292 report — 1845. 



Cyprinus (carassius) burgeri, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. Bad. D. 3|15 ; 

 A. 3|5 ; C. 19f ; P. 17; V. 9. (Spec. Br. Mus.) 



The specimen in the British Museum is four inches long, and is named by the authors of 

 the ' Fauna Japonica.' It may possibly be the same with the preceding, which it resembles in 

 outline, but it has fewer dorsal rays. There are thirty-one scales bearing tubes on the lateral 

 line, and twelve rows in the height of the fish. It seems to have been a paler fish than the 

 following species. 



Hab. Japan. 



Cyprinus gibelioides, Cantor, Ann. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 29. Icon. Reeves, 123 ; 

 Hardvv. Malac. 10. Chinese name, Tsih* yu (Birch) ; Tsih u, " Pattern 

 carp " (Reeves). Bad. B. 3 ; D. 4|17 ; A. 3|6 ; C. 18 \ ; P. 18 ; V. 9. 



As M. Valenciennes compares C. langsdorfii to gibelio, it is possible that Dr. Cantor's fish 

 may be the same. Several of Dr. Cantor's specimens have reached the British Museum 

 through the India House, one of them labelled C. nigrescens, which was probably merely a 

 provisional name, and changed when Dr. Cantor drew up his paper. In form the fish is re- 

 gular and rather elegant. Its face is convex, and the shoulder ascends in a gentle arch to the 

 dorsal. The head makes rather less than a fourth part of the length of the whole fish ; the 

 height of the body is contained three times and a quarter in the length, and the thickness rather 

 more than seven times, or twice and one-third in the height. The mouth is small, not being 

 cleft as far as the nostrils. The symphysis of the lower jaw rises in the form of a minute obtuse 

 point. The lateral line is straight or very slightly decurved, and is traced on twenty-seven 

 scales. There are thirteen rows of scales in the height : each scale is marked on the disc by 

 streaks radiating from the centre. The dorsal commences over the ventrals and extends back 

 to the middle of the short anal. It has four spines, of which the two anterior ones are very 

 minute : the fourth one is strongly toothed behind, and its flexible tip is also toothed. The 

 same is the case with the third anal spine f. The posterior pair of soft rays in both fins are 

 approximated at the base. The colour on the back is greenish-gray, deepening at the base of 

 the scales to blackish-gray, becoming lighter inferiorly and changing to an ochraceous tint on 

 the breast. The fins are greenish or blackish-gray, of different degrees of intensity, and their 

 edges when folded are blackish. The pectoral and anal fins are red on their fore-edges. The 

 figure is 7£ inches long ; the smallest specimen only 2§ inches. 



Hab. Canton. Chusan. 



Cyprinus (carassius) cuvieri, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. Bad. D. 3|18 ; 

 A. 3|5 ; C. 19f ; P. 17 ; A. 9. (Jap. Spec. Br. Mus. length 4 inches.) 



This is much like gibelioides, and may prove to be the same, in which case Dr. Cantor's 

 name has the priority. It seems rather more slender, and has a shorter and more delicate 

 pectoral. 



Hab. Japan. 



Cyprinus langsdorfii, C. et V. xvi. p. 99. 



The 'Icones Piscium 24 a pictore Sinensi,' &c, include three figures which may belong to 

 this species, if they are not referable to the gibelioides of Cantor. They have the lobes of the 

 caudal and the sinus between them much more obtuse than those of gibelioides, or of Reeves's 

 figure 123, and apparently the large suborbitar of langsdorfii. Their lengths are 6 inches, 

 5^ and 3 inches respectively. 



Hab. Japan. 



Cyprinus thoracatus, C. et V. xvi. p. 97. 



M. Valenciennes refers to this species a Japanese painting of a fish whose Chinese name is 

 tsi, but this is a generic appellation apparently equivalent to Carassius. 



Hab. Mauritius (and Japan ?). 



Cyprinus abbre vi atus, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, 124; Hardw. Malac. 

 13. Chinese name, Suh huh tseih % (Birch) ; Suh hwut sih, " Contracted 

 bone carp" (Reeves) ; Shuh hwat tsih (Bridgem. Chrest. 20). Length of 

 drawing 7} inches. 



* Tsih is one of the names of the cuttle fish. 



t The teeth of the spines are omitted in the figure. 



% " The lish which has the power of raising and depressing, or rather puckering its bone." 



