202 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



1798. Cyprinus nigroauralus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, p. 547, PL 16, Fig. 2. 



— Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1846, XVI, p. 73. — Richardson, Ichthy. 



China, 1846, p. 290. 

 1798. Cyprinus viridi-violaceus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, p. 547, PI. 16, 



Fig- 3- — Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., XVI, 1846, p. 75. — Richardson, 



Ichthy. China, 1846, p. 288. 

 1846. Cyprinus Jlavipinnis Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., XVI, p. 71. 

 1846. Cyprinus viltalus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., XVI, p. 72. 

 1846. Cyprinus alrovirens Richardson, Ichthy. China, p. 287. 

 1846. Cyprinus flammans Richardson, Ichthy. China, p. 288. 

 1846. Cyprinus acuminatus Richardson, Ichthy. China, p. 289. 

 1846. Cyprinus sculponeatus Richardson, Ichthy. China, p. 290. 

 1846. Cyprinus hccmatopterus Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., p. 189, PI. 96. 

 1846. Cyprinus melanolus Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., p. 190, PI. 97, 



Fig. I. 

 1846. Cyprinus coniroslris Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., p. 191, PI. 97, Fig. 2. 

 1855. Cyprinus chinensis Basilewsky, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc, X, p. 227, 



Tab. 2, Fig. 3. 

 1855. Cyprinus obesus Basilewsky, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc, X, p. 228, 



Tab. I, Fig. 2. 

 1863. Car pio flavi pinna Bleeker, Atl. Ichthyol. Cyprin., p. 74, Tab. 7, Fig. 3. 

 1871. Car pio vulgaris Bleeker. Mem. Cyprin. Cliina, p. 6. 



Head 3 in length; depth 2.86; D. Ill, 19; A. Ill, 5; P. 16; V. 9. 

 Scales 5-35-5; width of head 1.66 in its length; snout 2.5 in head; 

 interorbital space 2.4; eye 7; pectoral 1.33; ventral 1.4; teeth i, i, 3-3, 

 I, I. 



Body stout, more or less compressed; head moderate, triangular; 

 snout obtusely rounded; mouth oblique, with fleshy thick lips, maxil- 

 lar}- reaching a vertical through anterior margin of anterior nostril ; 

 maxillary protractile; upper jaw more or less projecting; four barbels, 

 two maxillary and two rostral, the former nearl}' twice as long as the 

 latter, scarcely reaching the anterior border of orbit; eyes moderate, 

 superior and slightly anterior; nostrils large, close together, in front 

 of eye, the anterior in a short tube. 



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

 two scales before the origin of ventral, triangular and elongate, 

 higher anteriorly, its longest ray about twice in the length of head; 

 pectoral fin large, round, its tip exceeding the origin of ventral; 

 ventrals inserted below the first soft dorsal ray, not reaching the anus; 

 origin of anal nearer base of caudal than base of ventral, inserted 

 below ihc fourteenth ray of dorsal; caudal fin deeply emarginate, tip 

 of lobes sharply ])ointed; caudal peduncle long and deep, its depth 2.1 1 

 in head. 



