NO. 1240. CARDINAL FISHES OF JAPAN- JORDAN A^WSNYDER. 897 



""CoasW^^eni Japan; said to be common in Kagoshima and 

 Kochi our sino-le specimen from AVakanoura. This species is close 

 to ■ipo./on M^l Day, from India, a species witii which it is identihed 

 by Dr' Steindachner. But A. MiotL in addition to the markmus in 

 A. n.arglnatas, has a grayish lateral band ending in a dusky spot at 



Y\c,. :;.— Al"(»i<lN' MAK<;INATrS. 



base of caudal. Apogon arafun, Giinther, from the Araf ura Se.v near 

 Borneo, is equally closely related, but lacks the black-dot ed edge ot 

 the preopercle; the soft dorsal, anal, and caudal are not colored in the 



.same way. 



{3£arglnatm, edged.) 



5. APOGON UNICOLOR Doderlein. 

 (Plate XLIII.) 



-Xpogon hlfnsciatu. Stkindachnek Fische Japann, II, 1883, p. 2, Shik.kn, 



Kagoshima. (Coll. Doderlein as '^ly.of/on^uto^^^^^^ 

 .l^,or/o»Hmco?or Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Muh., XXIII, l.n)l. P- -4.), 

 pi. XXXII, Yokohama. 

 Head n in length; depth 2f ; depth of ca^idjvl peduncle .ii; chaim 

 eter of eye 3| m head; snout 3f; maxillary If; D. VlI-I+9; A II+8 

 P 13- s4les in lateral line 25; between lateral line and insertion ot 

 spinous dorsal 2; between lateral line and anal 13. ^ , . ,. 



Depth of body a little less than length of head; the caudal peduncle 

 long and comparatiyely slender, narrowest near the middle. Inter- 

 orbital space conyex. Snout bluntly pomted. 



Eye large, the diameter greater than length ot snout. Mouth 

 oblique; j-vs equal; maxillary reaching almost to posterK>r edge at 

 orbit; its upper edge coyered for nearly the entire length b, the su^ 

 orbital Teeth yiUiform, in bands on jaws, palatines, and yonier; the 

 toothed area of the palatines yery small. (liU-rakers on hrst aivh 



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