214 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



ventral beneath the dorsal, not reaching the anal; anal rather short, 

 anterior ray the longest; caudal fin emarginate, tip of each lobe pointed. 



Scales moderate, cycloid; lateral line nearly straight, extending 

 along the middle of sides, very slightly decurved. 



Color in formalin dark gray above, lower parts of sides dusky yellow; 

 belly whitish; sides with seven dark brown cross-bars, of which the third 

 and fifth reach the back, the others shorter; membrane of the dorsal 

 with a black streak between each ray; caudal fin dusky; other fins 

 whitish. 



Total length 6i mm. 



The present description is from a specimen from Taiko River, 

 collected by T. Aoki in December, 1916. 



Habitat: Taiko River (a single specimen, young fish). 



Remarks: In Giinther's original description there is no statement 

 about the dark cross-bars on the sides. Probably they had disap- 

 peared, as his specimens from Formosa were adults, measuring from 

 eight to eight and one-half inches in length. 



Genus Capoeta Cuv. & Val. 



1842. Capoeta Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., XVI, p. 278. (Tjpe Capoeta 

 fundulus Cuv. & Val.) 



Body elongate, compressed, rather deep; head moderate; snout 

 somewhat pointed, nearly as long as the eye. Mouth narrow, sub- 

 inferior; upper jaw slightly overlapping the lower; barbels two, maxil- 

 lary, slender. Scales large, about twenty-five in the lateral line. 

 Dorsal fin with three osseous spines, the third strongly serrated behind; 

 eight branched rays, fin inserted in advance or opposite to the origin 

 of the ventral; anal fin rather short. Pharyngeal teeth 5, 3, 2 — 2, 3, 5; 

 lateral line running along the' middle of the sides. 



Distribution: Malay Archipelago, India to South China. 



23. Capoeta semifasciolata (Giinther). 



Anbakutai (Formosa). 



1868. Barbus fasdolalus GDnther, Cat. Fish., VII, p. 140; China (not of page 108). 



1868. Barbiis semifasciolalus Gxjnther, Cat. Fish., VII, p. 484; China (substitute 



for B. fasciolatus of page 140; B. fasciolattis pre-occupied). 

 1 87 1. Puntius {Capoeta) giintheri Bleeker, Mem. Cyprin. Chine, p. 9 (substitute 

 for B. fasciolatus Giinther of page 140, /. c). 



Head 3.66 in length; depth 2.8; D. Ill, 8; A. 2, 6; P. 13; \'. 9; width 

 of head 1. 71 in its length; eye 3 in head; interorbital space 2.33; 



