NO. 1239. APODAL FISHES OF JAPAN— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 887 



except 2 or 3 on anterior part of edge of upper jaw; no trace of fins 

 except a very slight fold on top of tail. 



Color uniform cinnamon brown above and ])elow; a darker .stiade 

 about gill opening. 



One specimen in excellent condition. No. 6482, Leland Stanford 

 Junior University Museum, from Okinawa, in the northern Riu Kiu, 



Fig. 22. Uropteeygius okixaw.e. 



collected bv Yonekichi Komeyama, of Tok^^o. It is distinguished from 

 other species of the genus by the very long body and very short tail. 

 From other Japanese morays, the absence of tins on the back at once 

 separates it. 



RECAPITULATION. 



Order SYMBRANCHIA. 

 Family I. Moxopteridj,. 



1. Monopterus Lacepede. 



1. albus (Zuiew). Okinawa, Amami-Oj^hema. 



Order APODES. 



Suborder ENCHELYCEPHALI. 



Family II. Axguillid.k. 



2. AnguiUa Shaw. 



2. jitponlca Sohlegel. Hako<late, Aomori, Same, ^latsiishima, Sendai, Tokyo, 

 Misaki, Wakanoura, Omura Bay, Kurume, Nagasaki. 



Family III. Synaphobraxchid.e. 



3. Si/naphohruncJtii.'< Johnson. 



3. affinis (Giinther). Totomi Bay, Tokyo, Misaki. 



4. iraconis Jordan and Snyder. Myiako. 



5. jenkinsi Jordan and Snyder. Eno.shima. 



4. Histiobranchus Gill. 



6. bathyhius ((xiinther). Not taken by ns. 



