FISHES FROM FORMOSA— JORDAN AND EVERMANN. 



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Head 4.25; depth 4.25; eye 3.2; snout 4; interorbital 3; D. !>; A. 

 11; scales 9-47—1. Body short and xQvy greatly compressed; back 

 somewhat arched; head moderate, mouth rather large, slightly oblique, 

 the jaws sube(iual, the snout rather pointed; scales very thin, cycloid, 

 lateral line running very low; jaws and cheek with a number of phos- 

 phorescent spots; origin of dorsal nearer tip of snout than })ase of 

 caudal, the tin \'ery high, its rays greater than length of head; caudal 

 forked; anal tin very lai'ge, the rays nearly twice the length of head; 

 ventrals short, reaching origin of anal; pectoral long and falcate, half 

 longer than head, reaching middle of ventrals. 



Color in alcohol, silvery-olivaceous above, the side with about eleven 

 broad, dark, plumbeous cross-bars, suggesting the parr marks in a 

 young trout; membranes of dorsal tin dark brown or almost black near 

 center of fin; membranes of anal fin dark; other fins pale. 



Type. — No. 12230, a specimen 3.5 inches long, froniTaihoku. This 

 is numbered 7129 Stanford Universitv Museum. 



24. ACHEILOGNATHUS MESEMBRINUM Jordan and Evermann, 

 new species. 



Head 4; depth 2.S; ey€ 3.5; snout 4; maxillary 3; mandible 2.5; 

 interorbital 2.5; D. 8; A. 15; scales S-38-5. 



Body short, deep, and very greatly compressed, hcaiing some resem- 

 blance to the American species called CyprhicUn; head small and 

 pointed; mouth moderate, somewhat oblique, the jaws subequal, max- 

 illary reaching anterior edge of orbit; scales large and well imbricated; 

 lateral line running low, genth' decurved under front of dorsal, and 



