194 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Girella leonina Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 32, p. 498, fig. 4, 



1907 (Wakanoura specimen) . 

 Melanichthys crenidens Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. N^erland. (Japan), vol. 



8, p. 76, 1860 (type locality: Japan.) 

 Girella punctata (part) Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 80, 



1901 (Nagasaki). 



Depth 2K to 2%; head 3K to 3K, width 1% to 1%. Snout 3 to 4}^ in 

 head; eye 3 to 4, greater than snout in young to 1% wdth age, greater 

 than interorbital in young to 1}^ with age; maxillary reaches % to 

 eye, % in eye in young, length 3 to 3% in head; teeth about 36 to 38 in 

 jaws, compressed, tricuspid, with smaller ones forming an inner band; 

 interorbital 3Ko to 3K, broadly convex; preopercle edge minutely 

 denticulate. Gill rakers 12 + 23, lanceolate, Iji in gill filaments, 

 which 1% in eye. 



Scales 64 to 66 along above lateral line to caudal base; 58 to 60 

 tubular scales in lateral line to caudal base; 16 scales abov^e, 21 below, 

 34 to 36 predorsal forward opposite front eye edge, 15 rows over cheek 

 to preopercle ridge and often 3 or 4 more on flange. Scales with 13 to 

 21 basal radiating striae; 33 to 51 apical denticles, with 4 to 11 trans- 

 verse series of basal elements. 



D. XIV or XV, 15, i or 16 i, last spine 2% to 2K in head, first ray 2 to 

 2Ko; A. Ill, 12, I or 13, i, third spine 2% to 2%, first ray l%o to 2; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2 to 2%; pectoral 1}^ to IK; ventral IK to 1%; 

 caudal 3}^ to S% in combined head and body to caudal base. 



Largely uniform umber, under surface to head, belly, and tail paler. 

 Iris brown to slate-gray. Hind edge of gill opening and narrow trans- 

 verse band along pectoral base blackish brown. Fins all brownish, 

 mostly little darker terminally. 



China, Japan. Distinguished chiefly by its general uniform color, 

 black edge to the gill opening and black bar across pectoral base. 



U.S.N.M. No. 22551. Awa, Japan. Japanese Government. Length, 210 mm. 

 U.S.N. M. No. 70730. Tanegashima Island. ^/feaYross collection 1906. Length, 



51 to 98 mm. Eight examples. As Girella leonina. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71009. Misaki, Sagami, Japan. ^/6a/ross collection 1906. Length, 



45 to 104 mm. Five examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71010. Akune, Satsuma, Japan. Albatross collection 1906. 



Length, 75 to 96 mm. Six examples. As Girella leonina. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71391. Misaki, Sagami, Japan. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 80 



to 95 mm. Two examples. As Girella leonina. 



GIRELLA ZONATA Gunther 



Girella zonata GiInther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 429, 1859 (type locality: 

 Australian seas?). — Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 2, 

 p. 42, 1873; Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 3, p. 350, 1879 (Port 

 Jackson). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, p. 408, 1881 

 (copied GtJNTHER). — McCuLLOCH, Fishes New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 62, 

 1927 (noted as not found in New South Wales since Castelnau's record). 



Depth 3 in total; head 4}^. Snout broad, obtuse; eye A% in head; 

 maxillary reaches eye; band of pluriserial, narrow, tricuspid teeth 



