770 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vm,. xxvi. 



Scales minute, and embedded in the skin; bead apparently naked. 



OriiJiin of the dorsal midway between the tip of the snout and the 

 base of the caudal; the hoio-ht of the dorsal is greater than the depth 

 of the body, and whcMi depressed its leno-th is only a little less than 

 that of the head; anal entirely behind the dorsal, and reaching more 

 than half the space l)etween its own origin and the base of the caudal; 

 caudal about equal to the depressed dorsal, truncate, its margin straight, 

 and with sharp corners; pectorals rather long, three-fourths the length 

 of the head, and halfway in the space between their own origins and 

 those of the ventrals; ventrals below and just a trifle behind the origin 

 of the dorsal, and reaching more than halfway in the space between 

 their own origins and that of the anal. Caudal peduncle long, com- 

 pressed, its length alxmt e(jual to the pectoral and its least depth about 

 2i in the head. Lateral line continuous, median along the sides. 



Color in alcohol pah brown above, with about 15 large blotches of 

 deep brown; a dark streak from eye to tip of snout; head lineh' mot- 

 tled with dark bi'own above: dorsal and caudal whitish, with broad, 



Fig. 2.— Ortiikias oreas. 



deep, brownish cross bars; pectorals, anal and ventrals whitish, with 

 dusk}' blotches, indistinct on the latter tins; lower surface on the head 

 and trunk whitish. 



Length 3yV inches. 



Tj'pe, a specimen in the nuiseum at Sapparo, kindly loaned to us ])y 

 Mr. S. Nozawa. Locality, Chitose, in Il)uri, a province of Hokkaido. 

 This specimen, received from the Sapporo Museum, is the only example 

 of the species Ave have seen. 



(opeia^, of the hills.) 



4. COBITIS (Artedi) Linnseus. 



CW/(7,/s Aktedi, Genera, 1738 (nonbinoniial). 

 Oj6(Y/s Lixx.ia-s, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1758, p. 303 {Urnia). 



Acanthojms Agassiz, M6m. Soc. Sci. Nat. Neuchatel, I, p. 36 {Lruia, not of \'an 

 Tlasselt, 1823). 



liody elongate, more or less compressed, and the back not arched. 

 Head elongate, compressed; eyes small; snout produced, blunt and 

 rounded; mouth small, inferior, and with six barbels about the upper 



