NOTES ON SOME JAPANESE FISHER. 



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Ä[axillary 



First spine of dorsal 



Second spine of dorsal 



Third spine of dorsal 



First ray of dorsal 



Second and third ray of dorsal , 



Sixth and Seventh ray of dorsal 



Spine of anal 



First ray of anal 



Second ray of anal 



Tenth ray of anal 



Pectoral 



Spine of ventral 



First ray of ventral 



Second ray of ventral 



Third ray of ventral 



Fourth ray of ventral 



Fifth ray of ventral 



Middle ray of caudal (inclusive of scaly sheath). 

 Middle ray of caudal (exclusive of scaly sheath). 



4.7 cm. 



2.7 „ 



4.65 „ 



5.7 „ 



5.6 „ 

 5.25 „ 



6.7 „ 

 1.7 „ 

 3.1 „ 



4.4 „ 

 8.1 „ 



5.25 „ 



3.65 „ 



8.5 „ 

 9.25 „ 



8.7 „ 



5.65 „ 



4.0 „ 



19.0 „ 



16.5 „ 



Xiphasia setifer Swainson. 

 PI. IV., fig. 1. 



Xiphasia setifer Swainson. Day, Fish. India, 1878-1888, 

 pp. 336-337, p. 799 ; Coromandel coast of ludia and New South 

 Wales, possibly Madagascar, and probably the South Sea. 



The specimens here referred to Xiphasia setifer may be 

 said to totally well with the description of that species given in 

 Day's " Fish of India, '""^ though not without some points of 

 difference. As this species has never before been recorded from 

 our coast, I may here give a full description. 



») Loc. cit. 



