Vol. 31, pp. 15-20 May 16, 1918 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 







NEW CHINESE FISHES. 



BY JOHN TREADWELL NICHOLS. 



The American Museum of Natural History has recently ac- 

 cumulated a small collection of fresh-water fishes from China. 

 These have come from two widely separated sources, firstly from 

 Yunnan-fu, Yunnan Province, collected by Mr. John Graham, 

 secondly from Futsing, Fu-kien Province, collected by the 

 Museum's Asiatic Zoological Expedition of 1916-17, about 

 July 25, 1916. 



Only one species is common to the two lots, the Goldfish, 

 Carassius auratus (Linnaeus) . 



Owing largely to small collections sent to the British Muse am 

 by Mr. Graham over a period of years, the fishes of Yunnan are 

 comparatively well known. It will suffice merely to mention 

 those species in the Yunnan lot already known from that local- 

 ity: namely (Catfish) SUurus mento Regan, Macrones medianalis 

 Regan, Liobagrus nigricauda Regan; (Carps) Misgurnus anguil- 

 licaudatus (Cantor), Nemachilus nigromaculatus Regan, Cyprinus 

 carpio Linn., 2 barbelled form, Cyprinus micmims Regan , Barbus 

 grahami Regan ; (others) Ophiocephalus argus Cantor . Monopte- 

 rus sp. (see beyond) . 



Five species in the Fu-kien lot are well known fishes, namely 

 (Carps) Acanthogobia maculatus (Bleeker), Zacco platypus (T. & 

 S.), known from Japan, Opsariichthys bidens Giinther; (others) 

 Anguilla japonica T. & S. Channa ocellata Peters. Mr. H. R. 

 Caldwell contributes interesting data on Channa. This fish is 

 abundant near sea level in the vicinity of Fu-chau, and also 

 occurs, though in less numbers, at Yen -ping. It prefers stag- 

 nant water and will travel across country to get from one pool 



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