89. SMILIOGASTER. 327 



dorsal fin midway between the root of the caudal and the front margin 

 of the eye. 

 China. 



a. Five and a half inches long. Froui the Haslar Collection. 



5. Chanodichthys pekinensis. 



Abramis pekinensis, Busiletcsliy, Nuuv. Mem. Sue. Nat. Mosc, x. 1855, 



p. 2.39, tab. G. fig. 2. 

 Purabianiis pekinensis, Bleek. Nederl. Tydschr. Dierk. 18G4, p. 22. 

 Culter pekinensis, Xticr, Novai-a, Fisch. p. 300, taf. 14. fig. 3. 



D. 10. A. 34. V. 9. L. lat. ca 50. L. transv. 11/9. 



The osseous dorsal ray is not serrated, strong, and as long as the 

 head. The height of the body is contained thrice in the total length 

 (without caudal), the length of the head five times and one-half. 

 Profile of tlie nape concave. The -diameter of the eye is longer than 

 the snout, its length being one-fourth of that of the head. Upper 

 jaw overlajiping the lower. Tlie pectoral fin is scarcely shorter than 

 the head. Origin of the dorsal fin midway between the root of the 

 caudal and the supero-postcrior angle of the operculum. (Blkr.) 



Peking. 



There are several not unimportant discrepancies between Bleeker's 

 and Kner's accounts of this fish ; the latter was not acquainted with 

 the description given by Bleeker, and erroneously quotes " Pseudo- 

 cuUerjiekincnsis, Blkr.," in the synonymy, which name is intended 

 for a different fish. 



The following species is an aberrant form of this genus, if it is not 

 a hybrid : — 



6. Chanodichthys leuciscnlus. 



? Culter leucisculus, Basilewsky, Nouv. M4m. Soc. Nat. Mosc, x. 1855, 



p. 238. 

 ? Ilemiculter leuciscnlus, Bleek. Ci/pr. Prodr. p. 401 . 

 Culter leucisculus, Kner, Novara, Fisch. p. 362. 



D. 9. A. 15. L. lat. 50. L. transv. 8|/?. 



The height of the body equals the length oi the head, which is 

 one-fourth of the total (without caudal). Cleft of the mouth obUque, 

 of moderate width, with the upper jaw slightly the longer. Origin 

 of the dorsal fin behind the ventral, and behind the middle of the 

 total length (caudal not included). Pectorals nearly reaching ven- 

 trals. Abdomen keeled to the vent. [N.B. Abdomine non com- 

 presso, Basilewskif]. Air-bladder bUobed. (Kner.) 



China. 



89. SMILIOGASTER. 

 Smiliogaster, Bleek. Atl. Ichthyol. Cyjn-. p. 33. 

 Body elevated, miich compressed, the entire abdominal edge being- 

 trenchant. Scales small ; lateral line nearly straight. Jaws of 



