jordan-snyder] collection of fishes from japan 235 



Family Squalid^ 

 LEPIDORHINUS FOLIACEUS (Giinther) 



Kanatsubo-zame 

 . One specimen in good condition from off Enoura in Suruga bay. 

 " Kanatsubo is a vulgar term for a peculiar facial expression." 



Family Chim.erid.e 

 CHIMtERA PURPURASCENS Gilbert MS. 



(Gilbert MS. Fishes Collected oft" Hawaii by the Albatross, 1902.) 



Kachizame 



One specimen 132 centimeters, No. 12,902, Leland Stanford Junior 

 University Museum, from off Mishina, Izu in Sagami bay. 



Mr. Owston observes : " The fish is called Kachizame, the exact 

 meaning of which I have not been able to ascertain. Kachi may 

 mean ' a kind of gray color.' I have a duplicate specimen. They 

 were of a fine purplish black when fresh." 



Family Plagyodontid.e 

 PLAGYODUS FEROX (Lowe) 



(AJepisaiirus ccsadapius Bean) 



Two well-preserved examples are from Misaki. Mr. Owston 

 mentions the preservation of several duplicates and we have seen 

 the same species in the Imperial University of Tokyo. A com- 

 parison of the Japanese specimens with some from the west coast 

 of North America leaves little doubt as to the identity of P. ferox 

 and P. cFsciilapius (Bean) with the Japanese species. 



A specimen collected at Unalaska, Alaska, by Dr. Jordan, has 

 41 dorsal, 15 anal, and 8 ventral rays; another obtained near Point 

 Arenas, California, by Mr. Elijah Bishop, and presented to the 

 University by Prof. Robert E. Swain, has 38 dorsal, 15 anal, and 9 

 ventral rays. The Japanese examples have 35 and 36 dorsal, 15 

 anal, 10 and 9 ventral rays respectively. A specimen from San 

 Luis Obispo county, described and figured by Miss Flora Hartley,^ 

 has 39 dorsal (39 in description, 37 in figure), 17 anal, 9 ventral 

 rays. All the above have the first rays of dorsal, anal, and ventral 

 spine-like, with the anterior edge more or less roughly serrated. 



^ Proc. Cal. Acad. Set., 1895, p. 49, pi. 11. 



