. A catalog of the fishes known from the waters of Korea. Fishes. JORDAN AND METZ: FISHES KNOWN FROM THE WATERS OF KOREA 11 34. Spirinchus verecundus sp. nov. (Plate I, fig. 2.) Type No. 4570, inches, Chinnampo, Korea; cotype, No. 4097. Allied to Osmerus or Spirinchus thaleichthys Ayres, from the coast of Cali- fornia. D. 10; A. 13; V. 8; scales 6-64; depth ; head ; eye in head; snout ; interorbital ; maxillary ; number of branchiostegals 7; gill- rakers numerous, slender, about 12-24; lateral line median. Teeth on vomer, palatines, and tongue moderate, canine-like,
. A catalog of the fishes known from the waters of Korea. Fishes. JORDAN AND METZ: FISHES KNOWN FROM THE WATERS OF KOREA 11 34. Spirinchus verecundus sp. nov. (Plate I, fig. 2.) Type No. 4570, inches, Chinnampo, Korea; cotype, No. 4097. Allied to Osmerus or Spirinchus thaleichthys Ayres, from the coast of Cali- fornia. D. 10; A. 13; V. 8; scales 6-64; depth ; head ; eye in head; snout ; interorbital ; maxillary ; number of branchiostegals 7; gill- rakers numerous, slender, about 12-24; lateral line median. Teeth on vomer, palatines, and tongue moderate, canine-like, none of them very large, those on jaws very minute. Body slender, compressed, long; dorsal and ventral outlines similar; head rather stout, flat on top; snout bluntly pointed; lower jaw slightly projecting; mouth rather large; maxillary reaching pupil; eye moderate, elevated, nearer tip of snout than gill-opening. Scales rather small, cycloid, none on head. Dorsal short, rather high, inserted midway between tip of snout and base of caudal; third ray longest, in head; distance between insertion of dorsal and adipose dorsal exactly one-third the length of the body; caudal deeply emarginate; pectoral moderate, in head, reaching slightly over half-way to ventrals; ventrals inserted under anterior third of dorsal, reaching half-way to anal; anal short, inserted two-thirds of its length before adipose dorsal. Color dusky above, darkest on back and in a stripe along lateral line; under parts and all fins pale. Described from three specimens inches in total length, taken at Chinnampo, Korea. The type is Number 4570 in the Carnegie Museum. A cotype is in the collection of Stanford University. Family 35. Salanx hyalocranius Abbott. "; Chinnampo, River Kanko, near Fusan (No. 4253a-d and 4524a-g). Other- wise known only from about Tientsin. Locally abundant. This species is Eperlanus chinensis of Basilewsky (Ichthyographia Chinee Borealis, 1855,
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