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above; ventral inserted below the middle of pectoral, reaching beyond 

 midway to vent. 



Color in alcohol slaty above, lower part silvery; spines and rays of 

 dorsal fins minutely speckled with black, the fin-membranes whitish; 

 caudal fin more or less dusky, with darker edge; pectoral, ventral, and 

 anal fins whitish. 



Total length 70 mm. 



Type: Described from a specimen from Anpin, collected by M. 

 Watanabe, and preserved in the Carnegie Museum, Cat. of Fishes, No. 

 8284. 70 mm. 



Habitat: Six specimens were obtained at Anpin near Tainan, all 

 mature, with ripened ovaries and testes ; and numerous examples from 

 Toko at the estuary of the Shimo-Tamusui River. 



Remarks: The present species is closely allied to Liza troscheli, 

 differing from it, however, in having the maxillaries not exposed and 

 the nostrils separated. 



8. Liza pescadorensis Oshima, sp. nov. (Plate XII, fig. i.) 

 Taiwan-bora (Japan). 



Head 3.96 in length; depth 4.1 1 ; D. IV-i, 8; A. Ill, 9; P. 16; V. I, 

 5; width of head 1.44 in its length; snout 3.59; eye 4.38; interorbital 

 space 2.20; first dorsal spine 1.65; first dorsal ray 1.93; third anal 

 spine 3.; first anal ray 2.28; least depth of caudal peduncle 2.33; 

 pectoral 1.40; ventral 1.75; thirty-three scales in a lateral series from 

 gill-opening above to caudal base and four more large ones on the 

 latter; ten scales in a transverse series from the vent upward and 

 backward to soft dorsal ; twenty predorsal scales. 



Body elongate, compressed posteriorly; dorsal profile nearly straight, 

 -r(.rv slightly descending anteriorly, ventral profile convex; deepest at 

 the origin of spinous dorsal ; head rather robust, lower surface more 

 or less constricted below eye; lower surface much more inclined than 

 the superior; snout quadrate, rather broad; interorbital space flat- 

 tened, nearly straight ; eye large, anterior, with no adipose eyelid ; 

 mouth subinferior, the cleft three and one-half times as broad as 

 deep, its angle scarcely reaching a vertical through the anterior border 

 of the anterior nostril ; mandibular angle remarkably obtuse, sym- 

 physis forming a small knob, which fits into a depression above; ex- 



