120 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 



SATJROGOBIO DUMERILII Bleeker. 



D. 9, A. 9, V. 8, P. 16; LI. 59|. 



A prominence below the symphysis of the lower jaws. Barbel reaching 

 below the middle of the eye. Pharyngeal teeth 5 5; two of these teeth, in 

 each series, are molar-like, resembling those of Myloleuciscus atripinnis but 

 not so much differentiated. Dorsal origin at one third of the distance from the 

 end of the snout to the base of the caudal, and anal origin in the hindmost fourth 

 of this length. End of dorsal and ends of ventrals opposed. Pectorals reaching 

 a vertical from the origin of the dorsal. Scales of the lateral line and below 

 plain golden; three of the vertebral rows with brown hind margins, three other 

 rows at each side of the dorsal three with a brown spot on the middle of the 

 hinder edge of each scale, forming longitudinal vittae. Bases of fins yellow, 

 distal portions darker. Total length 10? inches. 



Ichang, Shasi. 



CORIPAREIUS, gen. nov. 



Body compressed, deep in the caudal pedicel, dorsal and ventrals in the 

 forward half; head tapering, entirely covered by thick skin; snout produced, 

 blunt. Mouth narrow, inferior, lips thick. Maxillary barbels present. Phar- 

 yngeal teeth 5 | 5 or 4, compressed with large crown. Scales moderate, lateral 

 line straight, in the middle of the tail. Dorsal small, without osseous ray, above 

 the ventrals. Anal short. 



Type. C. cetopsis (Kner). 



CORIPAREIUS CETOPSIS Kner. 



fGobio heterodon BLEEKER, 1864, Ned. tijd., 2, p. 26. 



Labeo cetopsis KNER, 1867, Novara fische, p. 351, pi. 15, f . 2. 



Barbus cetopsis GtiNTHER, 1868, Cat., 7, p. 135. 



Saurogobio cetopsis BLEEKER, 1871, Nat. verb. k. akad., 12, p. 8. 



D. 9, A. 9, V. 8, P. 19; LI. 54?. 



The body is rather narrow, depth, or length of head, about one fifth of the 

 total. Head posteriorly as wide as deep, tapering forward, prominent and 

 bluntly rounded at the end of the narrow snout. Nostrils large, close together, 

 near the eye. Eye small, one eighth or less of the head, with a comparatively 

 wide adipose ring. Mouth as wide as long, cleft broadly rounded in front or 

 subtruncate. Lips thick. Barbels two, reaching the hind edge of the pre- 

 opercle. Entire head, including the opercles covered with loose thick skin. 



