1331. JAPANESE CYFRINOID FISHES— JORDAN AM) FO]VJJ:j;. 833 



14. SARCOCHEILICHTHYS VARIEGATUS (Schlegel). 

 HIGOI (SCARLET CARP), ABURAHAE (FAT MINNOW). 



Leiicisciix rariegafii)^ Schlegei,, Fauna Japonit'a, Poiss., 1846, p. 213, pi. cii, i'v^, 

 2; Nagafsaki. 



Fseudo/johio rariei/((li(s OvjiruEii, Cat. Fish., VII, 1868, p. 175; after notes of 

 Bleeker on Schlegel's type. — Ishikawa, Zool. Mag. Tokyo, VII, August, 

 1895, p. 125; Otsu, ]\Iatsubara, and Maebara on Lake Biwa; Prel. Cat., 1897, 

 p. 15; Lake Biwa, Maebara; Matsulmra, Zensho, Tsuyama, .Minasuka R., 

 Kii.— Sauvage, Bull. See. Philom., 1883, p. ?, Lake Biwa. 



SarcocheiUchthys variegatus Jordan and Snyder, Check List, 1901, p. 46; Lake 

 Biwa. 



Head 3| ; depth i; D. Ill, 8; A. II, T; P. 15; V. 8; scales 42 in 



j the lateral line; 5 scales between origin of dorsal and lateral line, and 



1 6 scales between the latter and middle of belly; pharvng-eal teeth 5—5; 



' width of head 1| in its length; snout 2f in head; e3^e 5i; interorhital 



space 3i; pectoral l^; ventral li. 



Body elongate, oblong, moderately deep and compressed. Head 

 I elongate, bluntly pointed and compressed; snout moderately long, 

 compressed, very l)lunt, obtusely rounded and not protruding beyond 

 the jaws; eye small, rather high, 2 in snout, and anterior in the head; 

 mouth small, inferior and protractile, the maxillary reaching as far 

 posteriorly as the posterior nostril; lips thick, rather broad and fleshy, 

 and the lower broadly separated l)y the hard, rounded, horny symphy- 

 sis; a very small and short maxillary barbel; pharyngeal teeth hardly 

 hooked, and with broad grinding surfaces; nostrils rather large, close 

 together, and much nearer the eye than tip of snout; interorbital space 

 broad and convex, and the top of the head also convex, (lill-openings 

 large, and the membranes broadly joined to the isthnms; gill-rakers 

 few, short, and weak; pseudobranchice well developed. Intestine with 

 a single convolution. Peritoneum silvery. 



Scales large, cycloid, and imbricated ah)ng the sides: no pectoral 

 flap; ventrals with a scaly flap at base. 



Origin of the dorsal nearer the tip of snout than the base of the 

 caudal by a space a little less than snout, the upper edge of the tin 

 straight on, only very slightly concave, so that when depressed the tip 

 of the first developed ray reaches posterioi'ly as far as the tip of the 

 last; anal beginning much nearer the origin of ventrals than base of 

 caudal, and the tin reaches more than half way to the latter; caudal 

 forked and the lobes pointed; pectoral rounded and extending two- 

 thirds the distance to base of ventral; ventrals entirely l)ehuKl origin 

 of dorsal, and extending posteriorly two-thirds the distance to anal. 

 Caudal peduncle rather long, compressed, and its least depth 2:1 m 

 head. Lateral line continuous and nearly straight along the sides 



Color in alcohol, dark brown above, below pale, or whitish washed 

 with silvery, the sides more or less brassy; edges of most ot the scales 

 above and on the sides marked with brown; the sides along the lateral 



