A LIST OF FISHES COLLECTED IN JAPAN BY KEINO- 

 SUKE OTAKI, AND Bl THE -UNITED STATES STEAMER 

 ALBATROSS, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF FOURTEEN NEW 

 SPECIES. 



By David Starr Jordan and John Otterbein Snydek, 



Of the Leland Sknifnrd Junior University. 



The present paper contains a list of the fishes from Japan contained 

 in the Museum of Leland Stanford Junior LTniversit}^ or sent by that 

 institution to the U. S. National Museum in Washing-ton, with descrip- 

 tions and figures of species which seem to be new to science. 



The chief material on which this list is based is a collection made in 

 1895 and 1806 in the Buy of Tokyo about Misaki, and in Lake 

 Biwa, by Keinosuke Otaki, a graduate of Stanford University and 

 now professor in the Imperial Military Academy in Tokyo, but at that 

 time an assistant to the Imperial Fisheries Bureau of Japan. Profes- 

 sor Otaki's collections were obtained under the auspices of the Hop- 

 kins Seaside Laboratory on Monterey Bay, under the patronage of 

 Mr. Timothy Hopkins. 



Supplementing these collections of Professor Otaki is a small col- 

 lection of fishes from Lake Biwa, sent by Prof. C. Ishikawa, of the 

 agricultural department in the Imperial Universit}' in Tokyo, and a 

 collection of gobies and other small fishes from Prof. K. Kishinouye 

 of the Imperial Fisheries Bureau. A few specimens have also been 

 sent by Prof. Kakichi Mitsukuri of the Imperial Universit}' of Tokj'o. 



Collections of importance were made by the Albatross under the 

 direction of Lieut. -Commander Jefl'erson F. Moser, LT. S. N., in the 

 surumer of 1806, while engaged in investigations under the direction 

 of the United States Fur Seal Commission. 



These collections were mainly from Shana Bay, Iturup Island, from 

 Ushishir Island, from Hakodate, and from about Yokohama. The 

 specimens from the Kuriles have been already described in Jordan and 

 Gilbert's "" Fishes of Bering Sea," those from Hakodate and Yokohama 

 (Bay of Tokyo) are here noted for the first time. 



The t3^pes of the new species are all deposited in the U. S. National 

 Museum, together with specimens of many of the others. 



Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXIII— No. 1213. 



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