NO. 1358. JAPANESE SCIJLPINS— JORDAN AND STARKS. 2G9 



line complete. Front of iinal isoiiicwliiil farther from the tip of the 

 snout thiin from th(> base of the caudal. Ventral reaches to anal. 

 Spinous dorsal three-fourths as hio-h as the soft dorsal. (Jill mem- 

 brane not continuous across isthnms. Diameter of eye somewhat less 

 than length of snout, and somewhat <4'reater than interoi-hital width. 

 Tlie ma.xiUarv reat'hes to somewhat behind the midcUe of the eye. 



C'oh)r chocohite brown with darker spots and several irregular cross- 

 bars; tins with spots. Yeso and South Nip})on; fresh water (Ilili^-en- 

 dorf). 



(Named for Professor Rein.) 



19. URANIDEA DYBOWSKII ( Hilgendorf). 



Cottun chihowskil Hilgendorf, Sitz. der (resell, natur. Freuiule zu Berlin, 1S79, 

 p. 106; no locality named. 



Head 2^ in length, without caudal; depth of head 3^. Dorsal IX- 

 li; anal 7 (IT?); pectoral 17; ventrals, 1, 2 {i)\ lateral line 37. 



Vomer toothed. Nasal spines developed. Skin of head with 

 papilla"; sides without prickles. Preopercle with 3 spines, the upper 

 2 directed backward; a smooth spine at the opercle, that on inter- 

 opercle directed forward; superscapular with a spine. Front of 

 anal nearer to the base of caudal than to tip of snout. Ventral not 

 reaching to anal. Diameter of eye equal to length of snout; wider 

 than the interoi'bital. The maxillary nearly reaches to the posterior 

 (xlge of eye. 



Color dark brown marbled with white; underside white; ventral 

 and anal with dark; dorsal, pectoral, and caudal with white bands; 

 back with round light spots in color similar to that on belly. (Hilgen- 

 dorf.) The k)cality of this species is not specilied. 



(Nam(>d for Professor Dybowsky.) 



17. RHEOPRESBE Jordan and Starks. 

 Rlhuprei^lie ,]i.nu).\s and Starks, new genus {fnjiy(t)iuc). 



This genus differs from Cofffis and Traclilderinu.^ in having tln» 

 pectoral raj's all branched; from Coffiis in the flat depressed head 

 with long postorbital portion; body not elevated anteriorly, and par- 

 ticularly in the backward position of the anal and vent, which ar(> 

 well behind the middle of the entire length; ventrals not nearly reach- 

 ing halfway from their l)ase to front of anal. It diH'ers from Tntrh- 

 idcniiiis in luiving the su))orbit{il stay flat as in (off us, the gill 

 menil)ranes widely joined to the isthnms. in not lia\ ing ridges on top 

 of head and in having top of head convex. 



Rivers of flapan. a large fish similar to Coftus in lial>it. but well 

 distinguished by the l)ranched rays of tlu> pectoral. 



{fjico to flow swiftly; nptGfi))^ first boi-n. in allusion to the Japanese 

 name Takitaroo, tirst born of the Cataract.) 



