212 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 



GiU-rakers long, 9+15 to 18; scales 133. A. 14; D. 13; vomer with seven or 

 eight sharp teeth. 



Color olive, sides silvery; back with two or three irregular rows of brown spots, 

 a few on dorsal, some at base, some on upper part of caudal, none on adipose fin. 

 The sides turn red in fall. 



Another specimen, a male, somewhat hook-nosed. A. 14, besides rudiments. 

 GiU-rakers 8+17. Caudal forked; tip of dorsal paler, not black. Adipose fin 

 large. Unspotted bases of fins dark. Dorsal and caudal with some black spots; 

 back with spots; spots along base of dorsal; pyloric cseca few, not over forty to fifty. 

 Weight three or four pounds. 



21. Plecoglossus altivelis Temminck & Schlegel. 



(Mem. Carn. Mus., Vol. IV, p. 167, fig. 3; I.e. Vol. VI, p. 10, fig. 9). 

 Matsushima, Nos. 6257a-b; Okayama, Nos. 6101a-g; Lake Biwa at Matsubara, 

 Nos. 6409a-f; Yodo River, near Osaka, Nos. 6315a-c. 



Family SALANGID.E. 



22. Salanx microdon Bleeker. 

 Matsushima Bay, Nos. 6065a-f. 

 Depth eight to eleven inches in length. 



Family AULOPID^. 



23. Aulopus japonicus Giinther. (Plate XL, fig. 1). 

 Misaki, No. 6461. 



Family SYNODONTID^E. 



24. Saurida argyrophanes (Richardson). 



Osaka, Nos. 6332a-c; three specimens, the longest being 250 mm. in length, 

 as long as the types of Saurida eso. Scales 47-54. Misaki, Nos. 6306a-b; Shi- 

 monoseki. No. 6194a. 



25. Saurida eso Jordan & Herre. 



(Mem. Carn. Mus., Vol. VI, p. 12, fig. 12). 



Osaka, No. 6323a. Length 264 mm. Scales 63. In S. argyrophanes, the 

 scales are always larger. Shimonoseki, No. 6162a. 



26. Synodus japonicus (Houttuyn). 

 Kobe, No. 6085a. 



27. Trachinocephalus my ops (Forster). 



Kobe, Nos. 6231a-b; Misaki, Nos. 6193a-b. 



