NO. 1489. JAPANESE FISHES— SMITH AND POPE. 475 



fine villiform teeth on vomer and palatines; no lingual teeth; preoper- 

 cular margin finel^v serrated, with rounded angle and a shallow emar- 

 gination; opercle terminating in a pointed flap, the spines minute and 

 concealed; gill-rakers long, about 10 to 12 on lower limli of arch; first 

 dorsal spine 0.5 diameter of eye, third spine the longest and equal to 

 distance from tip of snout to middle of pupil; soft dorsal and anal 

 rounded; second anal spine longest and strongest, more than twice the 

 length of the first; pectorals pointed, 1.25 in head, v^entrals extending 

 to 0.75 distance to anal spines; scales small, finely ctenoid, in obliciue 

 series above lateral line, in horizontal series below; bases of anal and 

 soft dorsal thickly scaled, lateral line continuous, concurrent with dor- 

 sal outline; 9 rows of scales between lateral line and insertion of dorsal. 

 Color of alcoholic specimen: Green, with 4 dark longitudinal stripes, 

 the first from upper edge of eye to end of spinous dorsal, the second 

 through the upper part of eye to base of last dorsal rays, the third 

 from center of eye to the upper half of the base of the caudal fin, the 

 fourth from below eye to lower base of caudal peduncle, the second 

 and third stripes beginning at tip of snout and running together to mid- 

 dle anterior margin of eye; a large black blotch on the lateral line from 

 the twenty-second to the twentj^-third scale, with the third black hori- 

 zontal stripe passing through its base; a black spot in the axil of the 

 pectorals. 



Described from a single specimen 77 mm. long, collected at Hama- 

 shima, April 3, 1902, obtained from Hamashima Fishery Station b}' 

 H. M. Smith. 



Ty2)e.—C^i. No. 55614 U.S.N.M. 



This species is without doubt the fish described and figured b}^ Da}^" 

 and erroneous^ identified as Lutianus chrysotsenia of Bleeker, from 

 which it differs noticeably in the smaller number of scales in lateral 

 line (80 in Bleeker's description, but 52 in Day's), in the shallower 

 preopercular notch, and in the coloration. The differences in colora- 

 tion are especially striking; in Bleeker's fish the color is given as 

 bluish green with 8 or more narrow, sinuous, dark-edged bands some- 

 what oblique above the lateral line and horizontal below it, and many 

 yellow spots on head; in Day's fish and the one we have here described 

 there are but four dark or blackish bands on a green background. 



Named for Dr. T. Nishikawa, formerly of the Imperial Fisheries 

 Bureau. 



65. TERAPON OXYRHYNCHUS Temminck and Schlegel. 

 STIMIHIKI; KOTOHIKI. 



Kochi, May 7, one specimen, 171 mm. long; Matsushima Bay, one 

 specimen, 149 mm. long; from Fisheiy Exi^eriment Station, Shiogama. 



a The Fishes of India, 1875, p. 36, pi. xi, fig. 3. 



