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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvi. 



ZEN ITEA (Jordan and Fowler). 



In the review of the Chsetodontldse 'dnd related families of tishes 

 found in the waters of Japan by Messrs. Jordan and Fowler," a new 

 .species of Zeidx is described from Siiruga Bay, Japan, under the name 

 of Oyttopsis itea. This species ditfers from the type of Cyttopsls {rosea) 



Fig. 2.— Zen itea 



in having- the ventral rays I, 9, and in ha\'ino- the breast flat and broad, 

 imperfectly shielded, this is the type of a new genus, Zen Jordan, 

 the species standing as Zen itea. 



HENIOCHUS DIPHREUTES. 



In the same paper'' a Japanese lish from Wakanoura and Nagasaki 

 is described under the name of TIeniockus macrolepidotm. From this; 

 well-known East Indian species, the Japanese form differs in having 

 the posterior black band from soft dorsal to anal not extending for- 

 ward to cover the anterior part of the anal tin. It seems to be a 

 distinct species, which may receive the name of ILeniochm dipJircuiei^ 

 Jordan. The type is No. 7247, Ichthyological Collections, Stanford 

 l^niversity. The description of Ileniochus 'macrolepidotus, Jordan and 

 Fowler* applies to this species. The accounts given by Schlegel^ and 



«Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 1902, p. 519. 



&Idem, p. 542. 



<-■ Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 184(i, \>. 82, pi. xliv, fig. 1. 



