300 REPORT—1845. OTFTOTHTHM HT UO 
Leuctscus curreus, C. et V. xvii. p. 361. 
Hab. China. 
Leruciscus Homospitotus, Richardson. Jcon. Reeves, a. 20; Hardw. Ma- 
lac. 27. Chinese name, Hung yen seun, “ Red-eyed sprout” (Birch) ; 
Hung lang seun, “ Red-eyed? seun” (Reeves); Hung ngen sun (Bridgem. 
Chrest. 236). Length of figure 10 inches. Height of body 2-2 inches. 
Length of head 1-9 inch. Genus Aspius?, Agassiz. Alburnus?, Heckel. 
This fish has an elegant, symmetrical fusiform shape, the back rather less arched than the 
belly, the face nearly straight, and a very slight gibbosity at thenape. The head is slenderly 
conical with an obtuse snout, projecting a little beyond the lower jaw. The eye is nearly in the 
centre, between the tip of the snout and the gill-opening, and the nostrils are considerably 
before it. Dorsal rounded, commencing opposite the front of the ventrals. Anal short, mo- 
derately high. Caudal forked. Lateral line equally decurved to near the caudal, descending 
a little below the middle opposite to the ventrals, and traced on about thirty-five scales. There 
are nine rows in the height. D.9; A. 9 or 10, &c. 
Colour of the back pure wood-brown, with four or five streaks of the same through the rows 
of scales. The scales are shaded with pearl or ash-gray below the lateral line. Caudal leek- 
green. Dorsal, anal and ventrals mountain-green, with crimson tints on the rays. Pectorals 
crimson and asparagus-green. Upper quarter of the itis orpiment-orange, the rest silvery. 
There are a few black specks on the commencement of the lateral line, and three short rows 
of similar ones above it; the middle row being under the dorsal and the two others on the 
shoulder. 
Hab. Canton. 
Leuciscus £NEUS, C. et V. xvii. p. 361. 
Hab. China. 
Leuciscus TEMMINCKII, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. (unpubl.) Rad. D.9; 
A. 13; C.19%; P.13; V.9. (Spec. Brit. Mus. 2:4 inches long.) 
Lateral line decurved, principally in the pectoral region, to the lower quarter of the height. 
Forty-two scales ina row. A dark longitudinal stripe on the middle of the side. Lateral 
line lower than that of Z. homospilotus, which this fish resembles in profile. 
Hab. Japan. 
Leuciscus pLaAtypus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. (unpubl.) Rad. D. 9; 
A.12; C. 192; P.17; V.9. (Spec. Brit. Mus. 5 inches long.) 
Lateral line decurved to lower third of height. Forty-three scales ina row. Rays of the 
anal curiously compressed. 
Hab. Japan. 
Lruciscus Minor, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. (unpubl.) Rad. D. 9; 
A.11; C.198; P.15; V.9. (Spec. Brit. Mus. 32 inches long.) 
Lateral line decurved to the lower quarter of the height. ‘Thirty-nine scales in a row. 
Hab. Japan. 
CoBITIS ANGUILLICAUDATUS, Cantor, Ann. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 30. An. 1842; 
Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of the Sulph. p. 143. pl. 55. f.9, 10. C. pee- 
toralis, M‘Clelland, Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. p. 400. pl. 23. f. 3. An. 1844. 
C. erythropterus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. Icon. Reeves, 278 ; Hardw. 
Malac. 118 et 1]9. dupl. 
The British Museum and the India House are in possession of several of Dr, Cantor’s spe- 
cimens, and of a Japanese one named by the authors of the ‘ Fauna Japonica; five or six were 
presented by Sir Everard Home, Bart. to the College of Surgeons. 
_ Hab. Canton, Chusan. Yang tze kiang kew. 
CosiTis PSAMMISMUS, Richardson. Jcon. Reeves, 145; Hardw. Malac. 120. 
Chinese name, Sha chuy, “Sand club” (Birch); Sha Chiuy, “Sand- 
needle” (Reeves) ; Sha chui (Bridgem. Chrest. 104). Length of drawing. 
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