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Genus Mi nous Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Minous Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, P- 420. 

 Type LlinoiLs luoora Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



728. Minous adamsi Richardson. 



Hime-okoze. 



Acinous adamsi Richardson, Voy. Samarang, 1850, p. 7, pi. II, figs. 4,5. Sea 



of China. 

 Mifious ecJiigoniiis Jordan & Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVII, 1904, p. 



153, fig. 14. Niigata, Echigo. 

 Distrib. — Wakanoura to Nagasaki ; Niigata ; China. 



729. Minous inermis Alcock. 



Ito-okoze. 



JMinoiis inermis Alcock, Jour. Asiatic. Soc. Bengal, 1889, LVIII, pt. II, p. 299, 



plate 22, fig. 4. Bay of Bengal. 

 Distrib. — Bay of Bengal ; Misaki, Sagami (Franz). 



Genus DeCteriaS Jordan & Starks. 



Decterias Jordan & Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVII, 1904, p. 154. 

 Type Minoîis piisilhis Temminck & Schlegel. 



730. Decterias pusillus (^Temminck & Schlegel). (Fig. 182). 



Yase-okoze. 



Minons pusillus Temminck & Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1843, P- 50- 



Nagasaki, 

 Distrib. — Nagasaki ; Wakanoura. 



Genus Erosa (Swainson) Jordan & Starks. 



Erosa Swainson, Nat. Hist. Classn. Anim., II, 1839, P- öl ; diagnosis, no 

 reference to type, Synanceia erosa Langsdorf, understood from context. 



