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Total length ‘ ‘ : ‘ : . 85 millim 
From snout to cloaca 2 F , . 46 ,, 
Length of head . : : : ee © eae 
Width ofhead . : ‘i 5 = Oe sy 
Fore limb . . Z ‘ F : OMS . os 
Hind limb . * : é 3 ‘ « AB - 4, 
Tail . : i : ‘ F . 389 
Two specimens were collected by Mr. Pratt at Ichang. 
FISHES 
1. Acipenser dabryanus (Dum.). Ichang. 
2. Acipenser, sp. inc., young specimens from Kiu-kiang. 
8. Psephurus gladius (Martens). Kiu-kiang. 
4, Hleotris xanthi, sp.n. D. 6/3. A.1/7. LL. lat. 38. 
Preoperculum without spine. Twelve series of scales between the 
origin of the second dorsal fin and the anal. The scales on the neck, 
cheek, and opercles are small and do not extend on to the interorbital 
space. Scales finely ciliated. The height of the body is one-fourth of 
the total length (without caudal); the length of the head two-sevenths. 
Eye rather small, shorter than the snout, one-fifth of the length of the 
head, and exceeding the width of the interorbital space. Head rather 
compressed and high behind, with broad snout, and the lower jaw promi- 
nent. The maxillary extends to the vertical from the front margin of the 
orbit. Gill-membranes attached to the median line of the isthmus. 
Vertical fins lower than the body; caudal fin rounded, equal in length 
to the pectorals, which are three-fifths of the length of the head. Light- 
coloured, with broad, indistinct, darker cross bands on the sides. Dorsal 
and caudal fins indistinctly spotted with brown; no spot at the base of 
the pectoral fin. 
This species, of which there is only one specimen in the collection, 
24 inches long, is allied to Hleotris potamophila, but readily distinguished 
from it by its narrow, scaleless, interorbital space. I do not know of any 
other species of this genus ascending in fresh water to a similar distance 
from the sea. 
5. Ophiocephalus argus (Cant.). Kiu-kiang. 
6. Polyacanthus opercularis (L.). Kiu-kiang. 
7. Mastacembelus chinensis (Blkr.). Ichang. 
8. Silurus asotus (L.). Kiu-kiang and Kia-tiang-fu, 
