NO. 1714. JAPANESE SEA BASS.— JORDAN AND RICHARDSON. 433 



5. BRYTTOSUS KAWAMEBARI (Temminck and Schlegel). 



MIDZUKITRI (water chestnut burr); KAWAMEBARtX (river big-eye); YOTSTJME (four eyes); a 

 OYANIRAMI (parent scorner).') 



Serranus kawamebari Temminck and Schlegel, Faun. Japon., Pise, 1842, p. 5 



(Japan). — Gunther, Cat. Fishes, vol. 1, 1859, p. 107 (after Temminck and 



Schlegel). 

 Sinipcrca? kawamebari Boulbnger, Cat. Fishes, vol. 1, 1895, p. 138 (notes on 



type-specimen in Leyden Museum furnished by Doctor Reuvens). 

 Brytlosus kawamebari Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, 1901, 



p. 354, pi. 12 (Yamagawa, above Bay of Shimabara). 



Head 2.5; depth 2.45; depth caudal peduncle 2.5 in head; eye 3.8 

 to 4.5; dorsal XII, 12; anal III, 9; scales 10-44 to 46-18; nose 3.4 

 to 3.7; maxillary past eye in largest specimens, slightly short of 

 back of eye in smaller, 1.9 to 2.2 in head; width of extremity of 

 maxillary nearly equal to eye; interorbital space little elevated, 

 slightly convex, equal to eye. Body short, robust, moderately com- 

 pressed; back moderately elevated, highest under front of spinous 

 dorsal; profile nearly straight; muzzle pointed; lower jaw slightly 

 shorter than upper; villiform teeth in bands in jaws and on vomer 

 and palatines; some of the anterior teeth in both jaws slightly 

 enlarged; no true canines; posterior nostril slightly smaller; pre- ' 

 opercle without marked angle, broadly rounded, the upper limb rather 

 finely serrate, lower margin sinuous; opercle with 2 fiat spines, the 

 lower longest; the flap emarginate benind; gill rakers short, about 

 half length of corresponding filaments, 7 besides 3 rudiments on lower 

 limb of outer arch; scales moderate, cycloid; opercles and cheeks 

 scaled, rest of head without scales; lateral line complete, the tubes 

 straight. Dorsal origin halfway between gill opening and base of 

 pectoral; longest dorsal spine (fifth) 3 to 3.5 in head; longest soft 

 ray 2,2; caudal broadly rounded; first anal spine less than half of 

 second, second and third more than half longest soft rays; pectorals 

 rounded, 1.9 to 2.1 in head; ventrals rounded, short of vent, 1.75 

 to 1.9 in head. 



Color in spirits dark bluish brown, with traces (plain in very young) 

 of 5 or 6 dusky cross-bands on posterior two-tliirds of body and 

 caudal peduncle. Cheeks crossed by 3 wavy lines of duskj^ radiating 

 from eye; a conspicuous round black blotch on margin of opercular 

 flap between the spines; spinous dorsal, anal, f\,nd ventrals dusky; 

 soft dorsal, caudal, and anal paler, with light spots in rows or in 

 mottling; pectorals pale; edges of branchiostegals dusky. 



Here described from 11 specimens, 1^ to 4% inches long, from the 

 following locahties: Yama liiver (Yamagawa) near Funayado, 10; 



o Referring to the black opercular spot. 



6 From oya, parents and nirami, to stare offensively. This four-eyed fish is sup- 

 posed to be guilty of this provoking offense intolerable in Japanese customs. 

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