1004 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvi. 



1. AGRAMMUS Gunther. 



Agrarmmis GihiTUER, Cat. Fisli, 18()0, II, p. 94 {a;/ra)nmiis = schltyeli). 



Head and ])od3^ compressed, rather elongate. Scales small, ctenoid. 

 Lateral line single. Bones of head not armed. Edge of preopercle 

 entire. Dorsal continuous, elongate, with 17 or IS spines and 21 or 

 22 soft rays; a shallow notch between spinous and rayed portions. 

 Ventral with 1 spim^ and 5 soft ra3's. Teeth small, on jaws and vomer, 

 the outer row of teeth on jaws enlarged; palatines toothless. A flap 

 above orbit and one at nape. Branchiostegals 6. 



Japanese fishes, differing from HexagrammoH mainly in the undi- 

 vided lateral line. 



(«, without; ypaiAt-aj, line.) 



I. AGRAMMUS AGRAMMUS (Schlegel). 

 KUJIME. 



Lahrax agrammus ^cniJEGv.1,, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1843/' p. 56; Nagasaki. 

 Agrammus a gran un us Jordan and Snyder, Check List., 1801, p. 101; Yokohama. 

 Agrdmvms schlegeli GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish, II, 1860, p. 94; Japan. — Steindachner 



and DoDERLEiN, Fische Japans, IV, 1887, p. 266; Tokyo. ^Ishikawa, Prel. 



Cat., 1897, p. 51; Tokyo. 



Head dt in length without caudal ;. depth 3^. Dorsal XVII or 

 XVIII, 21 or 22; anal lit. Scales 80. Eye 5 in head; maxillary 3J; 

 interorbital 6. 



Maxillary reaching just past front of eye. Outer row of teeth 

 enlarged in both jaws; vomer with rather coarse teeth; palatine tooth- 

 less. A short fringed flap over eye and a shorter similar one at nape. 



Pectoral scarcely reaching to tips of ventrals; its posterior edge is 

 broadly rounded; the seventh to tenth rays from the top the longest, 

 IyV in head. Ventrals reaching two-thirds the distance from their 

 base to front of anal. Notch in dorsal not deep; the flfth spine 2 

 in head; the last spine 1^; the fourth soft ray equal in length to the 

 fifth spine; the spines or rays not produced ])eyond the membrane. 

 Tips of anal ravs free; the length of the fourth ray equal to the seven- 

 teenth ray, 2| in head. Caudal truncate or very slightly rounded. 



Scales strongly ctenoid on l)ody and top of head, slightly rough on 

 side of head behind eye, cycloid on cheek, opercle, breast, and in front 

 of pectoral. Snout, maxillary, mandible, suborbitals, including staj'^, 

 interopercle and branchiostegal region naked. There are 50 scales in 

 an oblique series running upward and forward from front of anal to 

 dorsal, IS of these between lateral line and dorsal. Small scales on 

 extreme base of spinous dorsal between spines, and on basal third of 

 soft dorsal; basal third or fourth of pectoral and over half of caudal 

 with scales; anal entirelv naked. 



a The fourth decade of the Fauna Japonica, Poissons, was pubUshed in 1843. 



