232 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxi. 



Color yellowish gray, the body and head sparsely covered with 

 small, roundish, black spots, a few of these upon dorsal and anal fins. 

 Dorsal and anal rays black edged; caudal with a few dark specks. 



One .specimen was taken by Dr. Hugh M. Smith at Suzaki in 8hi- 

 koku, province of Tosa, and at Yamagawa, in Kagoshima Bay, the 

 above account from a specimen 4 inches long from Giran, Formosa 



{nitidus, shining.) 



33. ZEBRIAS Jordan and Snyder. 



^sop'a Kaup, Weignianns Archiv., 1858, p. 95 {zebra, corimta, etc.). 

 Zebrias Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1900, p. 380 

 (zebrinus). 



Allied to Synaptura^ differing in havmg the pectoral tin of the left 

 side rudimentary or wanting. Bod}^ with black cross bars, more or 

 less arranged in pairs. Bod}' broad-ovate; dorsal and anal united 

 with the caudal. Eyes and color on the right side. E3^es rather 

 small, the upper in advance of lower. Mouth small, twisted to the 

 left side; teeth minute, on blind side only. Scales small, ctenoid. 

 Lateral line single, straight. In our judgment, the name jE)iopia 

 should replace ZehrkiK., for this genus. 



{zehra^ zebra.) 



KEY TO SPECIES. 



«. Caudal with yellow spots; dorsal and anal fully united to caudal zebrinus, 49 



aa. Caudal without yellow spots; dorsal and anal not fully united to 



caudal japonicus, 50 



49. ZEBRIAS ZEBRINUS (Schlegel). 



SHIMA USINOSHITA (STRIPED COW-TONGUE); SHIMAGAREI (STRIPED FLOUNDER). 



,Sb/ea zeftnna Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 1846; p. 186, pi. xcv, fig. 1 (Nagasaki). 

 Zebrias zebrinus Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1900, p. 900 



(Nagasaki); Check List, 1901, p. 123 (Nagasaki). 

 ^Wra o»;mo/.»ra Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 279 (Canton). 

 Synaptura ommatnra Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), XI, 1903, p. 56 (southern 



Japan). 

 Pleuronectes fasc'uttus Gronow, Syst., Ed. Gray, 1854, p. 91. 

 Synaptura zebra Gunther, Cat. Fish, IV, 1862, p. 484 ( Amoy, Pinang).— Namiye, 



Class. Cat., 1881, p. Ill (Tokyo).— Otaki, Journ. Fish. Bur., 1897, p. 8, pi. 



vni, fig. 11.— Ishikawa, Prel. Cat, 1897, p. 24 (Tokyo). 

 Brachirus zebra Bleeker, Atlas Pleur., 1870, pi. ix, fig. 3 (East Indies); Poiss. 



Conn. Japoni, 1870, p. 22 (Nagasaki, Shinioda). 

 (Not Pleuronectes zebra Bloch, Ausl. Fische, III, 1790, p. 27, pi. clxxxvii= 



Synaptura zebra Day, Fishes Indi&^Aesopia quagga Kaup, Wieg. Archiv., 



1858, p. 98. ) 

 Zebrias zebra Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 769 



(Yokohama).— Jordan and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 1902, 



p. 367 (Formosa, not of Block) . 



Habitat. — Coasts of Japan, north to Hakodate, south to Formosa. 



