A PRELIMINARY NOTE ON THE FISHES OF LAKE BIWA. 



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golden yellow scattered all over. The ground colour of the head 

 reddish yellow, the dorsal portion dirty green. The pupil of the eye 



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deep indigo, with crimson and indigo-coloured streaks around it. The 

 dorsal and the caudal fins greenish ochre. The ventral and the anal 

 white with yellow stripes. 



6. Pseudogohio zezera n. sp. (?). (Figs. 4 — 7). 



Jap. name Zezera. Loc. Otsu, Maebara, Matsubara. 

 D. 1/8, A. 1/7, L. latr. 38, L. transv. 4^/3|- 



Fig. 4. n. size. 



Fig. 6. 



Fie. 7 



The height of the body is one-fifth the total length (without caudal), 

 the length of the head a little less than one-fifth. The snout less 

 extended than that of P. variagatus, with the front end more abruptly 

 turned down than the that species, making a rounded angle with the 

 upper side of the snout. The eye much larger, the diameter of which 

 being, contained three and one-half times in the length of the head. 

 Mouth inferior, horse-shoe-shaped, very small ; barbels none ; the lower 

 jaw with pendant lateral lips. Origin of the dorsal fin much nearer to 



