428 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.42. 



SCORP.ffi;NA FIMBRIATA Doderlein. 



Tokyo market. 



One specimen has 8 dorsal rays, 'not the usual 9 or 10. 



SCORPiENA ONARIA Jordan and Snyder. 



Shimizu ; young example seined near shore. 



SCORPiENA CIRRHOSA (Thimberg). 



Two specimens of this species from Kagoshima are like adults in 

 almost every detail except that the fins are longer and liigher. The 

 ventrals extend to the anal opening in one specimen, somewhat 

 beyond in the other. The pectorals extend a little beyond the base 

 of the tliird anal spine. The caudal, anal, and dorsal rays are slightly 

 longer than those of adults. These specimens agree in most respects 

 with the description of S. IcagosJiimana of Steindachner and Doder- 

 lein,^ which is probably the young S. cirrhosa. 



DENDROCHIRUS JORDANI (Regan). 



Specimens of this species, associated with Pterois lunulata were taken 

 w^ith a seine along the sandy shores near Sliimizu. 'They are beauti- 

 fully banded with pale brown, each band having a narrow, dusky 

 edge. There are 5 bands on the head, one near tip of snout, another 

 from edge of eye to mouth, a third extending downward below pupil, 

 a fourth crossing occiput and passing over middle of opercle, the last 

 extending from occiput to upper part of opercle. The first band of 

 body is broken above the shoulder, thus forming a saddle over the 

 nape and a short band behind the pectoral. Five other bands occur 

 on the body, the last being near the base of caudal. Dorsal, anal, 

 and caudal with small, dusky spots. Ventrals and pectorals black, 

 the latter with a few large, light spots on its upper edge. Maxillary 

 with a long flap which extends to edge of preopercle. Specimens 

 were from 36 to 90 millimeters long. 



PTEROIS LUNULATA Temminck and Schlegel. 



Alisaki and Shimizu markets. 



Small specimens seined near the beach at Shimizu have the pectoral 

 filaments extending far beyond the tip of the caudal, 



APISTUS EVOLANS Jordan and Starks. 



A specimen from Kagoshima almost exactly resembles the type of 

 this species in color. It has 63 scales in the lateral series. Another 

 from Nagasaki with a color pattern much like that of the type of 

 A. venenans has 65 scales in the lateral series. These specimens 

 appear to agree in all other respects with both A. evolans and A. 

 venenans. 



MINOUS ADAMSI Richardson. 



Kagoshima and Nagasaki markets. 



1 Fische Japans, vol. 3, 1884, p. 28; vol. 4, 1887, pi. 3. 



