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Alutera scripta is proljably rare in Japan. The original sclpfa 

 came from China; the American species, Osheckla proho.seldea Ranzani, 

 ma}^ very likely prove to be different. 



{sanptit.^, written, from the form of the marking-s.) 



IS. PSEUDALUTERES Bleaker. 

 P.s,'H<la}nt,'n:'< Blkeker, Ned. Tydn. Dierk., Ill, 1865, p. 28 (iHisicornis). 

 This genus differs from Osbeckia in the small size and anterior 

 insertion of the dorsal spine, which is weak and placed in advance of 

 the orbit. 



(tp£vdrj5^ false; Alutera). 



ig. PSEUDALUTERES NASICORNIS (Schlegel). 



Alntem nasicornis Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Pois8., 1846, p. 228, j)!. cxxxi, 

 %. 2; Nagasaki.— Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., V, 1853, p. 352. 



Psmdohderes nasicornis Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., Ill, 1865, p. 28.— Bleeker, 

 Atlas Ichth., V, 1865-69, p. 139, pi. ccxxi, tig. 1; pi. ccxxiv, fig. 2. 



Monacanthus ntuicorms Gunther, Cat. Fish., VIII, 1870, p. 254; Zanziljar, 

 Amboina. 



Aluterusrhinocerus Uoi.hARD, Ann. Sci., IV, 1855, p. 19, pi. i, fig. 5. 



Depth 3 in length; D. 11. 43 to 49; A. 41 to 40. Body oblong, 

 covered with minute rough scales. Snout convex in young males and 

 very convex in adult males; eye 3f to 4 in head, and 2i in snout; 

 teeth sharply compressed; the lower emarginate; gill opening arising 

 before the middle of the liase of the pectoral, and below the posterior 

 part of the orbit; spinous dorsal before the eye and nostrils, nearly 

 as long as the head, straight and without barbs; soft dorsal and anal 

 low, obtusely rounded, with the origin of the former in advance of the 

 latter; caudal shortly rounded but with the angles acute; pectorals 

 obtusely rounded. Color yellowish or reddish l)rown; a broad stripe 

 from eye to caudal, like the back, olive or brownish violet; rays of 

 fins yellow or golden, the membranes clear bluish; middle of caudal 

 purplish-blue or brown; eyes yellow; males with 2 narrow bluish bars 

 on sides, the upper through the eye and parallel with the dorsal out- 

 line of the back to the base of the last dorsal ray, and the lower from 

 along the abdominal region; body everywhere with small red spots, 

 which run in a series along the bases of soft dorsal and anal. Length 

 5i inches. (Schlegel, Blocker, Giinther.) 



This little fish, not rare in the East Indies, has l)een but once recorded 

 from Japan. It was not taken by us. 

 {uasii.s, nose; cor/ia, horn.) 



