204 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



ending before or above anal, with more than eight branched rays. 

 Anal short, with five branched rays. Scales moderate or small. 

 Lateral line running into the middle of the tail, sensory tubes un- 

 divided. Gill-membranes broadly united with isthmus. Gill-rakers 

 usually short. Phar^'ngeal teeth in three series, hooked, 5, 4, 2-2, 4, 5 

 (Weber & Beaufort). 



Distribution: Sumatra; Java; Borneo; Africa; India; Ceylon; 

 Burma; Cochin-China; China; Formosa. 



18. Labeo jordani sp. nov. (Plate XLIX, Fig. 3). 

 Kenhii (Formosa). 



1903. Rohila decora Jordan & Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, p. 321; 

 Formosa (not of Peters). 



Head 5 in length; depth 3; D. 3, 12; A. 3, 5; P. 15; V. 9; forty scales 

 in the lateral line, eight scales in an oblique series between origin of 

 dorsal and lateral line, nine scales between the latter and the middle of 

 belly; width of head 1.83 in its length; snout 2.33 in head; inter- 

 orbital space 2; eye 5; pectoral 1.076; ventral slightly longer than 

 head; teeth 5, 4, 2-2, 4, 5. 



Body compressed, rather high, abdomen rounded; head short, 

 lateral parts of the occiput slightly depressed; snout obtusely rounded 

 anteriorly, overhanging the upper lip, with no tubercle nor lateral 

 prolongation; mouth inferior, transverse, crescent-shaped, with thick 

 lips; upper lip entirely fringed, with a distinct inner fold below; lower 

 lip not fringed, with an inner fold, its edge sharp and covered with a 

 horny substance; barbels two, rostral, nearly one-third as long as 

 snout; maxillary barbels none; eye rather small, slightly anterior and 

 superior; nostrils close together, in front of the eye; pharyngeal teeth 

 high, their grinding surface flat, brown-colored; gill-rakers numerous, 

 minute, setiform, and closely set. 



Origin of dorsal nearer tip of snout than base of caudal, its upper 

 margin concave, its base covered with a series of pointed scales, an- 

 terior ray longest; anal fin entirely behind the dorsal, nearer the base 

 of caudal than origin of ventral; ventral long, with well-developed 

 scaly flap, inserted below fourth divided dorsal ray; pectoral fin shorter 

 than ventral, reaching three-fifths of the distance to ventral; caudal 

 fin bilobed, tip of each lobe sharply pointed; caudal peduncle rather 

 short, its depth 1.4 in head. 



Body covered with large scales with fine* concentric rings and 



