NO. 1221. FISHES COLLECTED AT TTEN-TSIN— ABBOTT. 491 



Dorsal 16. Anal 30. Head -i^; depth (at anal) 2^ in head. Snout 

 2f ; eye 6 in head. Depth of head about 2 in its greatest breadth, 

 which latter is equal to the distance from tip of snout to center of 

 pupil. Interorbital 3i in head. Mouth large and broad, the lower 

 jaw projecting. Teeth in both jaws rather moderate in size, larger at 

 symphysis, strongly recurved, none of the teeth piercing the upper 

 jaw. Tongue toothed. Skull hyaline, all the details of the brain 

 showing clearly even in alcoholic specimens. Pectorals with 27 or 

 more rays, the base of the fin fleshy. Ventrals inserted 2f of body 

 length from snout. Anal large and prominent, its base about 1\ 

 of the length of head, two-thirds of head in height. Caudal peduncle 

 slender, caudal deeply forked. End of dorsal base on the verticle 

 from first ray of anal al^out 1| of head in length, its longest ray 1^ 

 of head. Adipose tin very small, placed above end of anal. Body 



Salanx hyaloceanius, new species. 



apparently naked, with the exception of a single row of a])out 25 

 large, closely imbricate, and deeply embedded scales running just 

 above anal on either side of the body. Body colorless. Caudal tin 

 washed with dark brown. Length 1-1.5 mm. 



Type. — No. 030.5 in Leland Standford Junior University Museum. 



In a large nmiiber of cotypes (No. 6306), ranging from very young 

 to 180 nun., the dorsal runs to 17 and occasionally to 18, and the anal 

 varies from 28 to 31; also No. 19551, U.S.N.M. 



This species is probably identical with Ejjerlamfas cJiinensis Basil- 

 ewsky, from Pekin, but the name chiiieiisis is already used for the 

 "Whitebait of Macao." Specimens of this species have also been 

 received by Mr. Otaki from a stream in Korea. 



FAMILY GOBIID^. 



GOBIUS GIURIS Buchanan-Hamilton. 

 Fourteen specimens; average length 10 mm. 



