8 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



sharp scutes. Head compressed, lower jaw large, projecting, entering dorsal 

 profile, which is straight to nape, then rises in a gentle curve; occipital region 

 with a long narrow, V-shaped groove, the two bounding ridges of which unite 

 before the eye. Mouth terminal, moderate, very oblique; maxillary reaching 

 beyond anterior margin of pupil; premaxillary distinct, fixed; teeth extremely 

 minute, villiform in both jaws; gill-rakers numerous, long, slender; eye large, 

 elevated, upper edge of pupil on a level with the apex of the mandible. Scales 

 deciduous, rubbed off of our specimens, probably about sixty in number. 



Dorsal short, inserted midway between the tip of the snout and the base of 

 the caudal; anal long, inserted under the posterior third of the dorsal, extending 

 to a point within diameter of eye from origin of caudal; caudal deeply forked, 

 apparently not filamentous; pectorals small; ventrals wanting. 



Color dusky brown above, silvery below; all fins pale; caudal with traces of 

 black on marginal rays. 



Family DOROSOMATID^. 



22. Konosirus punctatus (Temminck & Schlegel). "Konoshiro." 



Fusan (No. 4527a-l). 



23. Konosirus nasus (Bloch). 



Chinnampo (No. 4227a). 



Family ENGRAULIDiE. 



24. Engraulis japonicus Temminck & Schlegel. 



Fusan. 



25. Setipinna gilberti Jordan & Starks. 

 Fusan; very common. 



26. Trichosoma hamiltoni (Gray). 



Fusan, Chinnampo. (No. 4528, thirty specimens from Fusan, all marked 

 " Korea.") (No. 4133a-e.) 



27. Coilia nasus Temminck & Schlegel. "Etsu." 

 Port Arthur (Abbott); Chinnampo (No. 4137a). 



28. Coilia ectenes Jordan & Seale. "Etsu." 

 Fusan, Chemulpo (No. 4515a-b). 



This species differs from Coilia nasus of Southern Japan in the much 

 larger number of fin-rays (123 instead of 81 in the anal). The number of dorsal 



