NO. 1489. 



JAPANESE FISHES— SMITH AND POPE. 



471 



its length equal to 0.66 diameter of eye; mouth oblique; maxillary 

 reaching to below middle of pupil, the width of its distal end more 

 than 0.5 diameter of e3^e; mandible projecting; teeth in upper jaw 

 in 2 series, the outer canine, the inner in a villiform band; on each 

 side of the tip of the upper jaw one pair of long canines directed 

 downward and another pair directed inward and backward; teeth 

 in lower jaw a single row of canines, with 2 pairs of enlarged canines 

 on each side at tip; a narrow band of small teeth on palatines, 

 and a small patch on vomer; tongue smooth, pointed; preopercle with 

 rounded angle, the upper limb serrated, the lower smooth; opercle 

 with 3 flap spines, the middle longest; gill-rakers long and slender, 23 

 on lower limb of iirst arch; scales large, strongly toothed, hiWy cov- 

 ering body and head, about 6 rows on cheeks; lateral line high, con- 

 current with back, the tubules straight, simple, and forming an 

 obtuse angle under posterior end of dorsal tin; dorsal tin continuous, 

 the third spine much the longest, 0.5 in head and nearly twice length 



Fig. 4.— ToSANA Niw,E. (From the type.) 



of second, fourth to tenth subequal; soft rays of nearly equal length 

 except last 2, the longest considerabh^ longer than third spine; anal 

 shorter and deeper than soft dorsal; caudal deeply and evenly con- 

 cave, the outer rays much produced, upper lobe longer; pectorals and 

 ventrals shorter than head. Color in alcohol rosy pink, lighter below; 

 all tins yellowish. 



This species resembles Pseudanthias japonicus (from Japan) and 

 Pseudanthias cichlops (from Sumatra); from the former it is distin- 

 guished by its slender form, its more numerous gill-rakers (14 on 

 lower arm of first arch in japonlcus), in having the third dorsal and 

 the third anal spines the longest, and in its deeply concave caudal; 

 from cichlops it dift'ers in its more slender body, larger scales, relative 

 length of anterior dorsal and anal spines, shorter ventrals, and shape 

 of caudal. 



A single specimen, 110 mm. long, from Urado Bay, collected May 

 10, 1903, by H. M. Smith. 



