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JAPANESE LOCHE. 



Cobitis Japonica. C. imberbis, capite depresso, man (lib nils denti* 

 culatis. 



Beardless Loche, with depressed head and denticulated man- 

 dibles. 



Cobitis Japonica. C. capite imberli depresso, mandiluUs dcntatis. 

 Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1352. Houttuyn. .Act. Haarl. 20. 

 p. 337. 



LENGTH about five inches : native of Japan : 

 first described by Houttuyn in the 20th vol. of the 

 Haarlem Transactions. In the dorsal fin are 

 twelve rays ; in the pectoral eleven; in the ventral 

 eight ; in the anal nine ; and in the caudal twenty. 



