248 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM, 



Misaki, No. 6051, tide-pools. 



Young 3 cm. long, similar to adult in color, save lack of stripes on dorsal and 

 anal. 



Family KUHLIID^. 



123. Safole Taeniura (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 

 Misaki, No. 6091 many. 



Abundant in the tide-pools. Color like that of the adult. 



Family SERRANIDiE. 



124. Lateolabrax japonicus Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 Shimonoseki, No. 7276a; Shinabara; Sendai. 



125. Niphon spinosus Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Osaka; abundant in the market. Misaki, No. 6318a, tide-pools, young 6 cm. 

 long. 



A dark stripe from snout through eye to upper caudal rays, a fainter one 

 below from lower caudal rays, and another as faint along dorsal profile of body from 

 soft dorsal rays, where it is intense, separated narrowly from its fellow of the 

 opposite side. 



126. Cephalopholis boninius sp. nov. (Plate XXIX, fig. 7). 



Description of type. No. 6038, a specimen 180 mm. in total length, from the 

 Bonin Islands. 



Head 2.6 in body-length to base of caudal, 3 in total depth; 3 in body; eye 5.75 

 in head; snout 3.66; maxillary 2; interorbital space 7.5; dorsal rays IX, 16; anal 

 III, 9; scales in lateral series 108; in transverse series between insertion of dorsal 

 and lateral line, 17; between lateral line and anal insertion 42; gill-rakers 7 + 11. 



Maxillary extending to below posterior border of eye; latter small, 1.5 in snout; 

 interorbital space narrow and slightly convex; teeth in upper jaw with enlarged 

 outer row and minor band of minute teeth; a canine on each side anteriorly; a 

 patch of enlarged depressible teeth behind each, most teeth posterior to these 

 canine-like; similar and opposed patches in lower jaw, on sides and inner row of 

 enlarged teeth, with several rows of much smaller teeth outside, all depressible 

 save the outermost and smallest; vomer with a V-shaped patch of small depressible 

 teeth; palatines with single row of similar ones. Gill-rakers stout and short, one 

 half diameter of eye in length. Pre-opercular margin finely serrate on lower half 

 of upper limb; opercle with three spines, middle longest. 



Dorsal inserted over point of opercle; fourth to ninth spines subequal; 3.33 in 

 head; first rays but slightly longer, longest (eleventh) 2.5 in head; anal inserted 



