NO. 1319. S03IE JAPANESE FISHES— JORDAN AND STARKS 543 



and body. Its second ray is divided, the under ray the longer, reaching 

 to within a diameter of the eye of the tip of the third or longest ray. 

 The ventrals reach to the base of the lower caudal rays. Their base 

 is midway between their tips and the edge of the opercle; three or 

 four of its outer rays grow gradually shorter; the outer one is twice 

 the diameter of the eye in length. 



Color in spirits light brown on back, abruptly silvery on head and 

 body below the level of middle of eye. The maxillary is dusky and 

 the suborbital and opercular regions are du.sky with points of l)rown 

 over the silver. The pectoral is jet black, changing to white on the 

 lower rays. The ventrals are colored like the pectoral and with lighter 

 inner rays. The dorsal is dusky toward the ends of the raj^s. The 

 posterior fourth of the anal is abruptly black. The caudal has two 

 dusky spots, which appear in Dr. Steindachuer's plate of this species 

 as the interspaces between two white spots. The caudal peduncle is 

 dusky above. 



This description is taken from a specimen 10 cm. in length from 

 Wakanoura. 



A small specimen, 35 mm. in length, differs in having the pectoral 

 reaching only to below the third dorsal ray. At the symphysis is a 

 wide, flat, triangular barbel, which is ver}^ slightly tritid at its lower 

 margin. 



This species is apparently identical with Exocoatus hirundo described 

 and figured from Hongkong. It is not yet recorded from elsewhere. 



{hirundo^ swallow.) 



SUMMARY. 



Suborder SYNENTOGNATHI. 



Family I. Belonid^. 



1. Ti/losurus Cocco. 



1. fichmnatorhynchus (Bleeker); Nagasaki, Wakanoura. 



2. giganteus (Sclilegel); Nagasaki, Wakanoura. 



3. coroinandelicus (Van Hasselt); Tsuruga, Yokohama. 



4. anaxtouii'Ud (Cuvier and Valenciennes); Yokohama, Tokyo, Matsushima Bay, 



Hakodate. 



Family II. HEMiu.vMPniDji:. 

 2. Hgporhamphus Gill. 



5. mjori (Sclilegel); Aomori, ]\hitsushima, Tokyo, Misaki, Wakanoura, Kobe, 



Hakata, Nagasaki. 



6. kurumeux Jordan and Starks; Chikugo River at Kurume. 



7. japonicus (Brevoort). 



