50. AMBLTPHARYNGODON. 201 



young, and not in a good state of preservation. The lateral line is 

 absent. Whether this is to be regarded as a specific character in 

 these fishes cannot be decided from young examples only 



a-d. Young, Madras. Purchased of Mr. Day. 



2. Nuria alta. 

 Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxix. 1801, p. 162. 



D. 8. A. 7. L. lat. 32. L. transv. 7 (?). 

 Upper filaments of great length, more than reaching to the anal 

 fin. Pectorals reaching to the ventrals. The height of the body is 

 one-fourth of the total length (with the caudal). Sides with a 

 broad yellow band surmounted by a nearly obsolete black streak. 

 A black spot above the base of the pectorals. {Blyth.) 

 Tenuasserim. Four inches long. 



49. APHYOCYPRIS. 



Scales large ; lateral line incomplete. Dorsal fin short, without 

 spine, opposite to the interspace between ventral and anal fins. 

 Airal fin with seven branched rays. Caudal forked. Snout with 

 verj' thin lips ; mouth oblique. Suborbitals rather broad. Barbels 

 none. Pharyngeal teeth conical, hooked, in a double series. 



China. 



1. Aphyocypris chinensis. 

 D. 9. A. 9. y. 7. L. lat. 32. L. transv. 9. 



The length of the head is contained thrice and two-thirds in the 

 total (without caudal), the height of the body four times. Head 

 moderately compressed, the interorbital space being rather broad. 

 The diameter of the eye is a little more than the length of the snout, 

 or tnan one-fourth of the leiigth of the head. The origin of the 

 dorsal fin is behind the ventrals, and midway between the root of the 

 caudal and the occiput. Cleft of the mouth sub vertical, broad, of 

 moderate width, the maxillary scarcely extending to the front 

 margin of the orbit. Lower jaw scarcely projecting beyond the 

 upper. Uniform silvery. 



Chikiang. 



a. Twenty-two lines long. From Mr. Fortune's Collection. 



50. AMBLYPHARYNGODON. 



Mola, Heckel, Fische, Syr. Addend, et Cor rig. p. 257; Blyth, Journ. As. 



Soc. Beng. xxix. 1861, p. 164. 

 Amblypliaryngodon, Bleeker, Prodr. Cgpr. p. 409. 

 Bracliygiamma, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 304. 



Scales small ; lateral line incomplete. Dorsal fin without an 

 osseous ray, with not more than nine branched rays, commencing 

 a little behind the origin of the ventrals ; anal fin short. Head of 

 moderate size, tsrongly compressed ; eye Avithout adipose membrane. 



