188 Annals of the Carnegie INIuseum. 



Peters, Monatb. Konigl. Akad. Berlin, 1880, p. 926. — Sauvage, Nouv. 



Arch. Mus., 1881, p. 190. — Gunther, Ann. Mus. St. Petersburg, 1896, 



p. 19; Kansu; China. — • Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad., 1897, p. 60; 



Swatow. — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad., 1899, p. 179; Tan-lan-ho, 



China. — Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 340; 



Japan. — Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), XIII, 1904, p. 192; Yunnan-Fu, 



China. — Vaillant, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat., 1904, VI, p. 298; Tongking. — 



Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXX, 1906, p. 834; Japan. — 



Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XLII, 1912, p. 404; Hakodate; Tokyo; 



Takamatsu River. — Jordan, Snyder, & Tanaka, Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, 



XXXIII, 1913, p. 60; Japan. 

 1846. Cohilis maculata Temminck & Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., p. 221, 



PI. cm, Fig. 2; near Nagasaki. 

 1846. Cobilis nibripinnis Temminck & Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., p. 220, 



PI. cm, Fig. i; near Nagasaki. 

 1846. Cobilis micropus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., XVTII, p. 29, China. 

 1846. Cobilis psammismiis Richardson, Ichthyol. China, p. 300; Canton, China. 

 i860. Cobitichthys enalios Bleeker, Act. Soc. Indo-Neerl., VIII; Japan. — IV, 



p. 88, PI. II, Fig. 4; Japan. 

 i860. Cobiiichlhys dechachraus Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl., VIII; Japan. 



—IV, p. 89, PI. II, Fig. 2; Tokyo. 

 1868. Misgurnus dechachraus Gunther, Cat. Fish., \TI, p. 346; Tokyo. 

 1878. Misgurnus crossochilus Sauvage, Bull. Sc. Philom., Jan., p. 4; Koaton, 



Cochinchina. 

 1907. Misgurnus fossilis anguilUcaudalus Berg, Proc. U. S. Nat. IVIus., XXXII, 



p. 435; Amur Province. 



Head 6 in length; depth 7; D. 9; A. 7; P. I, 9; V. 6; width of head 

 2 in its length; eye 3 in snout, 1.66 in interorbital space; snout 2.5 in 

 head; pectoral 1.6; ventrals 2; scales about 140. 



Body elongate, compressed; head small, triangular, compressed; 

 snout rather long, obtuse, somewhat produced; eyes small, anterior 

 and superior; mouth inferior, with thick fleshy lips; ten barbels, four 

 belonging to the mandible; the longest barbel 2.5 in head; nostrils 

 close together, in front of eye, the anterior in a short tube; interorbital 

 space slightly convex; gill-openings lateral; gill-membranes joined 

 below in front of the base of the pectoral. 



Origin of dorsal about midway between tip of snout and tip of caudal, 

 a little in front of the ventral; anal fin entirely behind the dorsal, 

 nearer the origin of the ventral than the base of caudal; pectoral fin 

 short and low; the caudal oblong, broad, rounded, nearly as long as 

 head; caudal peduncle long and deep, its depth about two-thirds of 

 the length of head. 



Head naked, trunk covered with small cycloid scales; lateral line 

 extends along the middle of the sides. 



