NO. 1900. JAP.iyfESE SHORE Flf^HEfi— SNYDER. 403 



Family ENGRAULID/E. 



ENGRAULIS JAPONICUS Temminck and Schlegel. 



Otarii, Misaki, and Hakodate markets; Otaru, with the seme. 

 Family SALMONID^. 



PLECOGLOSSUS ALTIVELIS Temminck and Schlegel 



Tokyo and Tsurga markets. 



Family SALANGID^. 



SALANX MICRODON Bleeker. 



Same; taken in small seine. 



Family AKGENTINID.E. 



OSMERUS DENTEX Steindachner. 



Tomakomai, seine; Hakodate and Mororan markets. 



MESOPUS OLIDUS (Pallas). 



Mori and Tomakomai, with the seine; Hakodate market. 



There appears to be no chfference between tiiis species and M. 

 japonicus. The ventrals show some slight variation in position. 

 Some specimens have been found with 9 dorsal and 12 or 13 anal 

 rays, and also with 10 dorsal and 13 to 15 anal rays. The dorsal 

 rays number from 9 to 13, the anal 12 to 15. 



Family SYNODONTID/E. 



SAURIDA ARGYROPHANES (Richardson). 



Tokyo market; Shimizu and Kagoshima, where specimens were 

 seined near shore. 



SYNODUS JAPONICUS (Houttuyn). 



Misaki market. 



TRACmNOCEPHALUS MYOPS (Forster). 



Otaru, Tokyo, and ^lisaki markets; seined near shore at Shimizu 

 and Kagoshima. 



Family SU.URID.E. 



PARASILURUS ASOTUS (Linnaeus). 



Tokyo market; Takamatsu R., Akune. 



LIOBAGRUS REINI Hilgendort. 



Yaniaguclii. 



PLOTOSUS ANGUILLARIS Lac6p6de. 



Misaki, Kagosliima, and Tanegashima pools. 



IndiAniduals about 350 millimeters were usually abundant in the 

 more sliallow, sandy pools. In life they were brownish black, 

 lighter and tinted with golden below; yellow lateral stripes; fins 

 tinged ^vdth golden brown. 



