FRESH- WATER FISHES FROM SHINANO. 



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9. Hemibarbus barbus (Schlegel). 



Local name : Aramegoi. 



Thirteen specimens, the largest being 13.5 cm. long as measured 

 to root of middle caudal rays. 



Dark gray above, pale beneath ; free edge of each scale black- 

 punctate. Several faint Longitudinal streaks, consisting of blackish 

 dots, run on upper parts of body. Two longitudinal rows of blackish 

 spots, somewhat concurrent with contour of back ; the lower row 

 runs anteriorly just above the lateral line, but posteriorly right on 

 that line, the spots of the row being smaller in size than pupil. The 

 upper row much fainter than the lower ; its spots above the interspace 

 of those of the lower row. All the spots are more distinct in the 

 smaller specimens. In small specimens, a black longitudinal line runs 

 on back from the beginning of nape to caudal base; it fork's into two 

 at the insertion of dorsal, to surround this at the base ; the line is 

 sometimes represented by a row of blackish spots. Head brown 

 above, pale beneath ; dorsal and caudal brownish, the edges much 

 darker ; anal pale or brownish, the free edge being darker in some 

 specimens than in others ; ventral and pectoral pale. Pharyngeal 

 teeth 4,3,1 — 1,3,5- Gill rakers on first gill-arch 4 + 8. 



10. Leucogobio jordani (Ishikawa). 



Local name: Moroko ; Morokko; Morokobaya ; Moro; Muro; Isliihaya; 

 Dotcppaya ; Dotchaya; Ishimuro; Tarekan. 



Numerous specimens, the largest being 7.7 cm. long as measured 

 to root of middle caudal rays. 



Head 4^, height of bod}- 4! in length as measured to root of 

 middle caudal rays. Dorsal originating midway between tip of snout 

 and root of middle caudal rays. In his original description""" of the 

 species Dr. Ishikawa says that " the height of the body is nearly 

 one-sixth of the total length (evidently inclusive of caudal), the length 

 of the head one-third ". lint from his drawing it appears that in his 



* Annot. Zool. Jap. vol. III, pt. IV, 1901, p. 163, tab. III. 



