75J. ABRAJUS. 2i){) 



Cephalus mantschuricus, Jiasikicski/, Xoxr. Mem. Sac. Xaf. Moscoti, x. 

 1 855; p. 235, tab. 7. fig. 3. 



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



There arc about fifteen longitudinal scries of scales bet"S\'een the 

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

 is nearly 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 Icngtli to the postorbital part of 

 the head. 



China. 



a. Stuffed, 15 inches long: type of L. loipo]}htliahnns. Proscnted 

 by J. R. Eeeves, Esq. 



2. Hypophtlialmichthys uobilis. 



Leuciscus nobilis, {Gray') Richards. lehtlnjul. Voy. Salj'h. p. 140, 



pi. G3. fig. 3 ; and Ichthyol. China, p. 295. 

 Cephalus hypophtlialmus, Stcindachuer, J^crh. zool.-hot. Gcs. IVicn, 



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

 Hypophtlialmichtliys niaudschuricus, Kncr, Xovara, Fischc, p. 350 



(not syuon.). 



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



There are about seventeen longitudinal scries of scales betAVcen 

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

 head is scarcely one-third of the total (without caudal). Moutli 

 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. Stufi'ed, 14| inches long: type of the species. Presented by 



J. R. Eeeves, Esq. 

 h. Fine specimen. Amoy. Erom Consul Swiuhac's Collection. 



Twelfth Group. ABEAMIDI^TA. 



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

 pressed. 



79. ABRAMIS* 



Abraniis, Cuv. JRegne Ait. 



Abramis, Blicca, Bliccopsis, Ballerus, d Alburnus, sp., Jlrclrf, in 

 Rtissegger's Reisen, i. p. 1032. 



* 1. Cypriuus gibbosus, Pall. Zoogr. Boss. -As. iii. p. 324. — Russia. 



2. Leuciscus parv\ilus, C. cf- V. xvii. p. 64, pi. 487*. — Crimea. — A. 21. 



3. Abramis frivaldszkvi, Heeled, in Bnsscggcr's Reisen, i. p. 1032. — Eriissa 



(Natolia).— A. 20-22. L. Lit. .52-53. L. transv. 9/?. 



4. Luxilus seco, Girard, in Proc. Ac. Kaf. Sc. Phil. 1856, p. 203 ; U. S. 



cj- Pac. P. R. Exp. Fish. p. 281.— Rio Seco, Tex;i.s. - A. lU. 



5. lucidus, Girard, in Proc. Ac. Nat. t'c. Phil. ISoG, )). 203 ; and iu 



