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Family APLODACTYLIDiE. 



GONnSTlUS ZONATUS Cuvler and Valenciennes. 



Misaki market. 



Family POLYNEMID^. 



POLYDACTYLUS AGONASI Jordan and McGregor. 



Kagoshima market. 



Family SILLAGINIDvE. 



SILLAGO JAPONICA Temminck and Schlegel. 



^lisaki, Tokyo, Shimizu, Kagoshima, and Tsuruga markets. 



SILLAGO PARVISQUAMIS Gill. 



Tokyo market. 



Family LATILID^. 



LAXaUS JAPONICUS (Houttuyn). 



There are at least 2 distinct species of Latilus in Japan. One may 

 be recognized by its large eye (3.4 in head), and by the presence of a 

 narrow, black stripe which occupies a sharp, median ridge extending 

 from the interorbital area to the base of the dorsal. This is L. ruber 

 Kishinouye.^ The other has a much smaller eye (4.1 in head), while 

 the region of the occiput and nape is immaculate. It is quite probable 

 that the latter is L. japonicus, the species described by Houttuyn,' 

 Cuvier and Valenciennes,^ and by Temminck and Schlegel. Each 

 describes the color, not mentioning a black nuchal stripe. Temminck 

 and Schlegel' s figure * portrays the small eye and immaculate nape. 

 Jordan and Snyder also refer to this species.^ 



Doctor Kishinouye of the Imperial University furnishes the follow- 

 ing description of the color: "Pinkish, with many transverse yellow 

 bands on the side; 2 or 3 wavy, 3^ellow lines near to and parallel with 

 the posterior margin of the caudal; region betwen the occiput and 

 origin of dorsal pale gray." 



The species appears to be rather rare. Two examples were secured, 

 one in the Tokyo market and the other at Shimizu. 



LATILUS RUBER Kishinouye. 



In a paper published in Japanese by Dr. K. Kishinouye® the 

 species distinguished by the black nuchal stripe and large eye is 

 described. The author furnishes the following translation : 



D. VIII, 15; A. 13; scales 7, 22; 67; vertebrae 24; head 4i in the total length; eye 3 in 

 length of head. 



The tip of pectoral reaches a vertical from the fourth ray of dorsal, while the tip of 

 the latter, when depressed reaches a little beyond the base of the caudal fin. The 



« Zoological Magazine, Tokyo, vol. 19, Feb., 1907. 



» Holl. Maats. Wet. Harlem, vol. 20, 1872, p. 3n. 



» L. argenlatus, Nat. des Poissons, vol. 5, p. 368, and vol. 9, p. 495. 



< Fauna Japonica, pi. 28, flg. 2. 



6 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, 1902, p. 489. 



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