700 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



I. CEPOLA Linnaeus. 

 Cepola LiNN^.us, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1, 1769, p. 445 (tseiiin). ^|| 



This genus includes the Cejpolidse which have the preopercle 

 unarmed; dorsal rays rather distinct!}' articulate, and in typical species 

 also distinctly branched. 



{cepola, a name unexplained, probably of Italian origin.) 



I. CEPOLA SCHLEGELI Bleeker. 

 AKADASHI (RED WEASEL). 



Cepola hruMiisterni Schlegel, Fauna Japoniea, Poiss., 1845, pi. lxxi. lig. 1; Naga-r 

 saki, not description. — Nystrom, Svensk, Ak. Handl., 1887, ]>. 39; Nagas^aki. 



Cepola i^cMegeli 'QiuEEK^R, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., 1854, Japan, p. 412; Kaminoseki; 

 Verb. Bat. Gen., XXVI, 1854, Japan, p. 110; Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. NeerL, VI, 1 

 1859, p. 256.— GtTNTHER, Cat. Fish., Ill, 1861, p. 488.— Steindachner and Do- 

 DERLEiN, Fische Japans, IV, 1887, p. 12; Tokyo, Kochi, Tango.— Ishikawa, ! 

 Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 32; Bingo. — Jordan and Snyder, Check List, Fish, Japan, 

 1901, p. 111. 



Head 10 in length; depth 12; D. more than 70; A. more than 60; 

 P. 18; V. 1-5; scales more than 300; eye 3 in head; width of head If in 

 height. Pectoral If to If in head. Body elongate, strongly com- 

 pressed. Head obtusely convex, longer than high; snout half the 

 length of the eye, profile convex; maxillary reaching below posterior 

 part of eye, oblique; teeth in jaws uniserial, curved and conic; preo-' 

 percle without spines; opercle a little over 3 in head. Scales very 

 small, present on opercles. Lateral line concurrent with ])ack. Dor- 

 sal, anal, and caudal continuous; pectoral rounded. 



Color, body and fins rosy; the membrane between premaxillary and 

 maxillary with a black spot. 



Length 212 mm. Kaminoseki, in the sea. (Bleeker.) In young 

 examples, the spines on the lower margin of the preoperculum are 

 sharp and pointed, and the body is nnich shorter and deeper in com- 

 parison with the length of the head. In most all of the specimens the 

 dark spot hidden between the maxillary and intermaxillary is evident. 



No specimens were taken by us, although the species is said to bei 

 not rare in southern Japan. Our description is condensed from that 

 of Dr. Bleeker, made from a specimen fi"om Kaminoseki on the inland 

 sea. 



2. ACANTHOCEPOLA Bleeker. 



Acanihocepola Bleeker, Versl. Ak. Anisterd., VIII, 1874, p. 369 {krusensterni). 



This genus mcludes those CepoUdpe. in which the preopercle is armed 

 with 4 to 8 blunt spines. The dorsal rays are simple and indistinctly 

 articulate. Color bright red. 



{ocKavBix, spine; cepola.) 



