N0.12W. JAPANESE CH.ETODONTID.E— JORDAN AND EOWLER. 547 



jaw projects, the snout being blunt; teeth slender, niunerous, and in 

 brush-like series in the jaws; preopereuluni, with the edge finely den- 

 ticulate, and armed below with a strong, compressed spine, directed 

 backward; gill-opening large, the isthmus thick, and the membrane 

 narrowly joined to it; gill rakers short and in moderate number; dor- 

 sal and anal almost entirely coyered with small, rough scales, the 

 spinous portions of the fins yery rough; spinous dorsal higher pos- 

 teriorly, gradually sloping up from the front; soft dorsal high, its 

 edge rounded; anal graduated to the third spine which is the longest; 

 soft anal high, the edge rounded behind; pectorals, low; yentral spine 

 equal to third anal spine. Lateral line arched aboye, so that it is con- 

 current with the margin of the dorsal, and extending on the caudal 

 peduncle. Caudal peduncle compressed, and a trifle oyer 2 in the head. 



Color of the adult in spirits, dark brown, the caudal white; soft 

 dorsal, anal, and caudal peduncle blackish, the edges of the former two 

 fins narrowl}' margined with wdiite; on the sides are 10 narrow longi- 

 tudinal dark bands, margined rather broadly with blackish, some 

 extending out on the soft dorsal and anal nearly parallel with the fin 

 rays; on the anterior part of the dorsal and anal, seyeral of the ))ars 

 are nearly longitudinal; pectoral with a bar across its basal portion, 

 otherwise, like the ventrals, plain. Length, 5|f inches. In a small 

 specimen, 2|| inches long, the bands on the sides are 7 in number and 

 broad, the soft dorsal and anal are yer}" dark, almost uniform l)lack, 

 and there are two broad longitudinal ]>ands on the spinous dorsal 

 extending to the soft dorsal and two similar bands on the anal in front. 

 In both specimens the bands are sometimes either interrupted or 

 broken, the two sides not conforming. Here described from two 

 examples, the larger from Misaki and the smaller from Wakanoura. 



Numbered 7191, Leland Stanford Junior Uniyersity Museum. 



The specimen from Misaki was obtained from the Asakusa Aquari- 

 um in Tokio through the courtesy of Dr. Kishinouye. 



The species is extremely close to Ilolacantkus septentrumali^, 1)ut 

 differs in the color and direction of its dark stripes. 



{nmhi, a Japanese feudal waif, a retainer whose feudal lord is dead 

 or degraded; an allusion to the habitat of the species distant from the 

 Tropics, the original home of Ilolacanthus.) 



i8. HOLACANTHUS TIBICEN Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Holacanihns iihiceu Cuvieh and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 1831, 

 p. 173 (locality unknown; specimen in the Leyden Museum). — GtJNTHER, 

 Cat. Fish., II, 1861, p. 46 (copied).— Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Cha-t., 1877-78, 

 pi. vni, fig. 4; Celebes, Flores, Ternate, Amboina, Ceram, Solor. 



Ho/acanthus leucopleura Bleeker, Solor, 1853, ]). 79; Solor. — GUntiier, Cat. 

 Fish., II, 1861, p. 46; Ambohia. 



