‘ON THE ICHTHYOLOGY OF THE SEAS OF CHINA AND JAPAN. 287 
199. Chinese name, Yen ting (Birch) ; Gan ting, “ Cottage nail” (Reeves) ; 
Om ting (Bridgem. Chrest. 197). Icon. piscium 24 a pict. Sin. &c. 
Hab, Seas of Japan and China, Macao. Philippines. Amboyna. Celebes,. Western 
Australia. Friendly Isles, Indian Ocean, Mauritius. Seychelles and Red sea, Chinese 
specimens exist in the museum of the Cambridge Philosophical Institution, the British 
Museum, the Chinese collection at Hyde Park, Haslar Museum, and very commonly in the 
Chinese insect-boxes. 
CLARIAS PULICARIS, Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of Sulph. p. 135. pl. 62. f. 5. 
6. Icon. Reeves, 3-16; Hardw. Malac. 198. Chinese name, Z’th sa, 
“Pond louse” Seah Tang sih, “ Bird-flea” (Reeves); Zong sat 
(Bridgem. Chrest. 198). 
Hab. Canton. Spec. Br. Mus. (Reeves). 
The Macropterote brun of Lacép. v. pl. 2. f. 2. is probably the above species, and not the 
Clarias fuscus of Sumatra (C. et V. xv. p. 383). 
CLaRIAS HExACIcINNUS, Lacé€p. (Macropteronotus), v. pp. 84, 88. pl. 2. f. 3. 
Established on a Chinese painting. 
Hab. China. 
CLARIAS ABBREVIATUS, C. et V. xv. p. 386. 
This species resembles Lacépéde’s C. hewacicinnus in the shortness of its body. 
Hab. Canton. 
The Cossyphus ater of M‘Clelland, Calcutta Journ. (iv. p. 405. pl. 24. f. 3), is apparently 
an injured example of a fish of this genus. The specimen came from China. 
Tribus ? 
Fam. CypRINID&. 
As we know the bulk of the Chinese species of this difficult family chiefly 
from Mr, Reeves’s drawings, the Cuvierian generic groups seem to be better 
adapted for their description than the minuter subdivisions of more recent 
ichthyologists, depending as many of them do on anatomical characters. I 
have compared these drawings carefully with General Hardwicke’s numerous 
figures of Indian Cyprinide*, and also with the plates of M‘Clelland’s paper 
in the 19th volume of the Asiatic Researches for 1839, and am satisfied 
that the Chinese species are almost wholly different from those of the pe- 
ninsula of India. Mrs. Bowdich (now Lee) copied for Baron Cuvier many 
drawings of Chinese fish, some of which are referred to by M. Valenciennes 
in the sixteenth and seventeenth volumes of the ‘ Histoire des Poissons’ which 
treat of the Cyprinide. Mr, Brown kindly pointed out to me the drawings 
she traced from in the Banksian Library. They are kept loose in a port- 
folio, and are entitled in the Catalogue ‘Icones piscium 24 a pictore Sinensi 
Cantoni eleganter pictz, fol.’ Aided by the dimensions of the tracings noted 
by M. Valenciennes, and his descriptions of the colours, I have been able to 
identify most of these drawings with the species named by him; but as he 
quotes more of Mrs. Bowdich’s tracings of Cyprinide than there are origi- 
nals in this small collection, it is evident that she made copies also of the 
figures in some other Chinese book or collection of drawings; and M. Va- 
lenciennes also mentions several figures of Cyprinide which he saw in the 
Banksian Library, but which I have not been able to find. 
(Cyprini veri vel cirrhati.) 
CypPRINUS ATRO-VIRENS, Richardson. Jcon. Reeves, 116; Hardw. Malac. 7. 
Chinese name, Hih le, “ Black carp” (Reeves, Birch); Hak li (Bridgem. 
Chrest. 15), Length of drawing 114 inches. 
The height of the body isa little more than a third of the length, and the back is elevated in 
* There are in all 128 drawings of Cyprinide in the Hardwickian volumes, of which 65 
appear from the references on many of them, and the sameness of the style of others, to haye 
_been executed by the artists that were employed by Buchanan Hamilton. 
