No.l3(i5. THE AGONID.E OF JAPAN— JORDAN AND STARKfi. 595 



This species from the coast of northern China is known only from 

 Guichenot's description, translated by Jordan and Evermann. A 

 single specimen, lOi inches long. China. (Guichenot.) Guichenot's 

 figure gives one more ray in anterior dorsal than the description, and 

 gives the caudal tin as strongly concave. 



{sturlo sturgeon; eiSos, likeness.) 



15. PODOTHECUS HAMLINI Jordan and Gilbert. 



Podothecus hamUni .Jordan and (jilbeut, Rei)t. Fur Seal Invest., 1896, III, 1898, 

 p. 472; Shana Bay, Iturup Island, Kuril group (type 5662, L. S. Jr. I'niv. 

 Mus., Coll. Albatross). — Jordan and Evermann, Fish. North and Middle 

 Amer., II, 1898, p. 2056; Iturup Island. 



This species is fully described bj^ Jordan and Evermann. A sj)eci- 

 men in the Museum of Hakodate from Kayabe seems to belong to it. 

 The types are two specimens from the U. S. Fish Commissioiv steamer 

 Albatross station 3653, off Shana Village, Iturup Island, in is fathoms. 



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Fig. 10. — Podothecus hamlini. 



A young individual from Albatross station 3646, off Robben Island, 

 18 fathoms, seems to belong to the same species, but has the snout 

 less produced and the dor>sal VIII, 6; anal 8. Dr. Schmidt regards 

 the species as the young of I*, gilherti. This is possibly the case. 



(Named for Charles Sumner Hamlin, late Assistant Secretary of the 

 Treasury, under whose auspices the fur-seal investigations of 1896 

 and 1897 were carried on l)y the United States Fur Seal Commission.) 



16. PODOTHECUS GILBERTI (Collett). 



Agonus gilberti Collett, Proc. Zool. See. London, 1894, p. 670, pi. xlv; Kam- 

 chatka. (Coll. Henry Lund. Types, Mus. Christiania; cotype, 278.S, L. S. 

 Jr. Univ. Mus. ) 



Podothecus gilberti Jordan and Evermann, Fish. North and Middle Anier.. II, 

 1898, p. 2058, from one of CoUett's types from Petropavlovsk. 



This specimen, originally known from Kamchatka, is recorded from 

 off Cape Pestschnuzoff, Korea, b}' Peter Schmidt. 

 (Named for Charles Henry Gilbert.) 



