286 report— 1845. 



none on the lower fins. The purplish-brown tints are confined to the shoulder, the general 

 colour posteriorly being shining yellowish-brown, with oil-green transverse bars. 

 Hab. Canton. 



Pimelodus cantonensis, C. et V. xv. p. 142 (8 barbels). 



Hab. Fresh waters at Canton. 



Pimelodus asper, M'Clelland, Calc. Journ. iv. p. 404*. pi. 24. f. 2. 

 Hab. Chusan. 



Pimelodus tachisurus, Lacepede {Tachisurus chinensis), v. p. 151. pi. 5. 

 fig. 2; C. et V. xv. p. 163, 



Lacepede describes this fish from a Chinese drawing. His figure is not without consider- 

 able resemblance in general form to the drawing which we have named Galeichthys stanneus, 

 but Mr. Reeves's figure is entirely without blotches such as are represented by Lacepede. 



Hab. China. 



Pimelodus mong, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, j3. 20 ; Hardw. Malac. 173. 

 Chinese name, Mang tze, " Grain or barley-awn fish" (Reeves, Birch); 

 Mong tsai (Bridgem. Chrest. 195). 



In outline and the relative size and shape of the fins, this drawing has some resemblance 

 to the Arius pumilus of Jacquemont (Voy. dans l'lnde, pi. 18. f. 1), but it wants the casque and 

 the crutch-like interspinous process of that fish, there being merely a few black dots on the 

 nape, probably intended to represent some roughness of that part. There are no nasal barbels. 

 The maxillary ones reach beyond the head, and the submandibular ones are shorter. The 

 upper half of the dorsal spine is serrated in front and behind ; and the pectoral one only 

 behind. The anal is small and rectangular. The adipose fin also rectangular, and of medium 

 size. The caudal acutely forked. The fish is drawn curved, and the lateral line, which is 

 marked by a silvery stripe, has a corresponding curvature, but is evidently quite straight when 

 the fish is in a true position. The back of the fish is bluish or greenish-gray, the other parts 

 being more or less brightly silvery. The fins have a similar tint to the back, and there is a 

 small black mark on the edge of the adipose fin. Length of the drawing 5^ inches. 



Hab. Canton. 



Pimelodus? fulvi-draco, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, 155; Hardw. 

 Malac. 174 (et 175 dupl.). Chinese name, Hwang lung, "Yellow-dragon" 

 (Birch, Reeves); Wong lung (Bridgem. Chrest. 199). Length of the 

 figure 5\ inches. 



The profile of this fish, the form of the head and operculum, and the unusual distribution of 

 the dark patches of colour, remind one of the Pimelodus bagarius of Buchanan Hamilton, but 

 it wants the prolongations of the dorsal, pectorals and caudal, which characterise that species, 

 and also the enlargement of the maxillary barbels. It has likewise much resemblance to the 

 P. viridescens of the same author, of which fig. 157, Hardw. Malac. is a coloured representa- 

 tion. In pi. 11. f. 56 (Fishes of the Ganges), the engraving has been less accurately executed 

 than in the rest of Buchanan Hamilton's plates, and the three green bars which cross the back 

 are not distinctly shown. In fulvi-draco the maxillary barbels are a little longer than the 

 head, while the nasal one is only half that length, being about equal to the four submandi- 

 bular ones. The dorsal and pectoral spines are both stout, the latter being serrated on both 

 sides, the former only behind. The caudal is forked with thickish lobes. There are two 

 colours in the body, viz. olive-green and sienna-yellow, each forming three vertical bands 

 with a connecting longitudinal stripe low on the sides. Of these the olive-green occupies the 

 greatest space. A dark dingy green stripe runs through each caudal lobe, the rest of the fin 

 being yellowish-brown. The dorsal is also yellowish-brown and the anal a rather lighter 

 yellow, but with a broad green bar in its middle, descending from the horizontal ventral stripe 

 of that colour. The pectorals and ventrals are dark with pale rays. The prevailing tints on 

 the head are yellowish-brown and sienna-yellow, passing into a darker brown above. 



Hab. Canton. 



Plotosus lineatus, C. et V. xv. p. 412. Plotose Anguille, Lacepede, v. 

 p. 129, 130. pi. 3. f. 2. Ingelee, Russell, 166. Plotose ikapor, Lesson, Voy. 

 <1< s Duperrey, pi. 31. f. 3 ; Krusenstern, pi. 60. f, 12 et 13. Plotosus an- 

 guillarisy Rupp. Neue Wirlb. p. 76. Icon. Reeves, /3. 1 1 ; Hardw. Malac. 



