NO. 1909. JAPANESE SHORE FISHES— SNYDER. 407 



Family MUEiENID^E. 



GYMNOTHORAX KIDAKO (Temmlnck and Schlegel). 



Misaki Market; Tanegashima pools, 



GYMNOTHORAX RETICULARIS Bloch. 



Kagosluma market. 



GYMNOTHORAX LAYSANUS (Steindachner). 



One specimen from a tide pool at Tanegashima belongs without 

 doubt to this species. 



GYMNOTHORAX ODIOSUS Snyder. 



Plate 51, fig. 2. 



Gymnothorax odiosus Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, 1903, p. 94. 



A rather characterless species, with a heavy body, a short tail, and 

 a high dorsal. 



One specimen from Kagosliima. 



AEMASIA LICHENOSA Jordan and Snyder. 



An example from the pools at Misaki, measuring 380 millimeters, 

 agrees with specimens previously described except for a slight dif- 

 ference in the length of the head, wliich is contained 2,7 times in the 

 trunk, 7.5 in the total length. The teeth are markedly short and 

 blunt in this specimen, A smaller individual was secured in the same 

 locality. 



Family POECILIID/E. 



ORYZIAS LATIPES (Temmlnck and Schlegel). 



Shiogama; Yamaguchi; Akune; Nanao; Dogo Island; in small 

 streams and ditches. 



Family PEGASID.E. 



PEGASUS UMITENGU (Jordan and Snyder). 



One small example dipped from surface near Shimizu. 

 Family SYNGNATHID.E. 



SYNGNATHUS SCHLEGELI Kaup, 



Mori; Same; Misaki; taken near shore with a small seine. 



SYNGNATHUS YOSHI (Snyder). 



Plate 51, fig. 3. 

 Siphostoma yoshi Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 36, 1909, p. 597. 



CORYTHROICHTHYS TANAKiE Jordan and Starks. 



Tanegashima; many females and a few males were taken in the 

 pools. A woll-developed anal fin is present. The males have larger 

 head tentacles than the females, whde there are rows of tentacles 

 present along the lateral ridges of the body in both sexes. 



