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snout and one at end of each maxillary i no mandibular barbels present. 

 Gill openings wholly lateral; joined to isthmus just below lower pec- 

 toral ray. 



Scales small and cycloid, running in more or less definite oblique 

 series, but the series are irregular and crowded, many of them extend- 

 ing only a short distance. Head entirely naked. 



Front of dorsal midway l)etween tip of snout and tip of caudal. 

 Yentrals a very slight distance anterior to dorsal. Front of anal mid- 

 way between insertion of venti'als and ])ase of middle caudal ra3\s. 

 Caudal with many small axillary rays, which form a long keel on caudal 

 peduncle above and below. 



Color brown speckled, and spotted with darker brown. A dark 

 blended lateral band extending at ])ase of caudal in a conspicuous black 

 spot, which runs out on caudal I'ays. A narrow dark streak through 

 eye to tij) of snout. Dorsal slightl}- spotted with brown. Wavy dark 

 streaks across caudal rays; other fins light. Belly and under parts of 

 head white. Other specimens are scarcely mottled, and have a dark. 



Fig. 7. — Elixis coreants. 



clear-cut. broad, brown, lateral band in sharp contrast with the other 

 body color. 



This sp'ecies may be known at once from E. nikhonls hj the much 

 smaller, more crowded scales. It is the best represented species in 

 this collection, there being a couple of hundred specimens from Gen- 

 san and a few from Fusan. 



The type is from Gensan, Korea, and is (io mm. in length. It is 

 numbered ■i52'13, U. S. National Museum. Cot^-pes are numbered 

 8061 Ichthyological Collections. Stanford University. 



Family POECILIID.E. 



22. APLOCHEILICHTHYS LATIPES ( Schlegel). 



Many specimens were collected at Fusan. They have ])een compared 

 with specimens from Wakanoura, Japan, and are apparently identical. 

 The ventrals are not nearer to the operculum than to the vent, as 

 described by Giinther, nor midway between those points, as described 

 bv Schlegel, but nearer to the vent than to the operculum, as shown 

 in Schlee'ePs fio-ure. 



