NO. 1714. JAPANESE SEA BASS.— JORDAN AND RICHARDSON. 427 



specimen all traces of the crimson side stripes have disappeared, and 

 in 1 specimen traces of the blotches in the dorsal membranes are all 

 but obliterated. Thus is probably to be explained Doctor Doderlein's 

 failure to figure any color pattern. As compared with our specimens, 

 the length of the pectorals in the figure of Malakiclitliys griseus 

 Doderlein are about as much too long as those of Satsuma macrops 

 Smith and Pope are too short. 

 (griseus, gray.) 



2. Genus DIPLOPRION Kuhl and Van Hasselt. 



Diploprion Kuhl and Van Hasselt, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 

 Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 137 {bifasciatum). 



Body short and deep, much compressed, back elevated; mouth 

 large, protractile; maxillary with a large supplemental bone; jaws, 

 vomer, and palatines with bands of villiform teeth, no canines; 

 tongue smooth; upper limb of preopercle without conspicuous ser- 

 ratures; angle obtuse; lower limb with 8 or 10 strong teeth; oper- 

 culum with 3 strong spines; gill rakers moderate, with knob-like 

 tips; scales very. small, ctenoid; lateral line complete; cheeks and 

 opercles scaly; rest of head, jaws, and chin bare; parts of operculum, 

 preoperculum, infraorbital, and suborbital regions rugose; 2 dor- 

 sals, connected at the base, anterior with 8 strong spines; anal III, 

 13; caudal rounded; ventrals below base of pectorals, close together, 

 w4th a short but strong spine; pectorals rounded. 



East Indies, China and Japan; probably but one species. The 

 affinities of this genus are rather obscure, but it is doubtless a mem- 

 ber of the family of Serranicjse. 



idcTiXboc, double; Tzpicov, saw.) 



2. DIPLOPRION BIFASCIATUS Kuhl and Van Hasselt. 

 OKIMADO (off-shore window-shutter). 



Diploprion bifasciatum Kuhl and Van Hasselt, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 137, pi. 21 (Java). — ^Temminck and Schle- 

 GEL, Faun. Japon., Pise, 1842, p. 2, pi. 2 (Nagasaki). — Richardson, Ich- 

 thyol. Chin., 1846, p. 221 (Canton, insect boxes). — Bleeker, Nieuwe Nalez. 

 Japan., 1857, p. 59 (Nagasaki; Simabara Bay). — Nystrom, Svensk. Vet. 

 Akad. Handl., vol. 13, pt. 4, No. 4, 1887, p. 8 (Nagasaki).— Ishikawa, 

 Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 56 (Kagoshima). — Steindachner and Doderlein, 

 Denkschr. Akad. Wien, vol. 47, 1883, p. 234 (Kagoshima). ^Jordan and 

 Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 29, 1905, p. 521 (Hongkong); Proc. Daven- 

 port Acad. Sci., vol. 10, 1905, p. 9 (Hongkong). 



Head 3; depth 2.2; depth caudal peduncle 2.2 in head; eye in 

 head 4.3 tb 4.4; dorsal VIII, 15; anal III, 13; scales 110 to 115; 

 nose 2.7 to 2.9 in head; maxillary 1.6, equal to pectoral, width of 

 its extremity about equal to diameter of eye; interorbital space 

 arched, equal to eye. Back elevated, its highest point at front of 



