NO. 1714. JAPANESE SEA BASS.—JVRDAN AND RICHARDSON. 



451 



spinous dorsal, and extending on its membranes. Specimens from 

 Kobe, Onomichi, and one from Nagasaki have the light spots faint 

 or absent and have the ventrals and anal dusky to blackish. 



Of this species we have fifteen specimens, two 9.5 inches long 

 from Nagasaki; nine 5 to 9 inches, from Onomichi; one 8.5 inches, 

 from Kobe; two 7 to 8 inches, from Wakanoura; two 6 inches, from 

 Hiroshima; one 7.5 inches, from Shimonoseki. It was recorded also 

 from Tsuruga and Hakata. 



It is the most abundant Japanese species of Epinephelus, being 

 found almost every day in the markets from Tokyo southward. 



(alca, red; ara, bass.) 



15. EPINEPHELUS FARIO (Thunberg). 



I'ercafarioTnvNBERG, NyaHandl., vol. 14, 1792, p. 296, p\. 9 (Nagasaki). — Bloch 



and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 323. 

 Epinephelus japonicus ("I!,pinGph.elua du Japon") Krusenstehn, Reise, 1810, 



pi. 64, fig. 2 (Japan). 



Fig. 9.— Epinephelus fario. 



Serranus trimaculatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poisa., vol. 2, 1828, 

 p. 331 (after Krusenstern). — Temminck and Schlegel, Faun. Japon., Pise, 

 1842, p. 8 (Jajjan). — Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 232 (Japan, from 

 Burger). — Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1865, p. 110 (synonymical 

 note based on examination of type-specimen). — Kner, Novara, Fische, vol. 1, 

 1865, p. 18 (Hongkong and Java). — Bleeker, Bijdr, Japan, vol. 4, p. 8. — 

 GiJNTHER, Cat. Fishes, vol. 1, 1859, p. 109 (part) (China and Japan). 



Epinephelus trimaculatus Boulenger, Cat. Fishes, vol. 1, 1895, p. 221 (China). — 

 Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, 1901, p. 354 (Tokyo). 



Serranus fasciatomaculosus Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1865, p. Ill (Japan, 

 based on Bleeker's S. trimaculatus, Bijdr, Japan, vol. 4, p. 8). 



Serranus ura Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 332 

 (Nagasaki), (ura, misspelling of ara, according to Peters, 1865.) 



Serranus ara Temminck and Schlegel, Faun. Japon., Pise, 1842, p. 8 (Nagasaki). 



(Coasts of China and southern Japan.) 



Head 2.6; depth 2.8; e^^e 5.8 in head, 1.37 in pectoral; dorsal XI, 

 16 or 17; anal III, 8; scales 13-98-40; nose 4.25 in head; maxillary 



