224 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Color in alcohol dark grayish above, sides beneath lateral line and 

 lower surface silvery; a slaty gray lateral band along the middle of 

 sides; most of the scales with black edges; all the fins grayish. 



Total length 77 mm. 



Described from a specimen from Taihokii, collected by Oshima in 

 December, 1916. 



Habitat: The present species is very abundant in pools and rivers in 

 Formosa. I have a number of specimens from the Tamusui River; 

 Taihoku; Raupi, Giran; Tozen River; Nanto; Rigyokutsu, Nanto; 

 Shinchiku; Ako; Shori, Toyen; Bokusekikaku. 



Remarks: The length of head and the depth of body are variable. 



Genus Pararasbora Regan. 



1908. Pararasbora Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), II, p. 360. (Type Pararas- 

 bora nioltrechli Regan.) 



Scales large, 5.5-6 scales in an oblique series between origin of 

 dorsal and lateral line, 2 scales between the latter and the root of 

 ventral. Lateral line decurved, running along the lower part of 

 the tail. Dorsal fin with seven branched rays, inserted behind the 

 ventral; the anal entirely behind the dorsal, with seven branched rays. 

 Mouth oblique, its angle extending to the anterior border of the orbit; 

 lower jaw slightly shorter than the upper, with no prominence in 

 front, upper jaw entire, with no emargination. Barbels none. Gill- 

 rakers rudimentary. Pharyngeal teeth in two series, 4, 4 — 4, 4. 



Distribution: Formosa. 



29. Pararasbora moltrechti Regan. 

 Baahii (Formosa). 



1908. Pararasbora moltrechti Reg.\n, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), II, p. 360; Lake 

 Candidius, Formosa. 



1909. Jordan & Richardson, Mem. Carneg. Miis., IV, No. 4, 1909, p. 170; Lake 

 Candidius (after Regan.) 



Head 4. 11 in length; depth 4; D. 3. 7; A. 2, 7; P. 14; V. 7; width of 

 head 1.75 in its length; eye 3.25 in head; intcrorbital space 2.1; snout 

 3.25; i^ectoral 1.2; ventral 1.4; thirty-six scales in the lateral line, six 

 scales in an oblique' series between origin of dorsal and lateral line, 

 two scales between the latter and the root of ventral, four scales 

 between lateral line and the middle of belly; pharyngeal teeth 4, 

 4 — 4, 4; gill-rakers 2 + 6, rudimentary. 



Body elongate, compressed; dorsal and \entral profiles ecpiallj' 



