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face; lateral line complete; barbel nearl}^ obsolete, but present as a knob on end 

 of maxillary; caudal peduncle slightlj' longer than usual, 4 in body-length, its 

 depth 10 in body-length. 



Dorsal inserted nearly midway between snout and base of caudal, its base 1.5 

 in head, its height 1.5; anal inserted under sixth branched ray of dorsal, its base 2 



Fig. ,5. Acheilognathus cyanostigma Joidau & Fowler. (From Proc. U. S. N. M., Vol. XXVI, 

 p. 821). 



in head, its height 1.66; its margin straight; pectoral 2 in body-depth ; ventral equal 

 to pectoral, inserted below origin of dorsal. 



Color in alcohol plain, save for the lateral stripe of blue-black originating the 

 width of a scale above the fifth or sixth scale of lateral line in a black spot as large 

 as pupil and continued parallel to line of back to center of caudal, not reaching 

 caudal fin; the anterior end of band frequently faint and the initial spot small; 

 no shoulder spot; dorsal dusky, with a black line on first of distal half of rays, the 

 black margined above and below by narrow white or clear stripes, the margin of 

 fin sometimes touched with black; anal similar, but paler in strongly pigmented 

 forms, with a broad margin of white; ventrals and pectoral clear, the former 

 occasionally black. 



52. Acheilognathus limbatus (Schlegel). 



Capoeta limbata Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1846, p. 203, pi. C, Fig. 5; near Nagasaki. 

 Achilognathus limbatus Giinther, Cat. Fishes, VII, 1868, p. 277; from one of Schlegel's types. 

 Acheilognathus shimasui Tanaka, Ann. Zool. Jap., VII, Part 1, 1908, p. 3; Tokiwa, on Lake Biwa. 



Among the specimens recorded as Acheilognathus lanceolatus from Funayado, 

 Kiusiu, Japan, by Jordan and Fowler, is a third species, evidently identical with 

 Capoeta limbata Schlegel. 



The following description is based upon a specimen 56 mm. in total length, 

 44 mm. in body-length, and five smaller males and females, the smallest 34 mm. in 

 body-length. 



