NO. 1334. JAPANESE CYPRINOID FISHES— JORDAN AND FO WLER. 85 8 



lateral line, and 6 scales between the latter and the middle of the bell}-, 

 pharyngeal teeth 5, 4, 1 — 1, 4, 4; width of head 2 in its length; snout 

 4 in head; eyes 4; interorbital space 3; pectoral li; ventral If. 



Body moderate!}^ elongate and compressed. Head moderate and 

 compressed; snout slightly conical, pointed and not projecting; eye 

 moderate, anterior and superior; mouth obliciue, the jaws moderately 

 thick and al)out equal; maxillary protractile and reaching beyond the 

 anterior margin of the orbit; no barbels; pharyngeal teeth without 

 grinding surface and slightly hooked; nostrils close together on the 

 sides of the snout and nearer the eye than the tip of the former; inter- 

 orbital space and top of head rather broad and convex. Gill-rakers 

 short and pointed ; pseudobranchiffi present. Intestine with few turns. 

 Peritoneum black. 



Scales moderate and somewhat narrowly imbricated along tlie sides; 

 pectorals with a small, fleshy flap; ventrals with a pointed, scaly flap. 



Origin of dorsal midwa}" between tip of snout and base of caudal; 

 when depressed reaching slight!}' beyond the origin of the anal, and 

 the base of the tin 2i in head; origin of anal inserted a little nearer tip 

 of pectt)ral than base of caudal and its base 2 in head; caudal d(M*]ily 

 emarginate and the lobes pointed; pectorals long and terminating near 

 the origin of the ventrals; ventrals reaching for three-quarters the 

 distance to origin of anal. Caudal peduncle li in head and its least 

 depth 2f in head. Lateral line strongly decurved and continuous to 

 base of caudal along lower. 



Color in alcohol dark l>rown above, pale or silvery ])elow; sitUs with 

 a distinct deep brown, lateral band, broader and darker posteriorly: 

 dorsal and caudal grayish, the former with dark streaks between the 

 flu rays, and the other tins more or less pale. 



Length, 4i inches. 



This description from a male taken at Kawatana. This locality, 

 together with the Mogi River, near Nagasaki, are the oidy places 

 where the species was obtained by Jordan and Snyder, ^^'e have 

 numerous specimens from Mogi. 



This species is close to Zacco sJehohU, and is distinguished chiefly 

 by its larger scales and having the maxillary reaching to or slightly 

 beyond the anterior margin of the eye. Breeding males have horny 

 tubercles on the sides of the head and about the snout. 



(Named for Prof. C. J. Temminck of Ley den, the associate of 

 Schlegel.) 



