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posterior margin of orbit; lower jaw slightly longer than upper; teeth 

 in both jaws and on vomer, cardiform; eyes moderate, superior, and 

 much anterior; nostrils widely separated, the anterior in a long tube, 

 just behind the upper lip, the posterior in front of eye. 



Dorsal fin elongate, beginning over the base of pectoral, the rays 

 quite uniform in length, when depressed reaching beyond the root of 

 caudal; anal fin similar to dorsal but shorter, beginning beneath the 

 fifteenth dorsal ray and ending under the forty-second; rays of the 

 dorsal and anal all unbranched; pectoral fin broad, not reaching the 

 vent; no ventral fins; caudal fin broad and rounded; caudal peduncle 

 short and deep, greatly compressed. 



Lateral line broken anteriorly, running along the middle of the 

 sides from the base of caudal to just above second anal ray, thence 

 upward one row for one scale, again upward for one row, extending 

 forward on seven scales, thence dropping one row, reaching to the 

 upper extremity of gill-opening; body covered with large cycloid scales 

 with irregular concentric lines and radiating striae; head and cheeks 

 covered with plate-like scales. 



Color in formalin yellowish brown above, paler below; the sides 

 with about nine V-shaped dark cross-bars, the apex pointing forward, 

 these markings clearer posteriorly and more or less broken and irregu- 

 lar in front; a large round black spot, bordered by white, on caudal 



Measurements of Channa formosana. 



peduncle near the base of caudal fin; sides of head with two broad, 

 dark streaks from eye to the posterior edge of operculum, more or less 

 undulating; dorsal and anal fins uniformly dusk\' gray, their edge 

 somewhat darker; other fins grayish white. 



Length of body 210 mm. 



The present description is from a specimen from Taihoku, collected 

 by Oshima in September, 1916. 



Habitat: Taihoku; Shori, Toyen; Tamusui Ri\er; Jitsugetsutan 

 (Lake Candidius). One of the commonest fishes in ponds and stag- 

 nant pools. 



