LIST OF FISHES COLLECTED IN THE RIVER PEI-HO, AT 

 TIEN-TSIN, CHINA, BY NOAH FIELDS DRAKE, WITH 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVEN NEW SPECIES. 



By James Francis Abbott. 



The fishes comprising the collection described in the following paper 

 were obtained from the Pei-Ho River in 1898 by Dr. Noah Fields 

 Drake, professor of geology in the Imperial University of Tien-Tsin, 

 China, and by him presented to the zoological museum of the Leland 

 Stanford Junior University. Specimens of the new species described 

 in this paper have been deposited in the U. S. National Museum. 

 The writer is indebted to the courtesy of President David Starr Jordan 

 and Prof. Charles Henry Gilbert, of Stanford University, for the 

 privilege of working over the collection. He is also indebted to Mr. 

 Kinichiro Mayeda for material assistance. 



The following species are described as new: 



1. Toxabratnis argent if er. 5. Parapelecus macliseritis. 



2. OuUicula emmelas. 6. Culter tientsinensis. 



3. Pseudogobio drakei. 7. Salanx hyalocranius. 

 4- Lenci^cus sciistius. 



FAMILY SILURID^E. 



PARASILURUS ASOTUS (Linnaeus). 



Four specimens, length: 270, 280, 255, and 110 mm. The band of 

 vomerine teeth continuous in the larger specimens, interrupted in the 

 smaller one. 



PSEUDOBAGRUS VACHELLII (Richardson). 



Seventeen .young specimens, average 1. 85 mm. Maxillary barbel 

 does not reach end of head. Occipital process very narrow. 



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