NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF FISHES FROM PORT 

 ARTHUR, MANCHURIA, OBTAINED BY JAMES FRANCIS 

 ABBOTT. 



By David Stark Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks. 



Of Stanford University, California. 



During the summer of mo-i, Dr. James Francis Abbott, now of 

 Washing-ton University, St. Louis, Missouri, then professor in the 

 Japanese Naval Academy at Etajima, obtained a collection of fishes 

 from the harbor of Port Arthur, in Manchuria. The species in this 

 collection are enumerated in the present paper. The specimens are 

 divided between the United States National Museum and the museum 

 of Stanford University. The accompanying plates are the work of 

 Mr. William S. Atkinson. 



The faima of Port Arthur is in general not very different from that 

 of the west coast of Japan, a few distinctively Chinese species being, 

 however, represented. 



Five species in this collection seem to be new. 



Family RAJID.E. 



I. RAJA MEERDERVOORTI Bleeker. 



One specimen, a mature male. 



2. RAJA KENOJEI Miiller and Henle. 



Three specimens. 



Family CLUPEID.F. 



3. HARENGULA ZUNASI (Bleeker). 



Several specimens preserved. The depth is rather variable even 

 among specimens of the same size, running from 3 to 3i in the length 

 to base of caudal. Giinther describes the depth as being equal to the 

 length of the head. In our specimens the length of the head is con- 

 tained from li to If in the depth, agreeing very well with the plate 

 published by Schlegel.« Bleeker describes the type as having teeth 

 on the palatine, but Giinther later examining the same specimen 



« Fauna Japonica, pi. cvii, fig. 1. 



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