NO. 1714. JAPANESE SEA BASS.— JORDAN AND RICHARDSON. . 439 



opercles scaled; rest of head, including jaws and chin, without scales; 

 top of head and suborbital region with strong bony rugosities, 

 showing through the thin skin; lateral line continuous, high, and 

 strongly curved under back of dorsal. Spinous dorsal low, the longest 

 spine (3d or 4th) 2.8 in head; longest soft ray 2.5; cau(hil subtruncate, 

 slightly rounded; anal spines short, the second and third spines less 

 than half length of first ray; ventrals below pectorals, close together, 

 short of vent, 1.8 to 2 in head; pectorals rounded, 2.2 in head. 



Color in spirits purplish brown, somewhat paler below; a yellow 

 mid-dorsal stripe, including lower half of spinous dorsal and base 

 of soft dorsal, extending backward on top of caudal peduncle to 

 its end, and forward, after bifurcating under front of spinous dorsal, 

 on each side of head, through eye, to end of snout; tips of ventral 

 spines and outer half of ventrals blackish; other fins dusky. 



Here described from two specimens 6 and 7 inches long, the first 

 from the sea off Okinose (presented b}^ the Imperial University), 

 the second from Misaki, both fishing towns being on Sagami Bay. 

 This handsome fish is rare in Japan, being taken occasionally in the 

 Kuro Shiwo from Tokyo southward. 



(Named for C. J. Temminck, of Jjcyden, the colleague of Professor 

 Schlegel.) 



8. Genus PIKEA Steindachner. 



Pikea Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wien, vol. 71, 1874, p. 375 {lunulata). 

 Labracopsis Doderlein, in Steindachner and Doderlein, Denkschr. Akad. Wien, 

 vol. 47, 1883, p. 235 {japonicus). 



Body elongate, compressed; mouth large, protractile; maxillary 

 with supplemental bone; jaws with broad bands of villiform teeth, 

 some of the inner ones longer and depressible; vomer and palatines 

 with villiform teeth; tongue smooth; preopercle ciliated or denticu- 

 lated; opercle with three flat points; gill-rakers rather long (japonica); 

 branchiostegals 7; scales rather small, ctenoid, striated; head 

 entirely covered with cycloid scales; lateral line complete; dorsal 

 fins confluent, with a broad shallow notch of variable depth; dorsal 

 spines 8; spinous and soft dorsals subequal in length; anal III, 8; 

 caudal emarginate; ventrals a little before base of pectorals, close 

 together, each with a slender spine; pectorals pointed, the upper 

 rays longest; base of dorsal, caudal, and anal scaly. 



"Vertebrae 24 (10 + 14)." 



Coasts of Japan, South Seas, and Hawaii; 3 species known. Size 

 small. 



The subgenus Labracopsis Doderlein (japonicus) differs slightly 

 from Pikea maculata, Pikea lunulata (Mauritius) and Pikea aurora 

 Jordan and Evermann (Hawaii) in the finer and more regular dentic- 



