418 KAMAKICHI KiSHIN'OUYE : 



nets. Caught {ibnudautly ou a culm diiy aftov a sti'ong gale. 



Cybium chinense ScUegel. 

 ImisaAvava, aosawava, liasawara, lioteisawara, knsamoclii, oldsawara, 



uke, iisbisawara. 

 Figs, 34, 40. 



?f)anmber .sineiisi.«, Liacepede, Hist. "Sat. Poiss. HI, 23, 1832. 



y Cg'ilum rhinenxe, Cuv. Jk Vnl., YIU. 180, 1831. 



Cy'jium chlntnae, Schlegel, Fauna .Tapon., Poiss, 103, Tab. 53, Fig. 1, 1850; Kishinouye, Sui. 



Gak. Ho. I, 11, PI. ], Fig. 5. 1915 

 Scoihha-omorus chinentis. Kishinouye, Zxil. Mag. Tokyo, XX, 1, PI. 2, Fig. 1, 1908. 



D. 16, 15, 8. A. 16, 7. GiU-rakers 2 + 9. Vert. 18+22. 



Body elongated, laterally compressed, and liecomes deep rather suddenly 

 beliind the nape in some forms, probably the male. Head large, pointed, and 

 concave in the dorsal outline. Snout long. Teeth in jaws lanceolate, trenchant, 

 and curved inward, about 20 iu the upper and abiut 15 ia the lower jaw. 

 Vilhform teeth on the vomer, palatines, and the tongue. First dorsal rather low, 

 becomes almost invisible in the posterior part, being hidden in the groove. 

 Caudal very large and powerful. Pectorals remarkably lai'ge and rounded. 

 The lateral line lias a marked cm-ve nnder the posterior part of the &st dorsal, 

 and is nndulating in the caudal portion, where the lateral line is found Ixjlow 

 the lateral median line. The intestine is bent a little near the middle point. 

 Abdominal cavity rather high. 



Back greenish blue, Ijelly silvery, and fins mostly bkckish. Vontrals and 

 the anal are blackish at the margin, but the anal finlets are quite colourless. 

 Ii'is is silvery or washed with hght brown. 



Tliis species attains a big size, being the largest one among om* seerfishes. 

 A fish of 2 m in length, and 80 kg in weight is recorded. Too fat, and more or 

 less inferior in quality. Nut sought after with a special fishing apparatus. Some- 

 times uuintentioually caught in nets for other fishes. Rather abundant on the 

 southern coast of Chosen, two or thi'ee dozens of this species lx;ing often caught 

 on an autumn day, in a pouna-uet erected at a depth of about 20 m ; and in 

 the fish-market of Fusan gigantic forms of this species attr.act visitors' eyes. 



On the Pacific coast the northern limit of the disti-ibution of this species 

 is foimd in the cast off Chiba-ken, and in the Japan Sea off Akita-ken. 



