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Elopichthys dahuricuSf from the Yang-tse Kiang. Under this name, 
Bleeker redescribes and figures Naseus dahuricus, Basilewsky, which he 
thinks is distinct from E. (Leuciscus) bambusa, Richards. & Uiinth., but 
probably identical with Basilius (Opsarius) bambusa^ Kner. P. Z. S. 
1875, pp. 634-536, pi. lx. 
Cobitis tcenia, L. Observations on the habits of this species, and on 
external characters by which the sexes may be distinguished ; Ceder- 
strom, (Efv. Ak. Forh. xxxi. 1875 (1874) pp. 47-53, pi. xi. figs. 5-8. 
Cobitis toni, sp. n., Dybowski, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxiv. p. 392, Irkut, 
Sielenga, and Angara rivers, and Lake Kossogal. 
Gastromyzon^ g. n., Gthr. [Zool. Rec. xi. p. 104], was by an oversight 
put under Siluridm homaloptercB instead of Cyprinidos homalopterina^ to 
which it belongs. 
Characinidji. 
Steindachner describes the CharacinidcB of South-eastern Brazil in 
SB. Ak. Wien, Ixx. pp. 624-538, pis. v. & vi. & Ixxi., pp. 211-244, 
pis. i.-vi., characterizing as new: — 
Curimatus elegans^ p. 629. 
Prochilodus harti and brevis, pp. 633 & 636, pis. v. & vi.^ 
Anostomus hneri, p. 211, pi. i. figs. 1 & 2. 
Leporinus ajffinis, p. 228, pi. hi., L. bahiensis, p. 231, pi. ii. fig. 2, L. 
conirostris, p. 233, pi. iv., L. copelandi, p. 236, pi. v. figs. 1, 2, a, b, L. 
mormyrops, p. 240, pi. vi. 
Leporinus elongatus, 0. V., figured and described; id. op. cit. Ixxi. 
p. 216, pi. ii. fig. 1. 
Liitken, in ‘ Velhas Flodens Fiskes ’ (Dan. Selsk. Skr. 1876), publishes 
figures or cuts of the following species with the descriptions which have 
appeared before : — 
Prochilodus affinis, Rhdt. & Liitk., p. 189. 
Parodon hilarii, Rhdt., p. 194, figs. 3 & 4. 
Characidium fasciatum, Rhdt., p. 194, figs. 1 & 2. 
Leporinus rheinhardti, toeniatus, and marcgravii, Rhdt. & Ltk., pi. iv. 
figs. 9-11. 
Tetragonopterus lacustris, cuvieri, rivularis, gracilis, and nanus, Rhdt. 
&Ltk., pi. V. figs. 12-17. 
Chirodon piaba,^^^., p. 221. 
Brycon lundi, Rhdt. & Ltk., p. 223. 
Piabina argentea, Rhdt., p. 226, 
Serrasalmo {Pygocentrus) piraya, Cuv., p. 234, and S. brandti, Rhdt. 
& Ltk., p. 238. 
Myletes (Tometes) micanSf Rhdt. & Ltk., p. 243. 
Salmonidjj. 
f On the food and habits of the common species of this family ; D. Bar- 
1 furth, Arch. f. N. 1875, pp. 122-168 (and separately, Bonn. : 1874). 
- ^ On the breeding of various kinds of fish, especially Salmonidcc, in the 
\ lakes of Upper Austria : L. Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, Ixx. pp. 394-400. 
