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Color-pattern lacking in alcoholic specimens, save for three indistinct yellowish 

 stripes running longitudinally along body, the second through the eye; bases of 

 dorsal and anal of similar color. 



This species very greatly resembles Zalanthias or Pseudanthias venator Snyder, 

 differing mainl}' in the remarkable fact that in the latter the bases of the vertical 

 fins are not scaled, save for a " low sheath " at the base of the soft dorsal. From 

 Franzia nobilis it is distinguished by the lack of the elongated dorsal spine, by the 

 color, proportions of fins, etc. 



136. Sacura margaritacea (Hilgendorf). 

 Misaki, Nos. 6174a-b. 



Some specimens with, others without, a large black spot on body. Anthias 

 pulcher Doderlein, characterized by the presence of this mark, is doubtless the same 

 as Sacura or Anthias margaritacea, in which the spot is wanting. 



137. Zalanthias azumanus (Jordan & Richardson). 

 {Anthias japonicus Hilgendorf, the name pre-occupied.) 

 Misaki, No. 6169a-c. 



138. Pikea japonica (Doderlein). 



(Coll. Owston) Boshu, No. 4168a; Yenoshima, Sagami Bay, No. 4238a. 



Family LOBOTID^. 



139. Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch). 



Matsushima, a large example seen, the second known from Japan. It is 

 known locally as Matsudai (Pine-cone porgy). 



Family LUTIANID^. 



140. Lutianus quinquelineatus (Bloch). 



Kominato, No. 6349a, Oshima Island (off Sagami Bay). 



This specimen from Oshima corresponds entirely with specimens from the 

 East Indies. A strong interopercular knob and preopercular notch are present; 

 dorsal surface of head scaled to above eyes; no lingual teeth; vomer with a A-shaped 

 band of teeth; lateral stripes narrow, five in number, three upper converging to 

 upper edge of eye (not as in L. kasmira); sixty-five scales above lateral line, 

 fifty-five below in longitudinal series; the rows of scales above the lateral line oblique. 

 This is the fish described and figured by Bloch. It differs from L. kasmira in having 

 larger scales, narrower body-bands, and in the different distribution of the latter. 

 It has not been recorded from Japan since the time of Bloch. 



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