NO. i-'39. A POD A L FISHES OF J A PA N—JOR DA X A ND SX 1 'DER. 883 



Muriena reticulata Richardson, Voyage Erebus and Terror, 1847, p. 82, Sea of 



Borneo. — Kaup, Apodes, 1856, p. 60, fig. xi.ix. 

 Munrna minor Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1846, p. 2(iy, pi. cxv, rig. 2, 



Nagasaki. 

 J'riudoiiophis ruinur Bleekek, Verh. Bat. Gen., XXVI, ji. 12;!. — Kxek, Novara 



Fische, p. 382. 



Head '2^ in trunk; 7^ in total length; head and trunk a little .shorter 

 than tail; snout .short, blunt, 8 in head; nasal tube very short, about 

 half eye, which is 1^ in snout; mouth closing completely; cleft of 

 mouth 8i in head; teeth one-rowed, their points turned backward, the 

 edges of some slightly serrated, about 14 on each side of mandible; a 

 large depress! ble canine on vomer; the other teeth all or nearly all 

 iixed; gill opening scarcely as large as eye, the dorsal beginning well 

 before it; dorsal rather high. 



Yellowish or whitish l)rown, with 15 to 22 dark cross bands made 

 up of different brown spots, these mostly turning into ))lack on the 

 belly, where they are ver}' distinct; thej" are also more distinct on the 

 dorsal tin; upper parts every where on bands and between them closeh' 

 covered with dark-brown spots of different sizes; lower jaw with cross 

 bands of .spots. There is considerable variation in the ground color 

 and in the clearness of the l)ands and spots. The bands are very dis- 

 tinct on the ventral line. In life the pale markings haA'e a pinkish 

 shade. 



Of this small mora3% we have five specimens, the largest 22^ inches 

 long, from Wakanoura, and one from Misaki. 



It can be confounded with no other species in Japanese waters, as 

 no other has dark bands distinct on the belh^ [Reticularis, netted.) 



27. v^MASIA Jordan and Snyder, new genus. 



^masid Jordan and Snyder, new genus {lichenosa). 



This genus differs from Gyinnotlionij' in the large mouth and very 

 numerous depressible fang-like canines, there being about 30 of these 

 in all on jaws and vomer. Teeth in both jaws biserial, mouth not 

 closing completely. Doubtless .some of the species hitherto referred 

 to (ryuinothoi'ax belong to this genus, but none of them known to 

 us have such an array of bristling teeth as the type of J']masia. 

 {ai}.uxaia^ a hedge, frojn the bri.stling teeth.) 



47. iEMASIA LICHENOSA Jordan and Snyder, new species. 



Head '1\ in trunk, 7 in total length; head and trunk a little shorter 

 than tail; body robust, the depth about half head; mouth very large, 

 the jaws not closing completely; clef t of mouth 21 in head; teeth ver}" 

 shar}), mostly set vertically, the long .slender canines in inner series of 

 both jaws and on vomer depressible; teeth on both jaws and A'omer 

 biserial, the teeth on vomer largest; about 18 large teeth on each side 

 of lower jaw; about 30 depressible canines in all within the mouth; 



