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SEMICOSSYPHtrS RETICULATUS (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



One young specimen was found in the Tokyo market. 



DUYMjERIA FLAGELLIFERA (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Tokyo and Nagasaki markets. 



Young examples have the head markedly larger than adults, an 

 example 120 millimeters long having the head contained but 2.5 

 times in the length to base of caudal. 



PSEUDOLABRUS JAPONICUS (Houttuyn). 



Tokyo, Misaki, Shimizu, Tsuruga, and Nagasaki markets. 



PSEUDOLABRUS GRACILIS (Steindachner). 



Shimizu market. A specimen about 90 millimeters long has 6 

 converging, obHque, blackish lines on the caudal peduncle. Another 

 example has a small, sharply outlined, black spot on membrane of 

 dorsal fin between first and second dorsal spines. 



STETHOJULIS STRIGIVENTER (Bennett). 



One specimen from a pool at Tanegasliima. 



Color in life oHve above, silvery below, bluish on breast and abdo- 

 men, tinged with purple on lower part of head; a pearly blue line 

 below eye, narrowly bordered with brown; lower half of body with 

 alternating stripes of silver and oHve; a small brownish black spot 

 on caudle peduncle; dorsal pale orange, narrowly edged with pearly 

 white, a dark spot on posterior part bordered by a ring of transparent 

 membrane; middle of caudal suffused with orange, the outer rays 

 tinted with blue; anal like dorsal; pectorals pinkish; ventrals blu- 

 ish. Specimens examined (mostly from Okinawa) appear to have 

 no posterior canine. 



STETHOJULIS KALOSOMA (Bleeker). 



Stethojulis terina Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, 1902, p. 631. 

 Stethojulis zatima Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, 1905, p. 788. 



Some small fishes, 30 to 40 millimeters long, from the rock pools 

 at JMisaki are identified as the young of the above species. The 

 smaller ones have a distinct spot at the base of the caudal just above 

 the lateral line, and an ocellus on the soft dorsal. There is a dusky 

 stripe from snout to caudal below which are several rows of dark 

 spots, one on each scale, and a black dot on each side of the tip of 

 the snout. 



These specimens are in all respects like a cotype of S. zatima 

 Jordan and Seale, and they agree with the description of the species. 

 The figure of S. zatima is probably incorrect in that it illustrates 

 1 anal and 7 dorsal spines when there are 2 and 9 respectively. 



STETHOJULIS AXILLARIS (Quoy and Gaimard). 



Three specimens were collected from the pools at Tanegashima. 



STETHOJULIS PHEKADOPLEURA Bleeker. 



Tanegashima pools; 4 examples. 



