79. ABEAMIS. ' 299 



Cephalus mnntscliuricus, Basikioshy, JVoiw. Mem. Soc. Nat. Moscou, x. 

 1855, p. 235, tab. 7. fig. 3. 



D. 10. A. 17. L. lat. 115. 



There arc about fifteen longitudinal series of scales between the 

 lateral line and the root of the ventral fin. The length of the head 

 is nearl)^ one-fourth of the total (without caudal). Mouth narrow, 

 the diameter of the eye being about two-thirds of the length of the 

 snout. Pectoral fin nearly equal in length to the postorbital part of 

 the head. 



China. 



a. Stuffed, 15 inches long : type of L. 7iiij}oj)?iiJiahnus. Presented 

 by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



2. Hypophthalmichthys nobilis. 



Leuciscus uobilis, (Grai/) Hicltarda. Icliflii/ul. Voij. Sidph. p. 140, 



pi. 63. fig. 3 ; and Ichthyol. China, p. 295. 

 Cephalus hvpophthalmus, Steinduchmr, Verh. zuol.-bot. Ges. Wien, 



18G6, p. 383, taf. 3 (not synon.). 

 Hypophtlialmichthys mandschuricus, E:ne); Novura, Fisclie, p. 350 

 (not syuou.). 



D. 10. A. 10. L. lat. 115. 

 There are about seventeen longitudinal series of scales between 

 the lateral line and the loot of the ventral fin. The length of the 

 head is scarcely one-thii'd of the total (without caudal). Mouth 

 wide, the diameter of the eye being less than one-half of the length 

 of the snout. Pectoral fin longer than the postorbital part of the 

 head. 

 China. 



a. Stuffed, 1-ih inches long: tj-pe of the species. Presented by 



J. R. Reeves, Esq. 

 h. Fine specimen. Amoy. Erom Consid Swinhoe's Collection. 



Twelfth Group. ABRAMIDmA. 

 Anal flu elongate. Abdomen, or part of the abdomen, com- 

 pressed. 



79. ABRAMIS*. 



Abramis, Cuv. lih/iie An. 



Abraiuis, Blicca, ' Bliccopsis, Ballerus, cf Alburnus, sp., Heeled, in 

 Jiiis.iefff/er's Itciscn, i. p. 1032. 



* 1. Cyprimis gibbosus, Pall. Zoogr. Eoss.-As. iii. ]). 324. — Eussia. 



2. Leuciscus i)avviiUis, V. # V. xvii. p. G4, pi. 487*.— Crimea.— A. 21. 



3. Abramis frivaldszkvi, Hcckel, in rn'sscggcrs Ecisoi, i. p. 1032. — Brussa 



(Natolia).— A. 2U-22. L. lat. 02-53. L. transv. 9/?. 



4. Liisilus seco. Girard. in Proc. Ar. Kaf. .S'c Phil. 1856, p. 203 ; U. S. 



.f- P(i<: I>'. E. E.rp. Fish. p. 281.— Eio Seco, Texas. -A. 10. 



5. — — lucicUi.'!. Girard, in P>-oc. Ac. Nat. Se. Phil. 1850, p. 203 ; and in 



