Fishes from N^ewcJiwang, North China. 259 



belonging to our fish is transposed to the species of " Fagrus " 

 on tab. i. fig. 3. 



This species of Scicena is allied to Soimna coitor, to which 

 I referred some young and badly preserved specimens from 

 Reeves's collection in 1860 (Cat. Fish. ii. p. 301) ; but, for 

 the present at least, both forms had better be kept distinct. 

 Materials such as were at that time at my disposal, and, I 

 believe, at that of my predecessors, are quite insufficient for 

 a critical delimitation of the species in a family in which the 

 species are so closely allied and so indistinctly described as 

 in the Scijenida^. 



Also a very young specimen in a bad state of preservation, 

 sent by Swinhoe from Chefoo, which I thought might be 

 referred to Scicena Dussumieri (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 Feb. 1<S74, p. 155), seems to belong rather to Scicena tenlo. 



Scicp.na crocea. 



Scicena crocea, Richardson, Iclithyol. China and Japan, p. 224 (1846) ; 



Giiuth. Cat. Fish, ii. p. 284. 

 Scicena clmun-chua, Basilewsky, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. x. 



1855, p. 221. 



D. 10 I ^,. A. 2/7. L. lat. 63. L. trans v. 5/U. 



The height of the body is nearly the length of the head, 

 which is two sevenths of the total length (without caudal). 

 The diameter of the eye is two elevenths of the length of the 

 head, less than that of the snout, and much less than the 

 width of the interorbital space. Snout scarcely swollen, with 

 the lower jaw a little projecting, approaching in form that of 

 Otolithus. The teeth in the upper jaw are short, forming a 

 single series, no one being ditlerentiated by size, but they 

 are larger than those of the lower jaw. Lower jaw without 

 pits. The maxillary does not extend to below the hind 

 margin of the orbit. Prseopercular margin membranaceous, 

 with indistinct crenulations. Dorsal spines feeble; anal 

 spine short, but pungent. Caudal fin slightly produced in 

 the middle. Pectoral fins longer than ventral and as long as 

 head without snout. Coloration uniform silvery. 



The specimens from which this description is taken are 

 12 inches long. Dr. Morrison enumerates them under the 

 names of Huang hua yu and Huang liu yu, of which, although 

 somewhat diflFerently spelled, the former agrees with the 

 vernacular names given by Reeves and Basilewsky. 



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