0. 1.534 JAP A NESE C YPRINOID FISHES— J OR DA N A XD FO I VL Ell. 881 



ip of snout; mouth small, protractile downwards, inferior, the max- 

 llary not reaching- nostrils; lips broad, flesh}', and covered with well- 

 ileveloped papilla?; a rather short, thick, maxillary barbel; teeth 

 mall, 6 or 5, 2 — 2, 5 or 6; interorbital space broad and concave, 

 ntestine short. Peritoneum silvery. Scales moderate, cycloid, about 

 r2. Origin of dorsal nearer tip of snout than ])ase of caudal; origin 

 ^f anal far l)ehind tip of depressed ventral; caudal cmarginate; ven- 

 Irals inserted w ell l)ehind origin of dorsal. Lateral line almost straight 

 )r very slightly decurved and continuous. Dorsal and caudal Avith 

 'listinct narrow lilackish cross-bands. 



Streams of Japan and Formosa. 



[if'svyg false; (johlo.) 



13. PSEUDOGOBIO ESOCINUS ( Schlegel) . 

 KAMASUKA (SCYTHE FISH): KAWASAKI (RIVER-POINT). 



(UiJno csocimis Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poipt?., 1846, \). 196, pi. xax, (i<^. 2, 

 near Nagasaki. 



IW'udogobio esocinus GiJS'TnKR, Cat. Fish., VII, 1868, p. 175: fronione of Schlegel's 

 tyjies. — Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom., Paris, 1883, p. 3 reprijit; Lake Biwa. — 

 IsHiKAWA, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 15; Yeshigo, Tama, Chichibu, Snwa.'Sliinsliin, 

 Owari, Lake Biwa at Matsubara, Katsuwa R., Yamashiro, Kyoto, Kurunia.— 

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



Head 3|; depth 6; D. II, 8; A. 11, 7; F. 10; V. 8; scales 42 in the 

 lateral line; 5 scales in an oblique series between origin of dorsal and 

 lateral line, and 5 scales between the latter and middle of belly: phai-- 

 yngeal teeth 6 or 5, 2—2, 5 or 6; width of head 2 in its length; snout 

 2 in head; eye 5; interorbital space 4:\; pectoral If; ventral If. 



Body elongate, rather slender, tapering behind, and somewhat com- 

 pressed. Head elongate, pointed, and compressed; snout long, com- 

 pressed, concave above, and slightly produced beyond the mandible, 

 the tip bluntly rounded; eye rather small, 2f in snout, high, and 

 nearer the posterior edge of opercle than the tip of the snout; mouth 

 small, protractile downwards, and inferior, the nraxillary not reaching 

 posteriorly as far as the nostrils; lips very broad and fleshy, and cov- 

 ^.red with well-developed papilhe, a rather short thick maxillary 

 barbel equal to two-thirds the eye; pharyngeal teeth small, slender, 

 !ompressed, hooked, and those in the lesser row very small and fee])le; 

 aostrils together and nearer the eye by two-thirds the length of the 

 snout; interorbital space broad and concave, and the top of the head 

 ilso concave. Gill-openings large and the membranes broadly united 

 to the isthnms, forming a rather fleshy flap on each side below: gill- 

 .-akers developed as numerous soft stumpy excrescences; gill-Hlaments 

 long- and very numerous. Intestine with a single convolution. Tcn- 

 boneum silvery. 



Scales large and cycloid, none on the breast; no pectoral thip; 



central flap present. 



