464 KAM.UaCHI KISHINOUYE: 



than the length of the head. The middle limb of the coi-selet is prolonged 

 backwai'd nearly the eutiro length of the lateral line. 



The dark coloured portion of the lateral muscle is nearly equally lai"ge in 

 the hypasial and epaxial portions. 



Depression aloug the suture between the prootic and the alispheuoid is 

 sharply defined and naiTow, and the shelf at the anterior border of the de- 

 pression is obsolete. Only two intermuscular bones have the middle portion 

 non-ossified. The lateral process of the second vertebra is short and thick. 

 Neural process of some anterior vertebrae is not so broad as in the preceding 

 species. The haemal arch of the first caudal vertebra makes a right angle with 

 the epihaemal spine. From the lower end of the epihaemal spine a pair of 

 short free processes is produced downward and forward in some caudal veiiebrae. 

 Free jDarapophyses from the lower end of the epihaemal process are short, and 

 are but a little separated fi'om each other. 



Tliis species seems to bj more abimdaut than the j^recechng species. In 

 distiibution nearly the same as the latter. Known from South-Manchuria as 

 well. Caught in pound-nets, set-nets, drift nets, rods and lines, etc. 



Grows to a weight of ca. C40 g, the smallest species in the Plecostei. 



Very poor food-fish, consumed fi"esh or salted. 



Auxis tapeinosoma of Bleeker seems at first sight to be identical with this 

 species, but not exactly, as the dorsal finlets of the former ai'e charactei-ised 

 as 9 in number. 



