296 report — 1845. 



anal, and then runs straight for the short remaining space to the caudal. Scales small, there 

 being about sixty-eight rows represented between the gill-opening and caudal. Dorsal having 

 a height in front of twice the length of its base, acute and placed over the middle space be- 

 tween the ventrals and anal. Its second ray is represented as strong, round and curved like 

 that of a Rhodius, and the first one as slender, but only a third part shorter. Anus behind 

 % the middle, ventrals well forward, and the pectorals triangular and acute. D. 2|6 ; last di- 

 vided to base ; A. 31. Caudal forked. The scales have silvery discs, and are shaded at the 

 base with greenish-gray on the back; on the upper part of the sides with very pale buff or 

 ochre-yellow ; and below the lateral line with pearl-gray, the whole being very bright, except 

 on the summit of the back, where the gray spreads over the entire discs of the scales. Dorsal 

 the colour of the back, with a brownish tint on the rays. Pectoral, ventrals and anal colour- 

 less on the outer halves, and yellowish-brown at the base. In the anal the brown is confined 

 to the fore part of the fin. The caudal is tinged with darker yellowish-brown at the base, and 

 is bluish-gray on the posterior half. 

 Hab. Canton. 



Leuciscus molitorella, C. et V. xvii. p. 359 ; Icon. Reeves, 110 ; Hardw. 

 Malac. 22. Chinese name, Too ling*, * Land carp" (Birch); "Ground 

 carp" (Reeves); To ling (Bridgem. Chrest. 33). Length of drawing 13^ 

 inches. Height of body 3*1 inches. Length of head 2*15. Genus Aspins?, 



Agassiz. 



This drawing has all the characters recorded by M. Valenciennes of molitorella, except that 

 the caudal has longer and more pointed lobes than other Leucisci represented in Mr. Reeves's 

 drawings, while this fin is said in the molitorella to have the lobes rounded and little length- 

 ened. I have not however thought it advisable to keep it distinct merely because of this dis- 

 crepancy. In the drawing the snout projects beyond the mouth, which is small, with the 

 lower jaw shutting close up. Its dorsal is large, triangular, and as high in front as the body, 

 with a base nearly as long as its height. The ventrals are attached beneath its middle. The 

 anal is nearer to the caudal than to the ventrals. The rays are D. 12 or 13 ; A. 7. 



The summit of the back is olive-green, with a quadrangular spot at the base of each scale 

 of dark duck-green approaching to blackish-green. These spots disappear above the lateral 

 line, which is nearly straight, and give place to a pale shading of bluish-green, which is re- 

 placed on the belly by cream-yellow, the discs of the scales being mostly silvery. About 

 twelve of the scales immediately above the pectoral fin are bordered with china-blue, their 

 discs remaining silvery, and thus producing a reticulated rhomboidal spot. The dorsal, ventrals 

 and anal are very pale mountain-green and transparent ; the first being oil-green at the base, 

 and the two latter tipped with peach-blossom red. The caudal has greenish rays and roseate 

 tints with a bluish-gray edge ; and the rays of the pectoral are also greenish with a faintly 

 roseate membrane. The sides of the head are silvery, shaded with green and glossed by some 

 rose-coloured and lilac tints. 



Hab. Canton. 



Leuciscus fintella, C. et V. xvii. p. 356. 



Hab. China. 



Leuciscus hemistictus, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, 133; Hardw. Malac. 

 26. Chinese name, Tsing yu (Reeves, Birch). Length of figure 14-^ 

 inches. 



L. fintella is represented as being thrice as long as it is high ; but in the figure of hemi- 

 stictus the height is contained four times and a half in the length, and the head five times. It 

 has a general resemblance to the Barilius goha of Buchanan Hamilton, p. 385 (Hardw. Malac. 

 36 and 53 ; Opsarius gracilis, M'Clelland, 47. f. 1), but it wants the spots on the head, and 

 the dots on the body are blacker and more regular. The profile of hemistictus is symmetrically 

 fusiform. The head is a slender cone with a bluntish apex ; and the lower jaw, which is 

 shorter than the upper one, is represented as shutting as it were partly within it. The dorsal 

 commences a little before the ventrals, which are attached in the middle of the length, caudal 

 excluded, and the vent terminates the third quarter of the same distance. No streaks on the 

 gill-cover. Scales large, smooth and nacry, thirty-eight in a longitudinal row and eight or 

 nine in height. The lateral line is evenly decurved and runs beneath mid-height till it passes 

 the anal, after which it runs straight in the middle of the tail. Back olive-green with a nar- 

 row border of paler oil-green to the posterior edge of each scale, and a well-defined round 

 spot of blackish-green or greenish-black on the base, making six rows in the middle of the 



* Ling is " a kind of carp," " a fish resembling a carp." 



