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Family LATILID^E. 



TILE-FISHES. 



59. LATILUS JAPONICUS (Houttuyn). 

 AMADAI (SWEET PERCH). 



Kochi, May 7, one specimen, 230 mm. long^. Color when fresh: 

 Body reddish, nape bright red; dorsal pale red; anal sky blue; lower 

 third of caudal blue, upper two-thirds blue-and-yellow striped; pec- 

 torals pale red; ventrals white. 



Family CEPOLID^. 



BAND-FISHES. 

 60. ACANTHOCEPOLA KRUSENSTERNII (Temminck and Schlegel). 



Hamashima, October 5, 1902, one specimen, 530 mm. long-, from a 

 depth of 6 to 7 fathoms; from Hamashima Fisher}^ Station. 



61. ACANTHOCEPOLA LIMBATA (Cuvier and Valenciennes.) 



KANEHIRA. 



Urado, May 10, one specimen, 540 mm. long. Body golden pink; 

 head silvery white below; iris red; dorsal with a black ocellus anteri- 

 orly and a white triangular spot at base of each membrane; anal red, 

 edged with black, white at base. Rare at Urado and Kochi. 



62. CEPOLA SCHLEGELI Bleeker. 



Hamashima, October 5, 1902, one specimen, 270 mm. long, from a 

 depth of to 7 fathoms; from Hamashima Fisher}^ Station. 



Family PRIACANTHID.E. 



63. PSEUDOPRIACANTHUS NIPHONIUS (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Urado, May 10, one specimen, 90 mm. long. 

 Family LUTIANID^E. 



SNAPPERS. 

 64. LUTIANUS NISHIKAW.E Smith and Pope, new species. 



Head 2.6; depth 2.6; eye 3.75; snout 3.25; maxillary 2.33; interor- 

 bital 5; dorsal x, 15; anal iii, 8; ventrals i, 5; scales in lateral line 52. 



Body moderatel}' short and compressed; dorsal outline elevated, the 

 greatest depth at base of third and fourth dorsal spines; profile of 

 head from tip of snout to occiput nearly straight or but very slightly 

 concave; ventral outline nearly horizontal; snout longer than eye, 

 conical; eye moderate, high; jaws about equal; maxillai-y extending to 

 below anterior margin of pupil; canine teeth in jaws, a pair of larger 

 ones on premaxillaries and similar widely separated ones on mandible; 



