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MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



common food-fish, but not highly vahied, being reputed to be rather coarse. It 

 reaches a length of about four feet. 



The species has not been recorded since the time of Temminck and Schlegel, 

 who knew it only from a drawing by Biirger, a drawing perfectly recognizable. 

 The existence of the species has been questioned by Steindachner, and by 

 Jordan and Thompson. 



The following are the field notes of Dr. Jordan (Seoul Market). Dark 

 dusty gray in life. Dorsal and caudal black; a faint, dark, axillary blotch. 

 Preopercle with long, slender, flexible points. Body slender; caudal rhombic; 

 scales loose. Outer teeth in both jaws equally enlarged; head pointed; jaws 

 subequal; maxillary 2.66 in head. Pectoral long, 2 in head; anal spines 

 very small. Gill-rakers 10 + 12, including rudiments; all of them short and 

 thick; dorsal scaleless. Dorsal X, I, 29; anal II, 7; scales 75. All the dorsal 

 spines low, the third highest. 



131. Scisena albiflora (Richardson). "Akaguchi," "Kuchi." 



Sciwna tenlo Basilewsky, Ichthyographia ChincE Borealis, p. 220. Gulf of 



Pechili. 

 Port Arthur (Abbott); Fusan, Chinnampo (No. 4357a, 4372a) ("Korea" 



4519a). 



Fig. 27. Scimna albiflora (Richardson). (After Jordan and Thompson, Proc. U. S. N. M., Vol. XXXIX, 



p. 250.) 



Next to the red tai {Pagrosomus major) this is the commonest fish at Fusan, 

 being salted in great numbers. In life it is lustrous brassy, or coppery in color, 

 hence called "akaguchi" or red croaker. It is fairly well figured and very 

 poorly described by Basilewsky as Scicena tenlo. 



The slight differences separating the Japanese species Scicena niitsukurii 

 from this species seem to hold in our specimens. 



