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46. Cultriculus kneri (Kreyenbcrg). 

 Unahii or Kirara (Formosa). 



1867. Culler leiicisctilus Kner, Novara Fisch., Ill, p. 362; Shanghai. 



1868. Chanodichlhys leucisciiliis Gunther, Cat. Fish., VII, p. 327; Shanghai 

 (after Kner.) 



1873. Hemiculler leucisculus Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Sept., p. 249; 



Shanghai. — Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1888, p. 433; Yang-tzc-kiang. — Berg, 



Ichthyol. Amur., 1909, p. 146. 

 1908. Hemiculler kneri Kreyenberg, Berhn Sitzb. Ges. Natt. Freunde, p. 105 



(nom. nor. for Culler leucisculus Kner). 



Head 4.56 in length; depth 4.56; D. II, 7; A. 2, 11 ; P. 15; V. 9; 

 width of head 2.17 in its length; eye 4 in head; interorbital space 3.5; 

 snout 3.25; pectoral i.ii; ventral 1.5; fifty-two scales in the lateral 

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

 line, 3.5 scales between the latter and the middle of belly, 2 scales 

 between lateral line and the root of the ventral; phar}-ngeal teeth 

 5, 4, 2—2, 4, 5; gill-rakers 4 + 17. 



Body elongate, much compressed; entire abdominal edge carinate; 

 head moderate, narrow; snout pointed anteriorly, its tip slightly 

 swollen; mouth anterior and oblique, its angle scarcely reaching the 

 anterior margin of the nostril below; lower jaw slightly shorter than 

 the upper, with rather sharp edge; eyes moderate, anterior and supe- 

 rior; nostrils close together, in front of eye above. 



Origin of dorsal about midway between tip of snout and base of 

 ■caudal, inserted behind that of the ventral, with two smooth spines, 

 of which the second is stronger, anterior ray the longest; pectoral iin 

 moderate, not reaching the ventral; ventrals slender, inserted in front 

 of the origin of dorsal; anal entirely behind the dorsal, rather short, 

 triangular, anterior ray the longest; caudal fin bifurcate, tip of each 

 lobe sharply pointed; caudal peduncle elongate, its depth 2.66 in 

 length of head. 



Body covered with thin cycloid scales; lateral line continuous, 

 abruptly bending downward above the pectoral; thence passing back- 

 ward, making a weak curve, extending along the middle of the sides 

 of the tail. 



Color in formalin oli\'e-gray above, lower half of the body white; 

 dorsal and caudal fins grayish, other fins white. 



Total length 182 mm. 



Described from a specimen from Jitsugetsutan, collected by 

 T. Aoki in August, 1916. 



