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Chinnampo, the port of Pyeng-yang. We have also included the species taken 

 by Mr. Pierre Louis Jouy and described by Jordan and Snyder from the large 

 island of Tsushima, which lies between Fusan and Shimonoseki. This island 

 belongs politically to Japan, but geographically rather to Korea. 



The marine fauna of these regions is fairly well known, but the record of 

 the river-fauna is still very far from complete. 



The synonymy of several species is uncertain, and the identity of some 

 with Chinese species on the one hand or with Japanese forms on the other is 

 still far from certain. Numerous genera and species recorded from the Amur 

 River by Dybowsky and by Berg have yet to be compared with Korean forms. 

 The most valuable work so far done on the fish-fauna of this region is that of 

 Dr. Peter Schmidt and his colleague in the Museum of St. Petersburg, Dr. Leo 

 S. Berg. 



The present paper gives a list of all the species known to occur in Korea, or 

 in the seas immediately adjoining. It includes the species of the present collec- 

 tion, as well as those in the Museum of St. Petersburg, collected by Herz and 

 by Schmidt, described later in different papers by Dr. Solomon Herzenstein, 

 Dr. Peter Schmidt, and Dr. Leo S. Berg. There are also included the species 

 obtained for the United States National Museum by Pierre Louis Jouy at 

 Gensan and Fusan, and those obtained at Port Arthur by Professor Francis 

 James Abbott, and sent to Stanford University. While Port Arthur is outside 

 of Korea, its fauna must be identical with that of the near-by ports of Chin- 

 nampo and Chemulpo in Korea. The collections of Jouy and Abbott have 

 been described by Jordan and Starks in the Proceedings of the United States 

 National Museum. We have further included the marine fishes mentioned by 

 Basilewsky, in his I chthy agraphia Chinee Borealis (1855) from the gulf of Pechili 

 about Tientsin. The species named in this work are very imperfectly described 

 and some of them can only, if at all, be recognized by their Chinese names. 

 Some species noted by Basilewsky are here described in detail for the first time. 

 We include these, as there is apparently no real difference between the marine 

 fauna at Tientsin and that on the opposite side of the Gulf at Port Arthur, 

 Chinnampo, and Chemulpo. There seems to be very little difference between 

 the fishes of the west shore and those of Fusan at the southern extremity of 

 Korea. All these bays, Fusan, Chemulpo, and Chinnampo, have sandy bottoms, 

 and are much frequented by flounders, soles, conger-eels, croakers, gobies, and 

 other fishes of the sands. The market of Fusan forms a rather striking co'ntrast 

 to that of Shimonoseki, the nearest town on the Japanese side of the Straits of 



