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pt. 4, No. 4, 1887, p. 5 (Nagasaki).— Namiye, Class. Cat., 1881, p. 92 (Tokyo).— 

 IsHiKAWA, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 57 (Hokkaido). 

 Lateolabrax japonicus Bleeker, Nieuwe Nalez., Japan, 1857, p. 53 (Japan). — 

 BouLENGER, Cat. Fishes, vol. 1, 1895, p. 123 (China; Japan; Formosa, 

 etc).— Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, 1901, p. 353 

 (Tokyo).— Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 29, 1905, p. 521 

 (Shanghai). — Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, 1906, p. 

 517 (Port Arthur). 



Head 3.3; depth 4 to 4.4; depth caudal peduncle 3.3 in head; eye 

 5.2 to 5.4; nose 3.75; dorsal XII— I or II, 12; anal III, 8; scales 14 

 to 17 — 103 to 106 — 24 to 26; pores 97; maxillary extending nearly to 

 back of eye, 2.2 in head; width of its extremity about three-fifths of 

 eye; interorbital space little elevated, flattish, 1.1 times eye. Form 

 slender, moderately compressed, greatest thickness of body one-half 

 depth; back little elevated, highest under third dorsal spine; profile 

 straight from occiput; muzzle sharp; lower jaw projecting for a dis- 

 tance equal to width of pupil. Jaws, vomer, and palatines with bands 

 of villiform teeth; tongue toothless; nostrils subequal; preoperculum 

 with a salient angle; above the angle 2 or 3 strong points, directed back- 

 ward and downward; below it 2 or 3 antrorse teeth; operculum end- 

 ing in a moderate, flattish spine, above which is a second short bhmt- 

 ish point; gill rakers 14 to 16 + 2 or 3 rudiments. Top of head, 

 cheeks, opercles, and suborbitals scaled; maxillarv and lower jaw 

 smooth. Origin of spinous dorsal midway between pectorals and 

 ventrals; longest dorsal spine the fifth, 2 in head; longest soft ray 

 2.6 in head; caudal emarginate, its corners rounded; pectoral 2 in 

 head; ventral 1.8. 



Color in spirits silvery, olive to purplish on upper parts; an inter- 

 rupted black line or row of spots along each side of base of spinous 

 dorsal; an irregular row of small black spots midway between dorsal 

 and lateral line, and a third irregular row extending along or slightly 

 above lateral line; these spots are faint or absent in many specimens; 

 membranes of spinous dorsal edged with dusky and with two to 

 four longitudinal rows of irregular dark blotches; soft dorsal simi- 

 larly marked, but with the blotches less diffuse. 



Specimens from Port Arthur have the spots on sides larger and 

 plainer than in Japanese specimens. 



Here described from specimens as follows: Yokohama, 1 specimen, 

 12 inches; Tokyo, 14, 3 to 10 inches; same, 2, 8 to 9 inches; Waka- 

 noura, 3, 4 to 11 inches; Kurume, 49, 3 to 6 inches; Chikugo Kiver, 

 Kurume, 1, 11 inches; Matsushima, 3, 6 to 8 inches; Kagoshima, 1, 

 8 inches. It was also seen at Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Onomichi, 

 Tsuruga, Hakata, and Kobe. It is common along the whole coast 

 of Japan, being one of the most highly valued food fish, like its ally, 

 the striped bass of America. It is known everywhere as Suzuki. 

 The young enter the streams. 



