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PR<K'Ef:i)Ty(iS OF THE XATIdXAL MI'SECM. 



Color, in spirits, yellowish white: a narrow but distinct dark line on 

 side from middle of caudal anteriorly to tirst third of body; tins all 

 pale. 



Twelve specimens of this minnow were obtained in a small stream 

 at Aomori, in northern .lapan. Length. l.TU inches. 



Tt/jM.— Cat. No. 53411, U.8.N.M. 



0>fi/y>ts. — No. 9257, Stanford University. 



LEUCISCUS CiERULESCENS Sauvage. 



Of this species, originally described from Lake Biwa. we have two 

 examples from Kawatana, near Nagasaki. These were overlooked in 

 the review of Japanese Cyprinida? by Jordan and Fowler." 



RHODEUS ORYZ^ Jordan and Scale, new species. 



Head. H.T5 in Icjigth (without caudal); depth, 2.5(>; eye. 'J.'i^ in head; 

 D. 1(>; A. 12; pharyngeal teeth, 5, hooked; scales. 11-32; lateral line 

 sloping downward and liackward to above or somewhat behind ven- 

 trals. where it ceases. 



Body deep, compressed; snout short, shorter than eye, which is 

 cijual to intei'orltital width; mouth small, the maxillary not reaching 



Fig. 2. — Rhodei's ory/.k. 



front of eye, its tij) with a distinct barbel; scales tirm; front of dorsal 

 nearer snout than ])ase of caudal; ventrals below tij) of ])ectoriil, which 

 is 1.35 in head; caudal about equal to head. 



Color, in s))irits. yellowish; the margins of the scales above, slightly 

 darker; a dark stripe from nuciial region to front of dorsal; a golden 

 shade on opercle; fins yellowish, unmarked. 



Seven specimens, tlu^ largest an inch long, were taken in a ditch in 

 a rice field at Kawatana. northwest of Nagasaki, in the islaml of Kiu- 

 siu, in Japan. It is foiuul in companj' with the small Cyprinodont, 

 AploeheUas latipes^ which it somewhat resembles. This species is 



"Proc. r. S. Nat. Mus., XXVI, IW:^, i>. 84.5. 



