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34. Spirinchus verecundus sp. nov. (Plate I, fig. 2.) 



Type No. 4570, 5.75 inches, Chinnampo, Korea; cotype, No. 4097. 



Allied to Osmerus or Spirinchus tJialeichthys Ayres, from the coast of Cali- 

 fornia. 



D. 10; A. 13; V. 8; scales 6-64; depth 5.6; head 5.5; eye 3.66 in head; 

 snout 3.66; interorbital 3.66; maxillary 2.5; number of branchiostegals 7; gill- 

 rakers numerous, slender, about 12-24; lateral line median. Teeth on vomer, 

 palatines, and tongue moderate, canine-like, none of them very large, those on 

 jaws very minute. Body slender, compressed, long; dorsal and ventral outlines 

 similar; head rather stout, flat on top; snout bluntly pointed; lower jaw slightly 

 projecting; mouth rather large; maxillary reaching pupil; eye moderate, elevated, 

 nearer tip of snout than gill-opening. Scales rather small, cycloid, none on 

 head. 



Dorsal short, rather high, inserted midway between tip of snout and base 

 of caudal; third ray longest, 1.33 in head; distance between insertion of dorsal 

 and adipose dorsal exactly one-third the length of the body; caudal deeply 

 emarginate; pectoral moderate, 1.33 in head, reaching slightly over half-way to 

 ventrals; ventrals inserted under anterior third of dorsal, reaching half-way to 

 anal; anal short, inserted two-thirds of its length before adipose dorsal. 



Color dusky above, darkest on back and in a stripe along lateral line; under 

 parts and all fins pale. 



Described from three specimens 5.75 inches in total length, taken at 

 Chinnampo, Korea. The type is Number 4570 in the Carnegie Museum. A 

 cotype is in the collection of Stanford University. 



Family SALANGID^.. 



35. Salanx hyalocranius Abbott. "Shirano." 



Chinnampo, River Kanko, near Fusan (No. 4253a-d and 4524a-g). Other- 

 wise known only from about Tientsin. Locally abundant. This species is 

 Eperlanus chinensis of Basilewsky {Ichthyographia Chinee Borealis, 1855, p. 242), 

 but the name chinensis is preoccupied in Salanx, for the "Whitebait" of 

 Southern China. 



Fig. 11. Salanx hyalocranius Abbott. (Proc. U. S. N. M., Vol. XXIII, p. 491.) 



