122 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 



line descending little on the flank, ending on the middle of the tail. Form 

 more slender than that of P. rivularis, as figured by Steindachner; back less 

 high, dorsal lower; pectorals and ventrals much more produced; colors some- 

 what similar, but having a lateral band of silver with faint darker cloudings. 



Lustrous silvery below the lateral lines; above the lines darker, blotched, 

 and clouded faintly with brown. Fins, dorsal and caudal, with several oblique 

 rows of small spots of darker brown parallel with the hind borders of the fins 

 and not as in P. sinensis Kner. 



Types: No. 29833, 29834 M. C. Z. Hupeh: Changyanghsien, Yangtze 

 Kiang River. W. R. Zappey. 



BOTIA VARIEGATA Gunther. 



D. 12, A. 8, V. 10, P. 15; LI. 21518; total length 15 inches. 



Body compressed, depth nearly one seventh of the total length. Head 

 compressed, little less than one fourth of the total, greatest width about two 

 fifths of the length. Snout narrower than deep, high and broadly rounded at 

 the end. Eye small, hardly one twelfth of the length of the head. Suborbital 

 spine strong, rather slender pointed, not bifid. Barbels six; the maxillary 

 applied to the side of the head reach the end of the snout. Mouth moderate, 

 as wide as long; cleft sub truncate in front; upper jaws with a prominence on 

 the symphysis. Cheek with small scales in front of the operculum backward 

 from the mouth. Pectorals and ventrals with a membranous fold in the axils. 

 Dorsal origin equidistant from eye and base of caudal. Ventral origins below 

 the third ray of the dorsal. Anal origin halfway from the origins of the ventrals 

 to the base of the caudal. Dorsal, pectorals, and anal slightly concave on the 

 hind margin; ventrals little convex. Caudal deeply notched. Outer angles 

 of all fins acute. Depth of caudal pedicel two fifths of its length. 



Brownish; head with narrow vermiculations and spots of bluish; each 

 fin with about four oblique irregular and broken bands of brown; body with 

 about six broad transverse bands of dark brown; the first and narrowest behind 

 the gill opening, the second between pectorals and dorsal, the third on the 

 origins of the ventrals, the fourth at the end of the dorsal base, the fifth above 

 the anal, and the sixth, as long as deep, on the base of the caudal. 



The specimen described shows some variations from the type, though 

 both were from the same locality. 



Ichang. 



