N0.1351. SCORPjENOID fishes of japan— JORDAN and STARKS. 103 



Other specimens were taken at Misaki, Wakanoura, and Hakodate. 



Type. — No. THTii, Ichthyolot^ieal colloctions, Leland Stanford l"ni- 

 versity Juidor Museum. Cotypes are No. 5090-1, LJ.S.N.M. 

 (Named for Albert Giinther.) 



7. SEBASTODES INERMIS ( Cuvler and Valenciennes). 

 KURO-SOI (BLACK ROCK-FISII). 



Sebastodeti inenniti CvwER and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, p. 346; 



Japan. — Gunthek, Cat., II, 1860, p. 97. — Hilgendokf, Sitzuugb. Bericht. 



Gesell. naturf. Freunde, Berlin, 1880, p. 172. — SxEiNDACHNERand Doderlein, 



Fische Japans, III, 1884, p. 205; Tokyo. — Jordan and Evermann, Fish. N. M. 



Jim., II, 1898, p. 1829 (after Steindachner). 

 Sehastes ventricosus Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1845, p. 48, pi. xx, figs. 1, 2; 



Nagasaki.^ — Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., XXVI, p. 80; Nagasaki. — Gunther, 



Cat. Fisb, II, 1860, p. 87.— Nystrom, Kong. ver. HandL, 1887, p. 20; Nagasaki. 

 Sehastodes ventricosus J ORDA's and Evermann, Fish. N. M. Am., II, 1898, p. 1829 



(copied). 

 Sebastodes fuscescens Jordan and 8nydek, Proc. IT. 8. Nat. Mas., 1900, pp. 745-756; 



Tsushima (not of Houttuyn). 



Head 2| in length; depth 2f . Dorsal XllI, 14; anal IH, 8. Pores 

 of lateral line 43; 14 scales in series, running upward and slightly 

 backward, between anal spines and lateral line, between last dorsal 

 spines and lateral line. 



Body deepest at first dorsal spines. Head pointed. Tip of lower 

 jaw strongly projecting and entering into upper profile. Mouth 

 moderate, maxillary nearly reaching vertical from posterior edge of 

 pupil; 2^ in head. Teeth in narrow bands, developed in a knol> at 

 tip of lower jaAv. Or})it much longer than snout, 3 in head. Inter- 

 orbital convex, rather narrow, two-thirds of diameter of orbit. 

 Ridges on head low and little developed, ending in small, sharp 

 spines lying close against the skin; nasal, preocular, supraocular, and 

 parietal spines present. Two spines on shoulder and 2 on opercle. 

 Preopercle spines all directed })ackward, Preorbital with 2 spines 

 directed downward and backward. Gill rakers long and slender, the 

 longest a little less than half orbit; 24 on anterior limb of arch. 



Pectoral 1^ in head, reaching to tips of long ventrals, nearly to 

 above front of anal. Ventrals long and slender, the spine reaching 

 little more than halfway to tip of first ray. Anal, when depressed, 

 leaching to, or nearly to, auxiliary caudal rays, the third s))ine a little 

 longer and weaker than second; the first half length of second. Dor- 

 sal spines moderate, the fourth about 2 in head; the last one-third 

 longer than the one preceding it, which scarcely reaches the middle 

 of last when fin is depressed. Soft dorsal rays as long or longer than 

 the spine. Peritoneum white. Color. l)rassy green, pale or dusky. 

 Maxillar}' usually with a strijie. 



Here described from specimens from Tokyo, 20 to 23 cm. in length. 



