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Family GERRID^. 



XyST.S:MA ERYTHROURUM (Bloch). 



Tanegashima pools. 



Family SCIAENID^. 



SCIiENA MlTSUKURn (Jordan and Snyder). 



Tokyo market. 



SCUENA SCHLEGELI (Houthiyn). 



Kagoshima market- 

 Family OPLEGNATHID^. 



OPLEGNATHUS FASCIATUS (Temminck and Schlegel). 



Hakodate and Tokyo markets; Tanegashima pools. 

 Family HISTIOPTERID^. 



EVISTIAS ACUTIROSTRIS (Temminck and Schlegel). 



Tokyo market. 



mSTIOPTERUS TYPUS Temminck and Schlegel. 



One specimen seen in the Tokyo Market, where it is said to be rare. 

 Family PRIACANTHID^. 



PRIACANTHUS JAPONICUS Temminck and Schlegel. 



Tokyo and Misaki markets. 



PRIACANTHUS HAMRUR (Forskal). 



Misaki. In life, brilliant red with a bright metallic sheen; the fins 

 darker, especially toward the tips. The bright color fades after 

 death, dark bars then appearing on the back. In life only the 

 merest trace of the bars is apparent. 



Family MULLID^. 



TTPENEOIDES TRAGULA Richardson. 



Kagoshima market; Tanegashima pools. 



Color in life : Body with a reddish brown lateral stripe, above which 

 it is light greenish with a brassy tinge, the scales variegated with 

 reddish brown; below, whitish, tinged with yellowish and greenish, 

 variegated with spots of brown and light cherry red; under parts 

 white; barbels orange; dorsals yellowish, clouded with brown and 

 cherry red; spinous dorsal with an orange spot; caudal lemon yellow, 

 barred with red, becoming darker below; deep brown on lower lobe; 

 ventrals and anal lemon yellow, indistinctly clouded with red; 

 pectorals barred with yellow and red. 



UPENEOIDES SULPHUREUS (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Kagoshima market. 



UPENEOroES BENSASI (Temminck and Schlegel) 



Misaki, Shimizu, and Kagoshima markets. 



