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A. 11, &c. The front of the ventrals is rather before the dorsal: the anal is small, the caudal 
deeply forked with thickish lobes. The lateral line is a little decurved over the pectoral, and 
then takes a straight course below the middle of the height to the caudal. It is traced on 
about forty-eight scales, which are consequently rather small, fourteen or fifteen rows are re- 
presented in the height. 
The colour of the back is pure oil-green, the silvery borders of the scales increasing in 
breadth on the flanks, the green is confined to a slight tinge on the base of each, and on the 
belly it is replaced by pearl-gray. Caudal saffron-yellow with a bluish-gray border. The 
top of the head is coloured like the back, the snout and under jaw are crimson, the temples 
mountain-green, and the operculum purple, The dorsal is pale buff with the third ray crimson, 
and there are crimson tints on the bases of the inferior fins; the front of the anal being yel- 
lowish-green, All the inferior fins appear to be transparent. 
Hab. Canton. 
Levciscus samsusA, Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of Sulphur, p. 141. pl. 63. 
f.2. Icon. Reeves, 286 ; Hardw. Malac. 32. Chinese name, Chih nuy 
yu, “Bamboo spoilt fish” (Birch). (An Chela, Ham. Buch.? Pelecus, 
Agassiz ?) 
A specimen was presented to the British Museum by John Reeves, Esq. which measures 
seventeen inches in length. Not having seen Mr. Reeves’s drawing of this species until after 
the publication of the ‘ Ichthyology of the Voyage of the Sulphur,’ the colours of the recent fish 
were not therein described. They are pale chestnut-brown on the back with silvery discs to 
the scales, and a gradual passage into greenish-gray on the belly. The jaws, pectorals, lower 
fins, and under lobe of the caudal are ochre-yellow; the upper lobe of the caudal the same, 
with a greenish tinge, and the dorsal greenish-blue. There are also some blushes of carmine 
at the bases of the ventrals and caudal. This Zeuciscus is remarkable for the size and soli- 
dity of the intermaxillaries, and for the conical process which rises from the symphysis of the 
lower jaw, as well as for its slender form. 
Hab. Canton. 
LeEuciscus curRIcULUS, Richardson. Jcon. Reeves, 141; Hardw. Malac. 28. 
Chinese name, H7h shih wan, “ Stone-black barrow (Birch) ; “ Black-stone 
carriage” (Reeves); Hak shik wan (Bridgem. Chrest. 236). Rad. omnes 
articulati; D.8; A. 9; C.193; P.19; V.9. (Spec. Br. Mus. J. R. 
Reeves, Esq.) Length 83 inches. Height of body 1 inch. Thickness 
0°95. Length of head 1:48 inch. 
Shape fusiform, with a conical head and narrow snout slightly longer than the lower jaw. 
The lateral line runs in the middle of the height, and has a gentle decurvature from end to 
end. It is traced on forty scales, and there are ten or eleven rows in the height. The height 
slightly surpasses the length of the head, and is contained five times and a half in the total 
length of the fish. The dorsal, narrow and less in height than the body, commences oppo- 
site to the front of the ventrals, which are in the middle of the length, caudal excluded. 
The pectorals are obtuse and do not reach the ventrals. The anal is short and similar to the 
dorsal. Caudal forked. Operculum striated. 
Colour of the back liver-brown, with greenish glosses and longitudinal streaks of darker 
brown. Beneath the lateral line the scales have much nacry lustre and a very pale roseate 
tint. There are some grass-green tints round the eye and on the operculum. The fins are 
dark olive or blackish-green, with crimson tints on the bases of all except the dorsal. 
| Hab, Canton. 
Leuciscus vANDELLA, C. et V. xvii. p.363. Icones Piscium 24 a pictore 
Sinensi, &c. (two figures on separate sheets). 
Judging from the drawings, this approaches closely to curriculus, but its caudal is more 
forked and the lateral line more bent down and in a different curve. 
Hab. Canton. 
Leuciscus PLENvS, Broussonnet MSS. in Descript. of Anim. p. 204. fig. 197 
(Cyprinus). 
‘This sketch most resembles L. curriculus (141 Reeves), but does not quite agree with it. 
“The head is oblong, somewhat depressed. Body oblong and roundish. Dorsal nearly in 
the middle. Tail bifid. Ventrals opposite to the posterior ray of the dorsal. Pectorals 
pointed. Lateral line convex downwards.” “D.8; A.11; C. 20; P.14; V.10.” A, 
foot long. 
| Hab. “ Canton river.” 
