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Depth 2.3 in body-length to last vertebra, D. Ill, 8; A. II, 10 or 11; scales in 

 lateral line 33, in transverse series between insertions of dorsal and anal 6/4; 

 pharyngeal teeth 5-5. 



Head 4 in body-length; eye 3.12 in head, snout 4, with tubercles in breeding 

 males; gill-rakers short, 2 + 7; pharyngeal teeth smooth, not plicate, hooked, with 

 narrow grinding surface, without color; caudal peduncle strongly tapering, its 

 length 1.3 in head, its depth 2; lateral line complete; barbel long, sUghtly shorter 

 than snout. 



Dorsal inserted nearer base of caudal than tip of snout, distance from snout 

 to first ray 1.66 in body; dorsal base slightly less than four-fifths of length of head, 

 its height 1.5 in head; anal inserted under second branched ray of dorsal, its base 

 equal to that of dorsal; its height 2 in head, its margin straight; ventrals inserted 

 before dorsal, their length slightly greater than anal height; pectorals 1.3 in head. 

 Color plain, without stripes or spots on body, although as a whole darker than 

 usual and with the line of the back very dark; dorsal margined narrowly with black; 

 a broad band of white below the. margin as wide as pupil, the lower part so shaded 

 as to form an indistinct dark band below the white; anal dusky, similar to the dorsal, 

 but stripes less distinct, margin straight; ventrals and pectorals clear; peritoneum 

 black. 



This species is easily distinguished from all others of its genus in Japan by its 

 greater depth, plain coloration, and fewer number of scales in the lateral line. 

 53. Acheilognathus intermedius (Temminck & Schlegel). 

 Lake Biwa, at Matsubara, No. 6258 many. 

 Capoeta intermedia Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Pisces, 1846, p. 203, PI. C, Fig. 4, near Nagasaki. 

 Acheilognathus intermedius Giinther, Cat. Fishes, VII, 1869, p. 278, after Schlegel. — Sauvage, Bull. Soc. 

 Philom., 1883, p. 3; Lake Biwa. — Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 12; Tokyo, Yodo River at Kyoto; 

 Maebara and Matsubara on Lake Biwa. 

 Acheilognathus mclanogaster Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo. Nederl., Japan, VI, p. 92, pi. 11, fig. 1, Tokyo.— 

 Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom., 1883, p. 3; Lake Biwa.— Giinther, Cat. Fishes, VII, 1868, p. 278, 

 Tokyo, from Bleeker's types. — Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 12, Lake Biwa, Owari. — Giinther, Shore 

 Fishes. Challenger, Repts., 1880, p. 72; Lake Biwa. 

 Acheilognathus lanceolata Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 344; Lake Biwa. — 

 Jordan & Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVI, 1903, p. 819; Tsuchiura, Chikugo River, Yodo River. 

 Lake Biwa, Katata, Lake Yogo, Wakanoura, Owari, near Nagoya (not specimens from Funayado), 



This species is here described from very numerous specimens, adult and young, 

 from Lake Biwa, at Matsubara, in part the collection of Dr. Jordan in 1911, and in 

 part specimens previously recorded from that locality by earlier authors and now in 

 the collection of Stanford University. They are the originals of Acheilognathus 

 lanceolata Jordan and Fowler. 



