NOTES ON SOME JAPANESE FISHES. 



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and lateral canals ; the eighth behind base of pectoral ; the 

 ninth above base of ventral near lateral line. Free margin of 

 dorsals and of both lobes of candal blackish ; marghi of ventral 

 and pectoral also blackish. Numerons transverse broken lines 

 above the lateral canal. 



The type, a female taken off Miyako and 57 cm. long to the 

 caudal notch, is preserved in the museum of the Zoological 

 Institute, numbered 961. 



MEASUREMENTS OF THE SPECIES. 



