Jrom the Upper Yangtsze-Kiang. 225 
attains a length of about 10 inches and is common at Kiu- 
Kiang. 
Xenocypris argentea, Gthr. 
I am unable to distinguish from it Xenocypris Davids, 
Blkr. 
Myloleucus ethiops, Basil. 
This is a large and common species in the Yangtsze-Kiang 
near Kiu-Kiang. Mr. Styan has sent specimens 40 inches 
long. ‘The pharyngeal teeth are five molars in the specimen 
examined. 
Hypophthalmichthys nobilis, Rich. 
This is also a very large Cyprinoid, exceeding a length of 
4 teet. 
Hypophthalmichthys molitriz, C. V. 
Equals the preceding in size. 
RHAYNCHOCYPRIS, g. n. (Cyprin.). 
Scales small, lateral line present. Dorsal fin short, without 
spine, its origin being immediately behind the root of the 
ventrals. Anal fin short. Mouth lateral, but overlapped by 
the conically protruding snout. Intermaxillaries slightly 
protractile, tree from the upper part of the snout in their entire 
circumference ; the labial fold of the lower jaw is lateral 
only and does not extend across the symphysis; barbel none. 
Gill-rakers very short and few in number; pseudobranchiz 
glandular. Pharyngeal teeth uncinate, in two rows, 5.2. 
Intestine short, with one convolution. Peritoneum black. 
This genus seems to come nearer to some of the small 
North-American members of Cyprinina than to any of the 
Old-W orld forms. 
ERhynchocypris variegata. 
DL Osorn di cA. 9. o1.lat. 100: 
Body rather elongate, its height being two ninths of the 
total length (without caudal), the length of the head two 
sevenths. “Head depressed, broad and flat above, snout 
wedge-shaped and produced. Eye of moderate size, two 
ninths of the length of the head and two thirds of the length 
of the snout or of the width of the interorbital space. Origin 
