A CATALOGUE OF THE FISHES OF JAPAN. 



Scomber lapeinoccphalas Bleeker, I.e., p. 407. Nagasaki. 

 Distrib. — Hawaii; California; Atlantic; Philippine Islands; Japan. 



Genus Auxis Cuvier. 



AiLxis Cuvier, Règne Animal, 2nd ed., II, 1829, p. 199. 



Type Scomber rocJiei ^\'=,'~,o^= Scomber t hazard Lacépède. 



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346. Auxis thazard (Lacépède). (Fig. 87). 



Sôda-gatsuwo. 



Scomber tha.zard I^acépède, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, i8or, p. 9. Between 6 and 



7 S. lat., on coast of New Guinea. 

 AiLxis tapcinosoma Bleeker, P'auna Japan, in Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., VI, 1854, 



p. 40S. Nagasaki. 

 Distrib. — Hawaii ; New Guinea ; Japan. 



Fig. 87. 



Genus Euthynnus Lütken. 



liuthynnus Lütken in Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. Am., 1883, p. 429. 



Type Thynnus tJiunnina Cuvier & Valenciennes = ^6YJw/^rr alletteratus 

 Rafinesque. 



347. Euthynnus vagans (Lesson). 



Katsuwo. 



'fScomber pelamis Linnreus, Syst. Nat., loth ed., 1758, p. 297. '' In pelagico 



inter Tropicos." 

 Thyiimis 7mgans Lesson, Voy. Coq, Zool., II, 183 1, p. 162, pi. XXXII. 

 Thyiinus affliiis Cantor, Cat. Malay. Fish., 1850, p. 106. Sea of Pinang. 



(Perhaps distinct from Euthynnus pelamis of the Atlantic). 

 Distrib. — Hawaii ; Philippine Is.; Japan. 



