so. 1489. 



JAPANESE FISHES— SMITH AND POPE. 



491 



Specimens taken June 2: Head and back olive green; sides bluish 

 with small golden spots and lilack specks; the bod}^ color projected 

 downward in twenty or more teeth-like processes with pale 3^ellow 

 between; abdomen bluish white; ventrals pale yellow; ten or twelve 

 irregular blackish spots on back and sides; cheeks minutely specked 

 with o-reen, blue, and golden; first dorsal wnth pale-yellow margin; 

 second dorsal dirty yellow, with blackish markings. The smaller 

 examples have a light-colored body with irregular dark-brown ])lotches; 

 the larger ones become darker and more uniform, but still show dark 

 bars. 



Family CARISTIID^E." 



153. CARISTIUS JAPONICUS Gill and Smith. 



Fl(i. 10.— (AKisru .s JAPONICUS. (From the type. "I 



Kagoshima, fJune 12, one specimen, 75 nun. long. Body nnich com- 

 pressed, cuneiform, covered with small, deciduous cycloid scales which 



" A new family of jugular acanthopterygiang. By Theodore Gill and Hugh M. 

 Smith. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVIII, December 9, 1905, pp. 249-250. Caristius 

 japoriictiK described as a new genus and species. 



