GARMAN: PISCES. 123 
SILURIDAE. 
SiLurRus asotus Linné. 
Ichang. 
PSEUDOBAGRUS VACHELLIT Richardson. 
Luchow, Ichang. 
LIOCASSIS NASO, sp. Noy. 
D. 2 + 7, A. 16, V. 6, P.1 + 11. 
Depth of body one sixth, and length of head one fifth of the total length. 
Head about as broad as high at the occiput, narrowing forward, and from below 
to the crown. Crown straight from the nape to end of snout. Snout produced, 
subtruncate, and curving upward and forward from the mouth; not depressed 
and thin asin species of Macrones, little wider than deep at the end. No labial 
teeth; palatal teeth in a transverse band narrowly divided in the middle. Eyes 
lateral covered by skin, folds rudimentary, above and below. Barbels eight; 
maxillary slender, not reaching the gill opening, narial reaching the middle of 
the eye. Nostrils separated; anterior in front of the snout; posterior near 
the eyes, with a slender barbel in front. Skull covered by thin skin, with a 
minute spine on each of the ridges above the snout. Denticles of the dorsal 
spine weaker than those of the inner side of the pectoral spines. Caudal deeply 
notched. Adipose fin shorter than the head. 
Brownish, with clouded areas at the top of the head, at the sides of the dorsal 
and behind it. 
Type:— No. 29847 M. C. Z. Hupeh: Ichang. W. R. Zappey. 
SYMBRANCHIDAE. 
MOoNopTERUS JAVANENSIS Lacépéde. 
Muraena alba Zurew, 1793. 
Monopterus javanensis LachrrpE, 1800. 
The arrangement of the colors on this eel is suggestive that the back and 
upper surfaces are exposed to the more direct rays of light; these portions of 
the body are dark while the lower half is much lighter and even white. Further, 
the chin and throat are much darker than the balance of the lower surfaces, 
which is probably due to the habitual carriage of head and neck raised above 
the horizontal. 
Washan; from a marsh near the Tung River, at an altitude of 6,000 feet 
or more. 
