114 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 



D. 3 + 7, A. 3 + 32, V. 9, P. 17; LI. 53^; Phar. teeth 5.4.2 2.4.4. 



These specimens are not as dark on the body or fins as that figured by 

 Basilewsky, but the scales have the light centres surrounded by puncticulations 

 of brown. Distally each of the fins is darker. The general effect of the color 

 is silver rather than brown. Body keeled from the pectorals backward to the 

 end of the anal base. Dorsal origin midway from end of snout to base of caudal. 

 Kner's figure does not represent the species very well, as it is too slender; the 

 description is good. Basilewsky described the species from affluents of Chihli; 

 Mr. Zappey secured it at Ichang. 



OPSARIICHTHYS ACUTIPINNIS (Bleeker) Giinther. 



Barilius (Barilius) acutipinnis BLEEKER, 1871, Nat. verb. k. akad., 12, p. 81, pi. 13, f. 1. 

 Opsariichthys aculipinnis and 0. bidens GiiNT., 1873, Ann. mag. nat. hist., ser. 4, 12, p. 249. 



The figure of 0. acutipinnis was made from a half grown specimen. The 

 description of 0. bidens also was drawn from a specimen not fully developed. 

 The specimens at hand make it evident that 0. bidens is a synonym. The 

 notches of the jaws are very evident on some and hardly noticeable on others. 

 There is much variation in individuals aside from the peculiar sexual changes 

 in the fins and the tubercles of the cheeks. The pharyngeal teeth vary from 

 4.2 to 4.3 and to 4.3.1. The difference in numbers of rays or of scales is not 

 great. In the adult the markings on the fins and flanks are like those of 0. 

 platypus, but the interradial spots are more distinct, and on some the lower half 

 of the face is blackish. 



Kiating, Min River. 



GARRA (AGENEIOGARRA) IMBERBA, subgen. nov. sp. nov. 



D. 13 (4 + 9), A. 8, V. 10, p. 17; LI. 50|, head to D. 17; Phar. teeth 5.4.2 | 

 2.4.5, slender, pointed. 



Body elongate, greatest depth about equal to length of head or one seventh 

 of the total length, compressed posteriorly, depressed and broadened in front. 

 Head wider than deep, flattened below, slightly convex, both longitudinally 

 and transversely, on the top. Snout very wide, short, broadly rounded across 

 the end. Eye moderate, less than one fourth as long as the head and behind 

 its mid length, in width of orbit less than half the interocular space. Nostrils 

 close together, nearer to the eye than to the end of the snout. Snout without 

 a lobe above, as in G. lamta, but with a group of pits at each side of the middle 



