NO. 1900. JAPANESE'SHOREFISHES— SNYDER. 419 



ABUDEFDUF SAXATELIS (Linnaeus). 



Misaki and Tanegashima pools. None but small specimens were 

 seen. 



ABUDEFDUF BENGALENSIS (Bloch). 



Tanegashima pools. The two specimens collected agree with the 

 figure published by Day.' 



ABUDEFDUF SEXFASCIATUS (Lacfepfede). 



Tanegashima pools. One small individual. 



ABUDEFDUF CLARK! Snyder. 



Plate 53, fig. 2. 

 Abudcfduf clarki Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 40, 1912, p. 534. 



Pools at Misaki. 



ABUDEFDUF ZONATUS (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Tanegashima pools; 4 specimens, the largest measuring 35 milli- 

 meters. 



ABUDEFDUF ANTJERIUS (Kuhl and Van Hasset). 



Tanegashima pools; 3 specimens. 



This is a very brightly colored species, the brilliant hues fading 

 rapidly after death. The body is yellowish olive, darker above, with 

 a purplish tinge on region between anal and spinous dorsal, becom- 

 ing orange on caudal peduncle and tail, lighter and grayish in region 

 covered by pectoral, and on belly; chin, throat, and breast bluish 

 gray; pores of lateral line yellow; eye very dark, with a conspicuous 

 dash of white on the iris below pupil; a purple stripe bordered by 

 dusk}' extending from eye to dorsal and then along base of fin and 

 finally joining an ocellus on posterior part of spinous dorsal; base of 

 soft dorsal ^vith a purple edged ocellus on its posterior end; dorsals 

 purplish brown above which is a narrow orange stripe, then one of 

 purple which in turn is followed by an orange edge; anal yellowish 

 olive narrowly edged with blue; pectorals orange; ventrals suffused 

 with orange, the spine bluish. 



ABUDEFDUF GLAUCUS (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



One young individual from a pool at Misaki, and numerous speci- 

 mens from the pools at Tanegashima measuring from 20 to 65 milli- 

 meters in length. 



ABUDEFDUF AMABILIS (De Vis). 



One specimen from a pool at Tanegashima. 

 Family LABRID^. 



CHOERODON AZURIO (Jordan and Snyder). 



Misaki, Shimizu, and Kagoshima markets. 



Occasionally small (75 to 100 millimeters long) specimens may be 

 found without posterior canine teeth. Some examples have 28 scales 

 in the lateral hne. 



> Fishes India, pi. 83, fig. 3. 



