﻿238 

 Cirrhina breviceps C.V. 



Cirrhina breviceps Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XVI. 1842, p. 293. 



Valenciennes mentions this species from "la riviere de 

 Bantam." 



Already Bleeker (Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini i860, 

 p. 140 and Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 54) has doubted the cor- 

 rectness of the definition of VALENCIENNES. The description 

 was made after a dried specimen, which VALENCIENNES saw 

 in the Leiden Museum but which does not exist there any 

 more. Probably it was a species of Labeo. 



Opsariichthys temmincki (Schleg.). 



Lcuciscus teinminckii Schlegel, Fauna japonica Poiss. 1847, p. 210. 

 Opsariichthys temniinckii Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 205. 



J. Karoli (Termeszetrajzi Fiizetek V. 1882, p. 43) mentions 

 in his list of collected fishes Opsariichthys tenwiincki (Schleg.). 

 from Borneo, Sarawak. We suppose that this habitat is erro- 

 neous as the quoted species is only known from Japan. 



APPENDIX. 

 Aperioptus pictorius Richardson. 



Aperioptus pictorius Richardson, Voy. Samarang, Fishes 1848, p. 27. 



Richardson says about this species: 



„Radii. — D. 13; A. II; C. 18^; P. II; V. 9. 



„0f this fish I can give no details. There were two speci- 

 „mens which I unfortunately placed in the hands of the artist 



Fig. 98. Aperioptus pictorius Rich. nat. size. (After Richardson). 



„ before I had examined them, except very cursorily. While 

 „he was employed in sketching, he put them into a plateful 

 „of water for the purpose of expanding their fins more per- 



