300 REPORT — 1845. 



Leuciscus cupreus, C. et V. xvii. p. 361. 



Hab. China. 



Leuciscus homospilotus, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, a. 20 ; Hardw. Ma- 

 lac. 27. Chinese name, Hung yen seun, " Red-eyed sprout " (Birch) ; 

 Hung lang seun, " Red-eyed ? seun" (Reeves) ; Hung ngen sun (Bridgem. 

 Chrest. 236). Length of figure 10 inches. Height of body 2*2 inches. 

 Length of head 1*9 inch. Genus Aspius ?, Agassiz. Alburnus ?, Heckel, 

 This fish has an elegant, symmetrical fusiform shape, the back rather less arched than the 

 belly, the face nearly straight, and a very slight gibbosity at the nape. The head is slenderly 

 conical with an obtuse snout, projecting a little beyond the lower jaw. The eye is nearly in the 

 centre, between the tip of the snout and the gill-opening, and the nostrils are considerably 

 before it. Dorsal rounded, commencing opposite the front of the ventrals. Anal short, mo- 

 derately high. Caudal forked. Lateral line equally decurved to near the caudal, descending 

 a little below the middle opposite to the ventrals, and traced on about thirty-five scales. There 

 are nine rows in the height. D. 9 ; A. 9 or 10, &c. 



Colour of the back pure wood-brown, with four or five streaks of the same through the rows 

 of scales. The scales are shaded with pearl or ash-gray below the lateral line. Caudal leek- 

 green. Dorsal, anal and ventrals mountain-green, with crimson tints on the rays. Pectorals 

 crimson and asparagus-green. Upper quarter of the iris orpiment-orange, the rest silvery. 

 There are a few black specks on the commencement of the lateral line, and three short rows 

 of similar ones above it ; the middle row being under the dorsal and the two others on the 

 shoulder. 



Hab. Canton. 



Leuciscus jeneus, C. et V. xvii. p. 361. 



Hab. China. 



Leuciscus temminckii, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. (unpubl.) Rad. D. 9 ; 

 A. 13 ; C. 19J ; P. 13 ; V. 9. (Spec. Brit. Mus. 2*4 inches long.) 

 Lateral line decurved, principally in the pectoral region, to the lower quarter of the height. 

 Forty-two scales in a row. A dark longitudinal stripe on the middle of the side. Lateral 

 line lower than that of L. homospilotus, which this fish resembles in profile. 

 Hab. Japan. 



Leuciscus platypus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. (unpubl.) Rad. D. 9 ; 

 A. 12 ; C. 19J; P. 17 ; V. 9. (Spec. Brit. Mus. 5 inches long.) 



Lateral line decurved to lower third of height. Forty-three scales in a row. Rays of the 

 anal curiously compressed. 

 Hab. Japan. 



Leuciscus minor, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. (unpubl.) Rad. D. 9 ; 

 A. 11 ; C. 19f ; P. 15; V. 9. (Spec. Brit. Mus. 3} inches long.) 



Lateral line decurved to the lower quarter of the height. Thirty-nine scales in a row. 

 Hab. Japan. 



Cobitis anguillicaudatus, Cantor, Ann. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 30. An. 184-2; 

 Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of the Sulph. p. 143. pi. 55. f. 9, 10. C.pec- 

 toralis, McClelland, Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. p. 400. pi. 23. f. 3. An. 1844. 

 C. ei-ythropterus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. Icon. Reeves, 278 ; Hardw. 

 Malac. 118 et 119. dupl. 



The British Museum and the India House are in possession of several of Dr. Cantor's spe- 

 cimens, and of a Japanese one named by the authors of the ' Fauna Japonica; five or six were 

 presented by Sir Everard Home, Bart, to the College of Surgeons. 



Hab. Canton. Chusan. Yang tze kiang kew. 



Cobitis psammismus, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, 145 ; Hardw. Malac. 120. 

 Chinese name, Sha chuy, "Sand club" (Birch); Sha Chivy, "Sand- 

 needle" (Reeves) ; Sha chui (Bridgem. Chrest. 104). Length of drawing 

 *1\ inches. 



