JAPANESE BLEXXOID FJSIIES—JOIiDAX AXD SXYDEB. 495 



Color apparenth" uniform; two or three dark stripes backward and 

 downward from eye; dark spots on dorsal and anal and irregular dark 

 cross streaks on pectoral and caudal. 



Known from two specimens from Hakodate, collected by Maximo- 

 wicz in 1863. (Herzenstein.) 



23. STICH^^OPSIS Kner and Steindachner. 



Stichirop.vs KsEii and Steindach.n'ek, Sitzber. Akad. Wi;^!^. Wien, 1870, p. 21 



(nana). 



Body moderately elono-ate, strongly compressed, scaleless. Head 

 short, pointed. Jaws equal, with a band of line-pointed teeth; no 

 teeth on vomer and palatines. Dorsal rays all spinous, onh^ the ante- 

 rior ones flexible at tip, the others stifl". Dorsal, anal, and caudal 

 united. Ventrals regularly formed, close together, each I, 4; jugular 

 in position. Pectoral long, pointed; caudal short. Lateral lines, three, 

 obscure, all incomplete. 



Okhotsk Sea. 



{sfic/iceus, oif'ig. appearance.) 



38. STICH^OPSIS NANA Kner and Steindachner. 



StichH'opsi'^ nana Kner and Steixdachxer, Sitzber. Akad. Wis8. Wien, 1870, p. 21; 

 Decastris Bay. 



Head 4 in total length 8^ in body; depth 5; eye 4 in head; snout 4; 

 D. XL VI; A. 20-21; C. 15; V. 5-5; P. 14. 



Mouth oblique, maxillary extending to a point a little anterior to 

 middle of eye. The ui)per of the strongly developed lateral lines 

 begins at upper edge of gill-opening and extends to a point below 

 base of tenth or twelfth dorsal spine. The second or middle one 

 begins not far from the tip of depressed pectoral and ends above the 

 middle of the l)ody; the third extends above base of anal. 



Bod} light l)rown. with irregular reddish-brown spots, which also 

 occasionally occur on the dorsal. Anal with a dark border on the 

 under side of the rays. Three dark l^ands radiate below and behind 

 the e3'e. xV dark-brown spot behind base of pectoral; a second at 

 beginning of upper lateral line. Man}^ brown specks on head, body, 

 and tins. 



A small specimen, somewhat over an inch long, from Decastris Bay. 

 (Steindachner and Kner.) 



Not seen by us. 



{txDiu.s^ dw^arf.) 



24. STICH^^US Reinhardt. 



StichscuK Reinhardt, Dansk. Vidensk. Xatur. ojr Math. Afhandl., 1837, p. 109 



{punclatus). 

 N(Aogi'ammits Bean, Proc. U. 8. Xat. Mus., IV, 1881, p. 147 {rolJtrvcli) ; young. 



Body moderatelv elongate, covered with small scales; teeth on jaws, 

 vomer and palatines. Lateral line present, single, running alongside 



