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Habitat: Jitsugetsutan (Lake Candidius) ; Shimotamusui River. 

 Remarks: According to the description by Kner the type of the 

 present species has 4, 3, 2 — 2, 3, 4 pharyngeal teeth instead of 5, 4, 2 — 



2, 4> 5- 



The Chinese people who live near Lake Candidius use two ver- 

 nacular names for the present species, namely, " Unahii" and " Kirara." 

 They treat these two as different fishes. But there is no doubt that 

 "Kirara" is the young form of "Unahii," for no morphological dif- 

 ferences exist between them. 



Description of "Kirara." 



Head 4.5 in length; depth 5; D. H, 7; A. 2, II ; P. 15; V. 9; width- of 

 head 2.33 in its length; eye 3 in head; interorbital space 3.5; snout 3.5; 

 ventral 1.5; pectoral as long as the head; fifty-two scales in the lateral 

 line, eight scales between origin of dorsal and lateral line, four scales 

 between the latter and the middle of belly, two and one-half scales 

 between lateral line and the root of the ventral; pharyngeal teeth 

 5, 4, 2—2, 4, 5; gill-rakers 5 + 16. 



Body slender, elongate, compressed, entire abdominal edge carinate; 

 head moderate, narrow, its top very slightly convex; snout pointed 

 anteriorly, upper surface flat, tip swollen; mouth anterior and oblique, 

 its angle scarcely reaching a vertical through anterior margin of 

 nostril; lower jaw slightly shorter than the upper, with rather sharp 

 anterior edge; eyes large, anterior; nostrils close together, supralateral, 

 the anterior nostril in a short tube. 



Origin of the dorsal midway between tip of snout and base of caudal, 

 inserted behind the origin of the ventral, with two smooth spines; 

 height of the fin ecjual to the length of head; pectoral elongate, scarcely 

 reaching the root of ventral; ventral fin small, inserted in advance of 

 the dorsal; anal fin entirely behind dorsal, triangular, anterior ray 

 the longest; caudal fin slender, elongate, deeply emarginate, tip of 

 each lobe sharply pointed; caudal peduncle elongate, strongly com- 

 pressed laterally, its depth 2.75 in the length of head. 



Body covered with thin cycloid scales; lateral line continuous, 

 abruptly bending downward from the nape to the tip of the pectoral, 

 thence passing backward and ascending gradualh', running along the 

 middle of the sides of tail. 



Color in formalin pale olive-gray, lower j^arts whitish; top of head 

 brown; a dark brown longitudinal band runs from nape to tiie base 



