4 AÎIT. 1. — S. TANAKA : 



The species described here is occasionally taken in the 

 Sagami Bay. It is not rare, though not so common as Ästrape 

 japonica. 



The type is a specimen 95 cm. in total length to caudal 

 base. It was obtained in the Tokyo tish market ou December 

 19*^, 1905. It is preserved in the museum of the Zoological 

 Institute, numbered 917. 



MEASUREMENTS OF THE SPECTES. 



