A SMALL COLLECTION OF FISHES FROM SOOCHOW, CHINA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES. By Henry W. Fowler, Of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and Barton A. Bean, Of the United States National Museum. The present collection consists of a number of small fishes sent as a lot of samples, by Mr. N. Gist Gee, from Soochow, China, to the United States Bureau of Fisheries at Washington, District of Columbia. Through the interest of Dr. Hugh M. Smith they were placed in our hands for study, then to be installed in the United States National Museum. For the most part they represent species but little known, and two appear to be new. Family ENGRAULIDIDAE. COILIA CLUPEOIDES (Lac6p6de). Head, 6; depth, 5§; D. Ill, 9; A. S3; abdominal scutes, 17+28; 60 ( ?) Cpockets) scales in lateral row from shoulder to caudal base medi-ally; 14 predorsal scales; 10 scales transversely from anal origin to middle of back behind dorsal; snout, 4^ in head; eye, 5; interorbital, 2|. Head width, half its length. Snout conic, cavernous, hke inter-orbital and top of head, width half its length. Eye at first third in head. Mouth large, symphysis about midway in snout length. Max-illary extends 1 +§ eye diameters beyond opercle, expansion IJ in eye. Entire maxillary edge with row of fine teeth. Gill-rakers 17+30, slen-der, lanceolate, equal eye, and filaments half length of rakers. Scales all fallen. First branched dorsal ray 1| in head; second anal ray 3|; ventral, 2; pectoral, 2a to caudal base, rays long and filamentous. Body uniform pale brownish in alcohol. Dorsal and anal terminally dusted with pale dusky. Iris pale slaty. Length, 133 mm. Family SALANGIDAE. SALANX CUVIERI Cuvier and Valenciennes. Head, 4| to 6; depth, 1 to 2\ in head; D. Ill, 9 ( ?) or 10; A. II, 20 ( ?) or 23; P. I, 8; snout, 2§ to 3 in head; eye, 2f to 6|; maxillary, 2\ to 2^; interorbital, 2-3. Body moderately compressed, deepest midway Proceedings U. S. National Museum. Vol. 58— No. 2338. 307
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