400 Description of a collection of Fishes f rom China. 



COBITIS BIFURCATA, t. XKlll. fig . 1. 



A Loach with eight cirri, four on the upper jaw, two at the corners 

 of the mouth, and two bifurcated cirri on the lower jaw ; the head 

 short, compressed ; the body compressed so that the breadth is only- 

 equal to about half the depth of the body. The depth is about 

 equal from the nape to the tail ; both margins being nearly straight 

 and parallel. The lower margin extends in a straight line to the 

 mouth ; the head is arched in front, the eyes small, and situated 

 high and about midway between the nape and the snout. The 

 nostrils are situated a short distance in front of the eyes, and consist 

 on either side of a single external opening, with a tubular valve in 

 front. 



The branchial aperture is situated above the pectoral fins, and some 

 way behind the operculum, consisting of a small oblique slit ; the 

 pectoral fins are small, are situated low, and the dorsal and ventrals 

 about midway between the pectorals and base of the caudal. The 

 ventral fins reach to the vent ; the anal is situated midway between 

 the extremity of the ventrals and the base of the caudal. The fin 

 rays are, 



D.9:P. 10:V.6.A.7.C.16, together with an indefinite number 

 of gradually diminishing short rays as usual at the base of the 

 caudal. 



The colour seems to have been a mottled brown above, and below 

 yellowish white. 

 Habitat, — Chusan. 



Fig. 1. A is a magnified drawing of the lower view of the mouth 

 and cirri. 



CoBiTis PECTORALis, t. xxiii. 3. 

 A Loach with ten cirri, four on the upper jaw, two at the corners 

 of the mouth, and four small cirri on the lower jaw, two of which 

 are very minute, and might be considered appendages rather than 

 cirri. 



The pectoral fins are large, the body arched uniformly from the 

 eyes to the dorsal, and chiefly compressed at the tail, the head rather 

 long and low. The dorsal is situated behind the middle of the back, 

 the ventrals do not reach to the vent. The branchial aperture 



