NO. 130(;. JAPANESE BERVCOW FISHES^JORDAN AND FOWLER. 19 



beyond the first dorsal rays and about equal to the maxillary; ven- 

 trals short, beginning in front of the dorsal and extending for about 

 four-ninths the distance ])etween their own })ases and the origin of the 

 anal; caudal deeply forked and the lobes pointed. Lateral lino oblique 

 to the caudal peduncle, where it runs straight to the base of the 

 caudal. Caudal i)eduiu'le compressed and ec^ual to the eye. 



Color in alcohol brown, above and on the back darker and richer; 

 on the sides series of longitudinal stripes of silvery; base of the pec- 

 toral black, together with the caudal lol)es and the upper portion of 

 the anterior soft dorsal rays; peritoneum l)lack. 



Length 8i inches. Here described from examples from Misaki. 



Our numerous specimens were taken at Misaki on long lines ))y 

 Kumakichi Aoki, the fisherman collector of the marine laboratory of 

 the Imperial University of Tokyo. The species is sufficiently distinct 

 from Pohjniixla lowel of the Atlantic, having smaller scales and larger 

 fins. It is known to fishermen as G'lnine or Silver Eye. 



Family V. MONOCENTRID^E. 



PINE-CONE FISHES. 



The characters of the family are those of the single genus, Monocen- 

 trlx. Two species are known, Japanese and Australian. The single 

 geiuis is notably unlike any other kind of fish whatever, but it seems 

 to be nearest the Bcrvcoids. 



8. MONOCENTRIS Schneider. 



3/o»orr»/)-/.s" SciiXEinEK, Syst. Ichth., hSOl, p. 100 {cariiiatii.'^). 

 Lepisacanthus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1802, p. 321 (japonicus). 



Body short, deep, compressed, covered with very large bony scales, 

 joined to form a coat of mail. Snout blunt, rounded, protruding 

 beyond the mouth; mouth moderate, villiform; teeth on jaws and 

 palatines, none on vomer; eye moderate; branchiostegals 8; opercular 

 bones entire; suborbitals with radiating ridges. Dorsal spines iso- 

 lated; soft dorsal moderate; ventrals reduced to a strong spine and 3 

 soft rays. Caudal not forked. According to Boulenger, the skeleton 

 of Moriocentrls show some affinity to that of the Bii'ycldie^ l)ut differs 

 considerably in "the total absence of ribs on any of the vertebny ante- 

 rior to the seventh." 



{/Aovos, one; Ktvrpnv^ spine.) 



II. MONOCENTRIS JAPONICUS (Houttuyn). 



MATSUKASA UWO (PINK-CX)NE FISH); MATSUKASAGO (PINE SCULPIN) ; 

 TAIMUKO-NO-GENPACHI« (DICK, THE BRIDECROOM FISH). 



Gasterosteusjapomcus Houttuyn, Act. Soc. Harl., XX, 1782, pi. ii, p. 329, Nagasaki. 

 Sciicna japonica {cataphnicta) Thunberg, Nor. Act. Sci. Suec, XI, 1790, p. 102, 

 pi. Ill; Nagasaki. 



« Genpachi, a boy's name corresponding to Tom or Dick. 



