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.^he caudal ; a dark spot above the giU opening; dorsal and caudal dark 

 'or blackish with indistinct narrow l)ands, the other fins paler, but all 

 lof them more or less tinted with ))r()wni.>5h. 



Color in life, steel blue; sides ])right crimson, with silver luster; 

 ;two blue bars at shoulder; belly and lower tins crimson, witii dark 

 shades. 



[I Length, 4 inches. 



' This description from a specimen from Lake Biwa at Matsul)ara. 

 |0f this species we have very many specimens from Matsubara on Lake 

 Biwa, from the Yodo River at Osaka, from the Chikugo River at 

 (Kurume, from the springs of Funayado in Kiusiu, Lake Yogo near 

 (Wakanogo, above Lake Biwa, and several examples from the coUec- 

 Ition of K. Otaki, from near Karasaki on Lake Biwa. It is the largest 

 lof the minnows of its tribe, and is almost everywhere common south 

 |of Tokyo, in the larger streams and ponds. Li life it is brightly 

 colored, the fins largely red. 



[j {poju/5og^ diamond.) 



S. ACHEILOGNATHUS Bleeker. 



AcheUognnthus Bleeker, Irlith. Archipcl. Imlic. Prodr., II, ISIK), p. 228 

 [meJanogaster). 

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j Body more or less deep and compressed; head short; eye more or 

 less large; snout rather short and blunt; mouth small, the maxillary 

 not reaching the eye; maxillaries each with a l)arl)el; teeth 5 — 5, 

 (Smooth, with a narrow grinding surface; interorbital space rather broad. 

 (Intestine long. Peritoneum black. Scales large, some of those on 

 the sides imbricated, 3() to 39. Origin of dorsal about midway in the 

 length of body without caudal, base of fin moderate, with 8 to 10 

 {developed rays; anal with 8 to 10 developed ra3\s; caudal deeply 

 emarginate; ventrals generally inserted a little before origin of dorsal. 

 jLateral line slightl}" decurved, and continuous. 



I Small fishes of the streams and lakes of Japan, Formosa, and China, 

 differing from Par(ichello<jn<ifhH>< in the shorter dorsal and smooth 

 edged teeth. 

 (a. without; jf/Aoj:. lip; yvoKpog^ j'lw.) 



a Shoulder with a more or less distinct, dark shoulder spot al)Ove <rill-openinp; sides 

 with a more or less distinct longitudinal band posteriorly; belly hlack in adults, 

 the color of the peritoneum showing through. 

 /* Barbels short, seldom more than half the eye; shoulder spot and hitoral hand 



very distinct /imlxitn, .">. 



bb Barbels long, somewhat less than the eye; shoulder spot and lateral band very 



indistinct or absent lanceolatu, 4. 



aa Shoulder without dark spot above gill opening; a longitudinal dark ban<l l)egin- 

 niiig abruptly in a dark l)lue spot over pectoral on the sixth scale from liead 

 and continued to base of caudal nianogligma, 5. 



