NO. 1484. JA PANESE FLOUNDERS AND SOLES— JORDAN d: ST A RKS. 248 



Acedia Jordan, in Jordan and Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 1889, p. 821 

 {nehulosus). 



Bod}^ elongate, more or less lanceolate in outline, with the eyes and 

 color on the left side; eyes small, very close together, with no distinct 

 interorbital ridge between them; mouth small, twisted toward the 

 blind side; teeth little developed, in villiform bands; edge of preop- 

 ercle covered by the scales; gill openings narrow, the gill membranes 

 adnate to the shoulder girdle above, joined together and free from the 

 isthmus l)elow; pectoral fins wanting (in the adult); vertical fin.s more 

 or less confluent; scales ctenoid; lateral line wanting. Ventral fin of 

 eyed side only present, free from the anal; head without fringes. 



[ffvv^ together; ^t'cy, to grow; ovpa^ tail; from the united vertical 

 tins). 



6o. SYMPHURUS ORIENTALIS (Bleeker). 



Aphorislla orientnlis Bleeker, Enum. Foiss. ConnuH. dii Japoii, 1879, ]>. ;!1, pi. ii, 



fig. 1 (Japan). 

 SympJiurns orieutdlis Jordan and Snyder, Check-List, 1901, j). 122. 

 Symphurus sp. Schmidt, Pise. Mar. Orient, 1904, p. 249 (Vladivostok). 

 f Achirus plagusia Basilewsky, Soc. Nat. Mosc.,1855, p. 245 (Tchili; Pekin): not 

 Pleuronedes plagnsia Block and Snyder, a Jamaican species of Sipnjiltimiit. 

 Ilah/tat. — Coasts of Japan, north of Vladivostok. 

 Head, 5 in length to caudal base; depth, 3i. Eye, iOi in head; 

 maxillary, 3f. Dorsal, 100; anal, 86; scales, 90. 



Mouth curved but scarcely hooked at tip of upper jaw; snout pro- 

 jecting a little beyond mouth. Eyes small, the upper slightly in 

 advance of lower; interorbital space about half vertical diameter of 

 eye. Anterior nostril in a tube near front of upper jaw; posterior 

 nostril in front of upper margin of lower eye. End of maxillary 

 below posterior edge of pupil. 



Origin of dorsal above front of upper eye. Ventral not joined to 

 anal. 



Color, dusky with 5 diffused dark cross bands, one across opercular 

 region in front of ventral; one across body a little behind front of 

 anal; the other three equally spaced, the last one just anterior to base 

 of caudal. Fine points of dark color scattered profusely over the 

 dorsal, caudal, and anal; the ventral uniform. 



Here described from the plate published by Bleeker. The counts 

 of tins and scales are from Bleeker's description and do not agrct^ with 

 the plate. 



We have not seen this species, and do not feel sure of the ciiaractcrs 

 ascribed to it. A young specimen of Areliscus tnterraptux, with the 

 scales lost, may be easily taken for 8y7n2)hwrus. 

 {oriental is^ Eastern.) 



