118 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 



elongate. Snout produced. Mouth inferior, transverse, bent backward at 

 the preorbital bone. Pharyngeal teeth 6.4.2 2.4.6, larger compressed pointed 

 and rigid, smaller slender and movable in the inner rows. Pectorals small, 

 not reaching the ventrals. Ventral origins below the middle of the dorsal base. 

 Third ray of the dorsal strong, as long as the head. Anal small, base twice 

 as far from the bases of the ventrals as from the base of caudal. Dorsal origin 

 a little forward of midway from end of snout to base of caudal, fourth ray in 

 the mid length, spine as long as the head. Caudal deeply notched. Scales 

 moderate. 



Cheeks and scales silvery; upper half of body, and top of head brownish. 



Intermediate between X. tapeinosoma Bleeker and X . argentea Giinther. 

 Xenocypris nitidus is more elongate and less oval than X. lampertii Popta; 

 the eye is larger and about half its length is in the hinder half of the head, it 

 is also about twice as far from the upper outline of the head as from the lower; 

 there is no keel in front of the vent; there are more scales in the lateral line 

 and fewer in the transverse; and the origin of the dorsal is farther forward. 



Types: No. 29822, 29823 M. C. Z. Hupeh: Shasi. W. R. Zappey. 



HEMICTJLTER LEUCISCULTJS (Basilewsky) Bleeker. 



D. 9, A. 16, V. 6, P. 15; LI. 45f, head to dorsal 19 scales. 



Dorsal origin in the middle of the length from the end of the snout to the 

 base of the caudal, at a vertical from the hind ends of the bases of the ventrals. 

 Pectorals acuminate, ending in front of the origins of the ventrals at a distance 

 greater than the length of the orbit. 



The type of this species was taken in streams flowing into the Gulf of 

 Chihli. The' specimens in this collection were taken at Shasi on the Yangtze 

 Kiang. 



Among individual variations it is to be noticed that on some specimens the 

 lateral line rises abruptly above the base of the anal, on four scales, then con- 

 tinues for eight scales in the middle of the caudal pedicel in a direct line; on 

 others the rise is as gradual as that figured by Bleeker. 



CULTER DABRYI Bleeker. 



D. 3 + 7, A. 3 + 26, V. 9, P. 15; LI. 64^ 2 . 



Depth equal four seventeenths of the length to the base of the caudal; 

 head equal two ninths of the same length. Nape slightly convex. Abdominal 



