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oblique, its angle reaching the nostril below; upper lip thin; lower jaw 

 slightly protruding; eyes moderate, anterior; nostrils close together, 

 in front of the eye above. 



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

 the interspace between ventral and anal, armed with two smooth 

 spiny rays, the second spine is very strong; pectoral elongate, reaching 

 beyond the base of ventral; ventrals rather slender, inserted much in 

 advance of that of dorsal; anal fin very long, anterior ray the longest; 

 caudal fin strongly forked, the tip of each lobe sharply pointed; 

 caudal peduncle rather short, its depth 2.33 in the length of head. 



Body covered with moderate cycloid scales; lateral line slightly 

 decurved, extending along the lower half of the tail. 



Color in alcohol grayish above, belly and lower half of the sides 

 silvery; fins dusky white. 



Described from a specimen from Kagi, collected by Y. Kikuchi. 



Habitat: Kagi (a single specimen). 



Remarks: This species is closely related to Ciilter recitrviceps (Rich- 

 ardson)^ from which it differs in having an entirely carinate abdominal 

 edge and a lesser number of scales in the lateral line. 



CULTRICULUS gen. nov. 

 Type Ciilter lencisculus Kner (not of Basilewsky) = IlemicuUer kneri 



Kreyenberg. 



Body oblong, much compressed, abdominal edge entirely carinate. 

 Scales of moderate size; lateral line continuous, abruptly bending 

 downward above the pectoral, scarcely reaching the tip of the fin, 

 thence advancing backward, ascending gradually, and running along 

 the middle of the sides of the tail. Mouth oblique; jaws subequal; 

 barbels none. Dorsal fin short, witji no smooth spines, inserted 

 behind the origin of ventral; pectoral moderate, not reaching the 

 ventral; anal fin rather short, with fifteen to seventeen rays. Gill- 

 rakers slender and long. Pharyngeal teeth 5, 4, 2 — 2, 4, 5. 



Distribiilio)i: Formosa; China; Indo-China. 



Remarks: Bleeker's IlemicuUer is the genus most closely related 

 to Cidtricidus. It differs from the present genus in having the 

 abdomen non-carinate or only partially carinate (postventral part 

 only). 



^ Leuciscus rcciirviceps Richardson, Ichthyol. China, 1845, p. 259; Canton, China. 

 Culliir recurviceps Giinthcr. Cat. Fish., VII, 1868, p. 328, China. 



