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form cycloid scales; ventral with a scaly flap; lateral line continuous, 

 slightly decurved in front, running along the middle of the tail. Color 

 in alcohol grayish above, belly and lower parts of sides silvery; head 

 dark; all the fins dusky, fin membranes reddish; caudal fin uni- 

 formly dark, interspace between the middle raj'S reddish. Total 

 length 220 mm. 



Type No. 49,948, A. N. S. P. Buraku River, Ako, collected 

 by Eiji Matsuda on February 2, 1919. 



Also paratype, Kwaren River at Kado, Kwarenho. It shows: 

 Head 4.53; depth 3.43; fins as in type; head width 1.60; inter- 

 orbital space 2.18; snout 2.66; eye 4.50; scales 8 — ^43 — 7; length 

 138 mm. 



21. Hemibarbus labeo (Pallas). 

 Heirinbi, Giran (1); Taihoku (3). 



22. Barbodes paradoxus (Gunther). 



Five from Ako. 



23. Puntius snyderi Oshima. 



One from Nankan River at Ogyuran, Nanto. 



24. Spinibarbus hoUandi Oslilma. 



Ako (2); Rinraku, Ako (2); Shukoran River at Suibi, Kwarenko 

 (3) ; Kwaren River at Kada, Kwarenko (20) . 



25. Spinibarbus elongatus new species. Plate IV, figure 2. 



Head 3.58 in length; depth 5.27; D. in, 8; A. ii, 5; P. 16; 

 V. 9; width of head 1.59 in its length; eye 6 in head; interorbital 

 space 3.12; snout 2.67; pectoral 1.36; ventral 1.53; 28 scales in 

 the lateral line, 4 in an oblique series between origin of dorsal and 

 lateral line, 5 between the latter and the middle of belly, 2 between 

 the lateral line and the root of ventral; pharyngeal teeth 5, 3, 2-2, 

 3, 5; gill-rakers 3 -|- 11. Body elongate, low, slightly compressed; 

 head elongate, rounded, dorsal outline convex; interorbital space 

 broad, more or less compressed, with many mucous cavities around 

 the orbit; snout long, rounded anteriorly; eye rather small, anterior 

 and superior; nostrils close together, in front of eye; mouth sub- 

 inferior, maxillary scarcely reaching a vertical through anterior 

 border of nostril; upper lip fleshy; lower lips not continuous, dis- 

 tinct at the angle of the mouth; upper jaw slightly longer than the 

 lower, protractile; anterior margin of the lower jaw" rounded, rather 

 sharp; barbels four, the rostral reaching beyond the nostrils, much 

 more slender and shorter than the maxillary which reaches far be- 

 yond the orbit; gill-openings moderate; gill-rakers on first arch 



