840 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvi. 



This description from an example from the Yodo Ri\'er at Osaka, 

 th(> only locality where the spcH-ies was o])tained by us. We do not 

 hesitate to identify these specimens with Ishikawa's l^iutjixjohii) .cezern^ 

 as the characters in the main agree. llo\vev<'r, he does not mention a 

 notch inside the ^ill opening, a character also shared with l^xcKdoiutshorK. 



The oi'ioinal description is as follows: 



Head a little less than 5; depth 5; D. I, 8; A. I, 7; scales 88 in 

 the latei'al line, transversely 4i above and 3^ below; pharyngeal teeth 

 5 — 5; eye 8|^ in head; snout with the front end abruptly turned down, 

 forming a rounded angle with the upper side; eye large; mouth infe- 

 rior, horseshoe shaped, very small; bar])els none; lower jaw with 

 pendant, lateral lips; pharyngeal teeth arranged in two groups of 

 8 and 2. Origin of dorsal tin much nearer to end of wnout than l)ase 

 of caudal. General color, shining, yellowish ocher, }>elow silvery; a 

 series of round, blackish blotches along lateral line; a similar blotch 

 sometimes j)i"esent on the occiput, and also along the dorsum; 3 to 4 

 series of small black spots on the dorsal and the ventrals. Otsu, Mae- 

 bara, and Matsubara, Lake Biwa (Ishikawa). 



12. PSEUDORASBORA Bleeker. 

 Pseudormbora Bleeker, Act. Soc. Indo-Neerl. Japan, VI, 1860, p. 97 (parra). 



Body elongate. Head pointed, compressed; snout bluntly pointed; 

 eye rather large; mouth terminal above, oblique, the mandilile pro- 

 jecting, and the maxillary not reaching nostril; no barbels; teeth 5—5; 

 interorbital space broad and tlat. Inside of gill opening with a notch 

 below. Intestine short. Peritoneum silvery. Scales large, cycloid, 

 and about 38; breast scaled. Origin of dorsal nearer tip of snout 

 than base of caudal; origin of anal begins below tip of depressed dor- 

 sal; caudal emarginate; ventrals inserted below origin of dorsal. 

 Lateral line slightly decurved and continuous. Breeding males with 

 the snout and sides of the head with horny tubercles. 



Small fishes of Japan and China. 



{i^evdijg, false; rasbora, a related genus.) 



i8. PSEUDORASBORA PARVA (Schlegel). 

 MOROKO: IIAYA. 



Leucisms parnts SonLEOEi,, Fauna Japonica, PoIhs., 1846, p. 215, j)!. cii, fig. 3; 



streams about Nagasaki. 

 ■ Pseudorasbora parva Knek, Novara Fische, 1867, p. 355, pi. xvi, fig. 2; Shanghai 



(called Opsaras parvus on plate).— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish., VII, 1868, p. 186; 



Japan, Chi Kiang, China.— Ishikawa, ZooL Mag., VII, 1875, p. 128; Otsu, 



Maebara, Matsubara; Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 14; same localities, also Yodo 



River, Yoga Lake, Shiuia and Zensho.— Jordan and Snyder, Proc. V. S. 



Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1900, p. 344; Karasaki, Lake Biwa; Annot. Zool. Jap., 



Ill, 1901, p. 48; Lake Biwa. 

 LeuclnniH puslUnH Schi.egel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., p. 216, pi. cu, fig. 4; near 



Nagasaki. 



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