NO. 1305. THE uiGONIDJ-: OF .1 . 1 /'. I X— JORDAN AND STARKK 577 



1. TILESINA Schmidt. 

 VV/mri// Schmidt, Fanne iikt dn Japon., ctr., lito:!, )>. US {(jiht,(n<(t)\ name milv. 



This g-eiius is distinguished from uU other AijonUhv by the \ery h)n<r 

 spinous dorsal of 18 or 19 spines, and by the very long- anal of 28 to 

 26 ra3's. Japan 8ea. 



(Named for Wiih(din 'rheo])hihis Tilesius). 



I. TILESINA GIBBOSA Schmidt. 

 Tile»i)ui (jU)husa Schmidt, Fauna dv la iner <lu Japon., etc., li>0:^), ]>. Hi; Jajtan Sea. 



This species is mentioned without description in Dr. Schmidt's paper 

 on the fauna of the seas of Japan and Ochotsk. In a hotter, dated in 

 St. Petersburg. De('eml)ei- 30, 1902, Dr. Schmidt gives these chai'ac- 

 ters, "D. XVIII or XIX, T or 8; A. 28 to 20; P. 14 or 15: lateral 

 plates 49 to 50. Peter the Great Bay (Vladivostok); Broughton Ba}^ 

 (Korea)." 



igihlxMKS, gibbous. ) 



2. PERCIS Scopoli. 



Perc'fS ScoPOLi, Int. Hist. Nat., 1777, ji. 454 {japonirns). 



////5/>orc/>/irf/?<.s SwAiNSON, Nat. Hi.«t. Fi.shes, etc., II, 1839, ]>. 272 {siijierciliosns). 



Bod}' moderately elongate, compressed throughout; back elevated 

 behind nape; 2 rows of strong, curved spines along whole length of 

 each side (spines of the other series smaller); first dorsal tin beginning 

 behind nape; dorsals far apart; anal tin long. Vent far l)ack from 

 base of ventrals. Head narrow anteriorly. al)ruptly broader behind; 

 mouth terminal; median rostral plate none; nasals united in front of 

 maxilhiiy pedicles. Interorbital space ))road, the supraocular ridges 

 veiy prominent, with large, flat, triangular supraocular spine or shelf; 

 no occipital spines. Teeth on jaws and vonun*. non(> on palatines. 

 Gill membranes united, free from isthnuis. North Pacific. 



(TTf/j/ciV, a synonym of TTffjKi/, perch.) 



2. PERCIS JAPONICA (Pallas). 



CotiuH japoniciii^ Pai.i.as, Spicilegia Zoologia, VII, 1772. p. ."SO, jd. v, figs. 1-.'!. tlry 



specinieii; Kuril l.-jjands (coll. G. W. Stcllcr). — Tiucsiis, Kniscnstern's Kcise 



uui die Welt, IV, 1813, pi. i.x.wvii. 

 Ayomti^ (■nrilictis TwAinivs, Mem. Acad. St. I'eteisl)., 1\', ISll, \>. 4\(y. alter l*alla,«i 



and Stelier. 

 Agonns stegojtlilhahuns Tilk.sus, Memoirs Soc. Naturalists, Mo.sco\v, JI, 1809, 



p. 219; (iulf of Patience, Sakhalin Island; Mem. .\cad. St. Petersh.. IV, 



1811, p. 427, ])]. MI. — GtTNTHEK, Cat., II, 1860, p. 214. 

 Aspidopliurn.'^ Imiza Lacepkde, Hist. Nat. des Poiss., Hi, 1802, p. 224; alter Pallas. 

 Asidopliorus Kuj^erciliosus Cuviek and V.\lencienxes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1\', 1829, 



J). 215; Kuril Islands, alter Pallas and Tilesius. 

 Fercis japoniciis Scopoli, Inst. Hist. Nat., 1777, ]>. 454. — ,Iokd.\n and Kvkkmann, 



Fish. North and Middle Amer., II, 1898, \\ 2034; Ochotsk Sea.— Scmmiivi, 



Fauna .Mer. Japon., 1903, p. l(j; Vladivostok. 



