192 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



less than the head; ventrals below dorsal. Air-bladder inclosed in a 

 bony capsule. Lateral line incomplete. Small fresh-water fishes of 

 Europe and Asia (Jordan & Fowler). 



Distribution: Europe; Assam; Bengal; China; Formosa; Corea; 

 Amur province; Japan. 



13. Cobitis taenia Linnaeus. 



1758. Cobitis tania Linn.eus, Syst. Nat. Ed. X., p. 303; Europe. — Gunthep, 



Cat. Fish., VII, 1868, p. 362; Europe; Japan. — -Jord-^n & Fowler, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVI, 1903, p. 771; Japan. 

 1846. Cobitis ttenia japonica Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., p. 222, PI. CIII, 



Fig. 2; near Nagasaki, 

 1875. Cobitis sinensis Sauvage & De Thiersant, Ann. .Sci. Nat., Ser. 6, I, p. 8; 



Setchuan, China. — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1899, p. 182; 



Tan-lan-ho, China. — Jordan & Metz, Mem. Carneg. Mus., \'I, 1913, p. 12; 



Suigen; Gensan; Fusan, Corea. 

 1901. Cobitis biww Jordan &: Snyber, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, p. 748; 



Lake Biwa (substitute for Cobitis japonica pre-occupied). — Jordan, 



Sn\T)er, & Tanaka, Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXXIII, 1913, p. 62; Japan. 



Head 5 in length; depth 6.166; D. 8; A. 7; P. 10; V. 7; width of 

 head a little over two in its length; snout two times in head; inter- 

 orbital space 5.33; eye 5.5; pectoral 1.5; ventral 1.66. 



Body elongate and compressed; head elongate, strongly compressed, 

 with conve.x upper profile; snout long, somewhat produced, anterior 

 border bluntly rounded; eyes small, superior and lateral, located 

 midway between tip of snout and gill-opening; mouth small, inferior, 

 with fieshy lips, the lower bilobed; eight barbels, two of which are 

 mandibular; nostrils nearer the eye than the tip of snout, close 

 together, the anterior in a short tube; interorbital space narrow; gill- 

 openings large, lateral; gill-membranes united below the base of the 

 pectoral in front. 



Origin of dorsal nearer the base of caudal than the tip of snout, 

 somewhat in advance of ventral, length of dorsal when depressed a 

 little less than the length of head; pectoral a little longer than one- 

 third the distance between its base and origin of ventral; ventral 

 twice in the space between its origin and that of the ventral; anal fin 

 entirely behind the dorsal, reaching two-thirds of the space between 

 its origin and the base of caudal; caudal peduncle compressed, its 

 depth slightly less than twice in head. 



Head naked, trunk covered with ver>' small cycloid scales; lateral 

 line very short, extending a little beyond the middle of the pectoral. 



