NOTES ON SOME JAPANESE FJSIIES. ü 



front of the posterior tip of body and tluis leavini^ a pale space 

 there; the broadest of tlie bands one-lialf length of head in 

 width. 



The type is the only specimen known. It was taken in 

 Yaeyama, a village on Ishigaki Island (Riu-Kin Islands) and 

 was sent us by Mr. Ogawa, then principal of the normal school 

 of the district. It is registered under Mas. No. IÖ47. 



.MEASUREMENTS OF THE SPECIES. 



Totiil length 



Length of heiul. 



Length of head and trunk 



Height of body 



Height of head 



Horizontal diameter of eye 



Length of snout 



Interorbital width 



"Width of liody a short distance in front of vent. 



Macrostoma quercinum japonicum, n. subsp. 



PI. L, fig. 3. 



Head 4i in total length exclusive of caudal, height of 

 body 6 J ; eye 4} in head, interorbital width Si, snout öt, 

 maxillary 11. 



Body elongate, subcylindrical, a little compressed ; caudal 

 peduncle high, compressed. Head moderately long ; eye large, 

 lateral, close to upper profile of head; interorbital broad, convex; 



