N(..i306. JAPANESE BERYCOID FISHES— J<)IU>AX AM) FOWLER. 15 



This beautifully colored fish is occasionally taken on rocky shores 

 in the Kuro Shiwo, of southern Japan. Our six-ciniens are frOm 

 Wakanoura, where it is common in the open water. 



(ppinosissiinus, most spiny.) 



8. HOLOCENTRUS ALBORUBER Lacepede. 



/ Sciit'iia rubra Forskal, Descr. Anim., 1775, \>. 48; Red Sea. 



/ Ptrca rubra Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 90 (after Forskal). 



f Holocentrus ruber HvvPFA.h, Atl., 1828, p. 83, pi. xxii, fig. 1; Red Sea. 



Holocentrum rubrum Gunther, Cat. Fish., I, 1859, p. 35 (in part?); Anil)oina, 



Japan, Louisiades, Philiiipines, China, India, Red Sea. — Bleekeh, Atl. lelith. 



IX, pi. Ill, fig. 4. 

 {Holocentrum rubrum Day, Fishes India, pi. xu, fig. 4, is apparently some other 



tlsh.) 

 Holocentrum rubrum Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 58; Miyakoshinia. 

 Holocentrum alboruhrum Lacepede, Hist. Poiss., IV, 1803, p. 372; China Seas, 



from a Japanese print. — Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 223; Canton. 

 f Perca jjraslin L.\cepede, Hist. Poiss., IV, 1803, p. 418; New Britain. 

 f Holocentrum orientaleCi-viFAi and Valenciennes, Hi.st. Poiss., Ill, 1829, p. 197; 



VII, p. 497; Red Sea, Pondicherry. 

 f Holocentrum marginatum Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Poiss., Ill, 1829, p. 



216; India. 



Head, 2|; depth, 2|; D., XI, 13; A., IV, 10; P., I, 13; V., I, 7. 

 Lateral line 3-36-7. Body elongate, compressed, and covered with 

 rather large ctenoid scales. Head moderate, the upper profile strongly 

 convex over the eyes; eye large, 2| in the head and impinging upon 

 the upper profile; snout pointed, a little over half the eye; mouth 

 terminal, inclined, the lower jaw slightly projects, and the maxillary 

 does not reach the middle of the eye; teeth minute and in ])ands in the 

 jaws; no.strils directly in front of the eye and the posterior very much 

 the larger; cheeks with 4 rows of scales; interorbital space slightly con- 

 cave; opercles with two strong spines; the preoperciUum with a single 

 strong spine below, and the preorbital spine short; head more or less 

 striate, and with the edges of the bones more or less denticulate; gill- 

 opening large; gill-rakers 6-10, slender, pointed, rather poorly devel- 

 oped. Dorsal about over the pectorals, the spinous fin rather high, 

 highest in the middle and in front; soft dorsal about over the spinous 

 anal, the anterior rays the highest, ])ut not as high as the anterior rays 

 of the soft anal, which are also the highest of that fin; third anal spine 

 strong, long, and at least equal to the highest anal ray; pectorals 

 shorter than the ventrals, about If in the head; ventrals l)ehind the 

 pectorals; the spine a little more than two-thirds the length of the fin, 

 and its tip not reaching the vent; caudal forked, the lobes produced; 

 rudimentary caudal rays as 4 graduated spines aliove and below. Lat- 

 eral line nearly concurrent with the back to the base of the caudal; 

 caudal peduncle compressed, about li in the eye. 



Color in alcohol brown, dark and deep above, the sides with about 



