Gunther, 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.) 
