NO. VM . SCORP.ENOID FISHES OF J A PA N—JORDA N A ND ST A RKS. 105 



Color silvery below, dusky on })ack. Dorsals, anal, and tips of 

 V(Mitruls dusky; pectoral colorless. 



This species is known to us from numerous specimens taken at 

 Tokyo, Wakanoura. Tsuruga, and Misaki. It is very close to Sehas- 

 todes inermis^ difl'ering- in the longer pectoral, more slender form, and 

 longer ventral spines. Here described from the type from Misaki. 



Ty^x'. — ^o. 736H, Ichthyological Collections, Leland Stanford -Junior 

 University Museum. Cotypes, No. 5090.5, U.S.N.M. 



(Tokyo, at the capital.) 



9. SEBASTODES JOYNERI (Giinther). 



TOKENOKO MEBARU (BAMBOO-SPROUT R()CK-FTSH).« 



Sehastes joyneri Gunther, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., I, 1878, p. 485; Japan; 



Challenger Report, Shore Fishes, 1880, p. 64, pi. xxix, fig. A. 

 Sehastodes joyneri Jordan and Evermann, Fish N. M. Am., II, 1898, p. 1829, after 



Doderlein. — Jordan and Snyder, Check List, 1901. 

 Sebastes inermis Hilgexdorf, S. B. Gesell. Naturf. Frennde, Berlin, 1880, p. 172, 



with plate. — Steindachner and Doderlein, Denkseh. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



1884, J). 206 (not of Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Head 3 to 3i; depth 2f ; D. XIH, 14 or 15; A. IH, 7; P. 16 (10-6); 

 lateral line 45 to -tO (pores); orbit 3; snout -li; interorl)ital width, flat, 

 unbroken by ridges, 4 in head. Mouth moderate, oblique; projecting 

 lower jaw with symphyseal knob. Teeth delicate, sharp, in narrow 

 bands, tip of mandible developed in a knob, which tits in a notch in 

 upper jaw and projects above maxillary teeth. Maxillary not quite 

 reaching middle of eye. Preorbital broad, with 2 strong spines 

 directed downward and backward. First (uppermost) spine of pre- 

 opercle a little weaker than the fifth; second longest, the others 

 decreasing rapidly in length. Opercular spines parallel, the upper 

 stronger. Maxillary, under side of lower jaw. Preorbital and greater 

 part of snout (nearly whole head except lips) scaled. Pores of lower 

 jaw inconspicuous. Ridges of head very low, ending in acute spines. 

 Nasal preocular, supraocular, and occipitul spiiuvs present. Gill 

 i-akers, half eye in length, 25 on anterior liml) of arch. Fourth to 

 sixth dorsal spines longest, 2^ in head; second anal spine stronger but 

 eipial to third in length, 2=V in head. Pectoral somewhat pointed 

 toward tip, as long as or only a little shorter than head, reaching 

 beyond vent or even to origin of anal. Ventral and caudal l.V in head, 

 the latter slightly concave; basal half of spinous dorsal with minute 

 scales; whole of soft dorsal, anal, and caudal completelj' scaled. 

 Color in life (Doderlein), red, darker on the l)ack; 5 blackish cross 

 bands running upon dorsal fin and ending below (except second and 

 thii'd) at lateral line; last 2 bands short, rounded; the longest 2. mid- 

 dle bands somewhat interrupted, each sometimes forming 2 spots. 



"This fish is re))nti'd dclicions when boiled with hainboo sprouts. 



