LOACHES OF JAPAN— JORDAX AXD FOWLER. 771 



paw; below the eye, an erectile bifid spine. Dorsal tin about over the 

 jventrals; anal behind dorsal: caudal rounded or truncate; pectorals 

 jless than the head; ventrals ])elow dorsal. Air-bladder inclosed in a 

 bony capsule. Lateral line incomplete, timall fresh-water tishes of 

 Europe and Asia. Probably all the species described, will l)e referred 

 |to the widely distril)uted and variable form descri})e(l below. 

 I '{cohlfis^ a loach.) 



5. COBITIS TAENIA Linnaeus. 

 TAKANOHADOJO (IIAWK-WING LOACH), SHIMADO.J() (8TRIPED LOACH). 



r()/>(7/,s te;(/a LiNN^iiS, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1758, p. ;Wo; Europe. — ('fvier aii<l 

 Valencienxes, Hist. Poiss., XVIII, 1846, p. 58.— Guntheu, Cat. Fish., \'\\, 

 1868, p. 362; Holland, Bavaria, Sweden, and of authors generally. 



Cobltis t.Tuiajcrponira ScHijEGEia, Fauna Japonica, Poi.s8., p. 222, ])1. ciu. fig. 3, 

 •1846; near Nagasaki (not Cohitis japonica Houttuyn). 



(hbitis mspia Eicn\v.\Li), Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc, 1838, p. 133; near Caspian Sea. 



Cohitig elongafa HECKEi-and Kner, Siissenwasserfisehe Oester., 1858, ])j>. 164, ,305; 

 Austria. 



(Jobltis larvata De Filiimm, Mem. Accad. Torin., XIX, p. 71; Italv. 



Cohitis sinensis Sauvage and De Thieksant, Ann. Sci. Nat., (6) 1875, I, ]». 8; 

 Setchuan, China. — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, p. 182. 



Cohitis hiwcx Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1901, j). 748; Lake Biwa, 

 substitute for Cohitis japonica, preoccupied. 



Plead 41 in length; depth 5i; D. 8; A. 7; P. 10; V. 8; width of head, 

 a little over 2 in its length; snout 2^ in head; pectoral 1^; ventrals If; 

 eye 5f ; interorbital space 5f . 



Bod}' elongate, compressed. Head elongate, much compressed, 

 and with the upper profile convex; snout long, produced, and bluntly 

 rounded; eyes small, superior, lateral, and nearer the tip of the snout 

 than the gill-opening; mouth small, inferior, and with iieshy lips, the 



Slower divided and with two lobes; barbels 8, two of which are mandi- 

 bulars; nostrils nearer the eye than the tip of the snout, close together, 

 and the anterior pair in a short tube; interorbital space narrow, about 



iequal to the eye and convex. Gill-openings large, lateral, and the 

 gill-membrane joined below the base of the pectoral in front. 



J Scales very small on the trunk, none on the head. 



I Origin of the dorsal nearer the base of the caudal than tiie tij) of 

 the snout and a little in front of the ventrals; length of dorsal when 

 depressed a little less than the length of the head and the height of 

 the tin much less than the greatest depth of the l)ody; anal entirely 

 behind dorsal and reaching two-thirds the space between its origin 



jand the base of caudal; caudal equal to depressed dorsal, and rounded; 



[pectoral If in head, and 2i in the space between its own origin and 



'that of the ventral; ventrals 2 in the space between their own origins 



I and that of the anal. Caudal peduncle compressed, its length equal to 

 the pectoral, and its depth a little less than 2 in the head. Lateral 



I line short, only running a little beyond the middle of the pectoral. 



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