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66. TERAPON JARBUA (Forskal). 

 KOTOHIKI. 



Kochi, Ma}" 7, one specimen, 75 nun. long. Known from India, 

 Borneo, Philippines, China, Samoa, etc., but not previously recorded 

 from Japan. 



Family H.^MULID^. 



GRUNTS. 



67. PLECTORHYNCHUS PICTUM (Thunberg.) 

 STJMIYAKI, 



Hamashima, April 8, 1902, two specimens, 80 and 95 mm. long; from 

 Hamashima Fishery Station. 



68. PLECTORHYNCHUS CINCTUS (Temminck and Schlegel). 



Kochi, May 7, one specimen, 262 mm. long. 



69. PARAPRISTIPOMA TRILINEATUM (Thunberg). 

 {Pristiporiui japonicum Cuvier and Valenciennes.) 



Urado, May 1(», one specimen, 270 mm. long. 



70. HAPALOGENYS NIGRIPINNIS (Temminck and Schlegel). 

 Kochi, May 11, one specimen, 130 nnn. long. 



71. HAPALOGENYS KISHINOUYEI Smith and Pope, new species. 



Head, 2.6; depth, 2; eye, 8; snout, 8.1; interor))ital, 4; dor.sal, xii, 

 14; anal, iii, 10; scales in lateral line, 50; gill-rakers, 11+6. 



Body short, high, much compressed; dorsal outline greatly arched, 

 ventral outline nearly straight; caudal peduncle compressed, its least 

 depth 3 in head; snout bluntly pointed; mouth moderate, horizontal, 

 the jaws about equal; maxillary reaching to bevond anterior margin 

 of pupil; jaws with villiform teeth, the anterior larger and sharply 

 pointed; roof of mouth toothless, but lined with villiform membranes; 

 symphyseal notch of upper jaw deep; 4 large pores on lower side of 

 mandible; papilla? on mandible minute and close-set; gill-rakers short 

 and thick; preopercle serrate, the denticulations much coarser at the 

 rounded angle; opercle with 2 short spines, the lower the sharper; 

 spinous dorsal preceded by a sharp procumbent .spine a little shorter 

 than the hrst upright spine; all the spines strong, the fourth the 

 longest and equal to distance from tip of snout to posterior rim of 

 orbit, the remaining spines graduated; soft dor.sal short and rounded, 

 with finely scaled ba.se; base of spinous dorsal about twice length of 

 soft portion; anal short and rounded, similar to .soft dorsal and pre- 

 ceded by 3 strong spines, of which the second, the longest, is 0.5 

 head; caudal rounded; ventrals with outer rays the longest; scales 



