|o.i830. THE BAND FISHES OF JAPAN— JORDAN AND FOWLER. 701 



Scales small, about 150 in a longitudinal series; D. 80, A. 76; no black dorsal spot, 

 go far as known; preopercle with about 5 blunt spines; dorsal and anal tins 



margined with blackish krusewiemi, 2. 



M. Scales minute, about 300 in a longitudinal series. Preopercle with about 7 blunt 

 ! spines. D. 104; A. 105; a black spot in front of dorsal; dorsal not conspicu- 

 ously margined with blackish; anal brown-edged limbcUa, 3. 



2. ACANTHOCEPOLA KRUSENSTERNI (Schlegel). 



SAKENOUWO (WIXE-FISH); AKATACHIUWO (RP^D BLENNY) ; 

 RINGUROTAIMATSU. 



Ccpola kmsenMerni Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1845,« p. 130 (not figure); 

 Nagasaki.— Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., Ichth. Japan, XXV (1854), p. 39; 

 Natursk. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., VI, 1854; p. 411; Verb. Bat. Gen., XXVI, 

 Japan, 1854, p. 108; Act. Soc. Sc. Indo. Neerl., Ill, Japan, 1859, pi. ii, fig. 

 l._GuNTHER, Cat. Fish., Ill, 1861, p. 488, Japan.— Steixdachner and 

 Doderlein, Fische Japans, IV, 1887, p. 32; Tokyo.— Ishikawa, Prel. Cat, 

 1897, p. 32 ; Wakayama, Nagasaki. 



Cepola hungta Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 277; Canton. 



Head llf in length; depth 13|; D. 80; A. 76; P. 1-17; V. 1-5; scales 

 164. 28 in a vertical .series in front. Body very elongate, compressed, 

 and covered with cycloid scales, which are very small on the anterior 

 part of the body. Head longer than deep, compressed ; eye larger than 

 the snout, in the front of the head above, H in the head and 1^ in the 

 maxillary; snout very bluntly rounded, with the lower jaw produced; 

 mouth verv oblique, superior, and the jaws each with a single series 

 of strong teeth; lips moderately fleshy; maxillary extending to below 

 the middle of the eye; interorbital space flattened, li in the eye. Gill- 

 opening large; the gill-rakers numerous, long, and slender; lower 

 margin of the preoperculum armed with five blunt and rather broad 

 spines. Dorsal, caudal, and anal confluent, the origin of the former a 

 little in advance of the posterior margin of the gill-opening; dorsal 

 low, more or less equal in height; caudal produced into a filamentous 

 point; the origin of the anal at the tips of the pectorals, and, like the 

 dorsal, the fin low; pectorals in the lower half of the body ])ehind the 

 gill-opening and about U in the head; ventrals below, a trifle behmd 

 pectorals and nearly equal in length, but produced into a point. 



Color in spirits, almost uniform pale brown, the anal and caudal 

 narrowly margined with blackish, with some .spots a little deeper in 

 color; no black spot on dorsal. In life bright cherry-red, with spot- 

 of rather deeper shade. 



' «Acc^n^to Mr. Edgar R. Waite (in lit.), the dates of publication of the differ 

 ent parts of the volume on Fishes of the Fauna Japonica are as follows: 



Decade I, pp. 1-20, 1842. 



Decades II-IV, pp. 21-72, 1843. 



Decades V-VI, pp. 73-112, 1844. 



Decades VIl-IX, pp. 173-269, 1845. 



Decades X-XIV, pp. 173-269, 1846. 



Decade XV, pp. 270-324, 1850. 



