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A. 11, &c. The front of the ventrals is rather before the dorsal : the anal is small, the caudal 

 deeply forked with thickish lobes. The lateral line is a little decurved over the pectoral, and 

 then takes a straight course below the middle of the height to the caudal. It is traced on 

 about forty-eight scales, which are consequently rather small, fourteen or fifteen rows are re- 

 presented in the height. 



The colour of the back is pure oil-green, the silvery borders of the scales increasing in 

 breadth on the flanks, the green is confined to a slight tinge on the base of each, and on the 

 belly it is replaced by pearl-gray. Caudal saffron-yellow with a bluish-gray border. The 

 top of the head is coloured like the back, the snout and under jaw are crimson, the temples 

 mountain-green, and the operculum purple. The dorsal is pale buff with the third ray crimson, 

 and there are crimson tints on the bases of the inferior fins ; the front of the anal being yel- 

 lowish-green. All the inferior fins appear to be transparent. 



Hab. Canton. 



Leuciscus b ambus a, Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of Sulphur, p. 141. pi. 63. 

 f. 2. Icon. Reeves, 286 ; Hardw. Malac. 32. Chinese name, Chuh nuy 

 yu, "Bamboo spoilt fish" (Birch). (An Chela, Ham. Buch.? Pelecus, 

 Agassi z ?) 



A specimen was presented to the British Museum by John Reeves, Esq. which measures 

 seventeen inches in length. Not having seen Mr. Reeves's drawing of this species until after 

 the publication of the ' Ichthyology of the Voyage of the Sulphur,' the colours of the recent fish 

 were not therein described. They are pale chestnut-brown on the back with silvery discs to 

 the scales, and a gradual passage into greenish-gray on the belly. The jaws, pectorals, lower 

 fins, and under lobe of the caudal are ochre-yellow ; the upper lobe of the caudal the same, 

 with a greenish tinge, and the dorsal greenish-blue. There are also some blushes of carmine 

 at the bases of the ventrals and caudal. This Leuciscus is remarkable for the size and soli- 

 dity of the intermaxillaries, and for the conical process which rises from the symphysis of the 

 lower jaw, as well as for its slender form. 



Hab. Canton. 



Leuciscus curriculus, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, 141 ; Hardw. Malac. 28. 



Chinese name, Hih shih wan, " Stone-black barrow (Birch) ; " Black-stone 



carriage" (Reeves) ; Hak shik wan (Bridgem. Chrest. 236). Rod. omnes 



articulati; D. 8 ; A. 9; C. 19f ; P. 19; V. 9. (Spec. Br. Mus. J. R. 



Reeves, Esq.) Length 8£ inches. Height of body 1-^ inch. Thickness 



0*95. Length of head 1*4<8 inch. 



Shape fusiform, with a conical head and narrow snout slightly longer than the lower jaw. 

 The lateral line runs in the middle of the height, and has a gentle decurvature from end to 

 end. It is traced on forty scales, and there are ten or eleven rows in the height. The height 

 slightly surpasses the length of the head, and is contained five times and a half in the total 

 length of the fish. The dorsal, narrow and less in height than the body, commences oppo- 

 site to the front of the ventrals, which are in the middle of the length, caudal excluded. 

 The pectorals are obtuse and do not reach the ventrals. The anal is short and similar to the 

 dorsal. Caudal forked. Operculum striated. 



Colour of the back liver-brown, with greenish glosses and longitudinal streaks of darker 

 brown. Beneath the lateral line the scales have much nacry lustre and a very pale roseate 

 tint. There are some grass-green tints round the eye and on the operculum. The fins are 

 dark olive or blackish-green, with crimson tints on the bases of all except the dorsal. 



Hab. Canton. 



Leuciscus vandella, C. et V. xvii. p. 363. Icones Piscium 24? a pictore 



Sinensi, &c. (two figures on separate sheets). 



Judging from the drawings, this approaches closely to curriculus, but its caudal is more 

 forked and the lateral line more bent down and in a different curve. 



Hab. Canton. 



Leuciscus plenus, Broussonnet MSS. in Descript. of Anim. p. 204?. fig. 197 

 ( Cyprinus). 



This sketch most resembles L. curriculus (141 Reeves), but does not quite agree with it. 

 " The head is oblong, somewhat depressed. Body oblong and roundish. Dorsal nearly in 

 the middle. Tail bifid. Ventrals opposite to the posterior ray of the dorsal. Pectorals 

 pointed. Lateral line convex downwards." " D. 8 ; A. 11; C. 20; P. 14; V. 10." A 

 foot long. 



Hab. " Canton river." 



