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brown blotch just behind arch of lateral line and another at middle of 

 straight portion of lateral line; dorsal and anal inconspicuously and 

 irreg'ularly dotted with }>rown dots, and at regular intervals, alxnit 10 

 rays apart is a round spot, dark, nearly as large as pupil, at l)ase of 

 rays; 1 or 2 very faint bars on pectoral; caudal dark at base and tip 

 of rays, a broad light l)and across its middle. 



The above description is drawn from a female example 16 cm. in 

 length from Keerun, Formosa. We did not find the species in Japan, 

 although originally described from Nagasaki. 



(/ifp/og-, m3^riad; aGri)p^ star.) 



2. SCyEOPS Jordan and Starks. 



Scxo-ps Jordan and Starks, BulL U. S. Fish. Comni., XXII, 1902 (1904), p. 627 

 ( grandisquama) . 



This genus in near Platop}ir[i><^ differing in the large, caducous 

 scales; the tin rays are not produced in the male and the sexual differ- 

 ences are less pronounced than in Phitoplinjx. Teeth one-rowed; gill- 

 rakers very short. Size small. A second species, 8cse,ops pmcilura 

 (Bleeker), verj^ similar to the type of the genus, occurs in the East 

 Indies. Scxops xcna/idrla is found in Hawaii. 



{GKixiog^ left; oDip^ eye.) 



KEY TO SPECIES. 



a. Scales large, 36 in a lateral series. Color plain brownish; caudal fin with a black 



spot al)ove and one below grandiscjuitnia, 2 



aa. Scales smaller, 45 in a lateral series; u])per eye more posterior. Color light 

 brown, freckled with darker brown; caudal fin with three dark cross-shades. 



Ivberms, 3 



2. SC.EOPS GRANDISQUAMA (Schlegel). 



DARTJMAGAREI (DARUMA 'r-FLOUNDER); MARUTAGAREI (LOG-FLOUNDER). 



Rhoinbiifi fjrandisqaauia Scmlecjel, Fauna .Taponica, Poiss., p. 183, 1846, pi. xni, 



figs. 3, 4 (Nagasaki). 

 Rhomboidirldhys grand isfjuama Gunther, Cat., IV, p. 437 (China, also by error 



ascribed to theGulf of Fonseca). — Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 25 ( Kishin). — 



Namiye, Class. Cat., 1881, p. 110 (Kishin). 

 Eng!,'prosopo)i grandm]u<i)na Jordan and Snydek, Fish .Tapan, Annot. Zool. Jap. 



' Check-List, 190, p. 122 (Nagasaki). 

 Sca:o]»^ grandisquama Jordan and Starks, Bull. U. S. Fish Comn., XXII, 1904, 



p. 627, pi. VIII, fig. 2 (Owari Bay, Saganu Bay). 



Habitat. — Sandy coasts of Japan, northward to Misaki. 



Head, 41 m length to base of caudal; depth, 1|; upper eye, 3i m 

 Ihead; maxillary, 3^; snout, 4|; dorsal, 79; anal, 60; series of scales, 36. 



Body rather broad; the anterior upper profile steep; snout a little 

 projecting with a shallow notch above; maxillary reaching past front 



(iDaruma, a squat image of Buddha, a name also applied to certain Scorpa^noid 

 and cottoid fishes. Karei, garei for euphony, flounder. 



