r..i334. JAPANESE CYPRINOID FISHES— JORDAN AND FOWLER. 837 



We have man}' specimens from the Yodo River at Osaka in Settsu, 

 the Chikugo River at Kurume, and the Iwai River in Ichinoseki in 



Rikuchu. 



In nonbreeding males, females, and young-, the middle doisal rays 

 are not elongated, the upper edge of the liii being straight, and the 

 sides are marked with rather large and distinct dark blotches. 



[feyi-ioi^ dust.) 



lO. ZEZERA Jordan and Fowler. 

 Zczmt Jordan and Fuwlek, new genus {hllgendorji). 



Body elongate, oblong, and compressed. Head rather small, 

 depressed, and pointed, the upper and lower profiles straight; snout 

 long; eye rather small; mouth small, terminal, oblique; upper lips 

 rather broad; barbels 2; rather long, but shorter than eye; teeth 

 small, 5—5; interorbital space broad and flattened. Intestine short. 

 Peritoneum silvery. Scales small, cycloid, and not imbricated; 42 in 

 the lateral line. Origin of dorsal midway between tip of snout and 

 base of caudal; anal inserted behind tip of depressed dorsal; caudal 

 emarginate; ventral inserted slightly before origin of dorsal. Caudal 

 peduncle rather deep and compressed. Lateral line straight and 



continuous. 



{Zezera, Japanese name of a small minnow, from Zeze, a vdlage at 

 the head of the Yodo River on Lake Biwa, remarkable for its very 

 long bridge, one of the "seven wonders of Omi.") 



i6. ZEZERA HILGENDORFI (Ishikawa). 

 SarcocheiUchthys hilgendor-fi Ishikawa, new species of Japanese fishes Ms. 1902. 



Head 4.^; depth 3f; D. Ill, 7; A. Ill, 6; P. 16; V. 8; scales 42 in 

 the lateral line; 6 scales between origin of dorsal and lateral Ime, and 

 6 between latter and middle of belly; pharyngeal teeth 5-5; width 

 of head li in its length; snout 3 in head; eye 4i; interorbital space 2^; 

 pectoral If; ventral li. 



Body elongate, ol^long, and compressed. Head rather smal , 

 depressed, elongated, pointed, and the upper and lower prohles straight; 

 snout long, pointed; eve rather small, anterior, and about If in snout; 

 mouth small, terminaf, very oblique, the mandible slightly produced 

 in front, the maxillary protractile and not reaching the nostril; upper 

 lips rather fleshy and dilated, the edge of the mandible more or ess 

 horny in the middle; maxillaries each with a barbel that is less than 

 the eve; teeth small, weak, and hooked; nostrils close tog-etber on the 

 sides"of the snout and nearer the posterior extremity of the imxil- 

 lary than the anterior margin of the eye; interorbital space l)road and 

 flattened, or only very slightly convex. Gill-opening rather restricted 

 gill-rakers small, few and weak; pseudobranchi^e present. Intestine 

 short. Peritoneum silvery. 



