27. CHORISMOCACXTLUS. 15] 



5. Pelor japonicum. 



Pelor japonicum, Ouv. Sc Val. iv. p. 487 ; Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 44. 



pi. 18. f. 2. 

 tigrinum, Richards Ichthyol. Chin. p. 212. 



D. 3 I ^. A. 9. 



None of the pectoral rays produced. The diameter of the eye is 

 2| in the -wddth of the interocular space, which is very concave. 

 Cheek with a deep ovoid groove. The length of the snout is 2\ in 

 that of the head. Greyish-brown, marbled with reddish-white. 



Chinese and Japanese Seas. 



6. Pelor aurantiacum. 

 Teynm. 8)- Schley. Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 44. pi. 18. f, I. 

 D. 3|^. A. 9. 



None of the pectoral rays produced. Interocular space very con- 

 cave ; cheek with a deep ovoid groove. The length of the snout is 

 2g in that of the head. Orange-coloured, Avith scattered black dots. 

 {Schleg.) 



Sea of Japan. 



27. CHORISMODACTYLUS. 

 Choridactylus, Richards. Voy. Samarany, Fishes, p. 8. 



Head and body rather compressed, scaleless, with skinny flaps. 

 Bones of the head provided with ridges ; the praeorbital, proeoper- 

 culum and operculum armed ; a groove on the occiput. One dorsal 

 fin, with thirteen spines ; the anal with two ; three pectoral append- 

 ages. Ventrals with one spine and five rays. Villiforrn teeth in the 

 jaws only. Six branehiostegals ; air-bladder none ; pyloric append- 

 ages in small number. 



Seas of China and Madras. 



1. Chorismodactylus multibarbis. 



Choridactvlus multibarbus, Richards. T'oy. Samarany, Fishes, p. 8. 

 pi. 2. f. 1-3. 



■Q.ll A. f. V. 1/5. 



Head, body, and fi?is with many delicate tentacles ; two larger bar- 

 bels on the chin. The first three dorsal spines slightly remote from 

 the othei's ; the third, fourth and fifth are the longest ; anal spines 

 hidden bv the skin. rown, dotted Avith white ; a wlutish band 



