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half that of the spines. Spinous dorsal inserted slightly in advance 

 of pectoral; dorsal spines strong, the fourth to seventh longest, 2.8 

 in head; caudal weakly emarginate or truncate; second and third 

 anal spines subequal, very strong, 3.5 in head; ventrals inserted 

 behind pectorals, 1.6 in head; pectorals longer than head, unsym- 

 nietrical, the upper rays shortened, the eighth to thirteenth con- 

 spicuously elongated, the tip of reflexed pectoral reaching nearly or 

 quite to base of anal. 



Our Japanese specimens are plain straw color in spirits, without 

 traces of the original color pattern. The types^ from Japan were 

 pink, with a yellow stripe above eye, a double yellow stripe through 

 it to tip of snout, and two faint oblique yellow streaks across opercle ; 

 upper half of body with numerous round greenish blotches, only 

 slightly darker than the ground color; anal with round yellow spots; 

 back of spinous dorsal with a few irregular blackish blotches; all fins 

 yellow outwardly. A specimen taken by Doctor Jordan at Honolulu 

 in 1905,'* and figured in color, does not differ in any essential respect 

 from this description. 



Of this species we have specimens as follows: Four from Misaki, 

 10 inches, two 8 inches, and one 6 inches, and one from Awa, 8 inches. 

 A specimen from Honolulu figured in color by Jordan and Snyder 

 agrees with the Japanese fish. The species is rare, and lives in rather 

 deep water. 



(Named for Prof. II. Schlegel of Leyden, the accomplished author 

 of a large part of the Fauna Japonica.) 



IB. Genus ANTHIAS Bloch. 



Anthias Bloch, Ausliindische Fische, vol. 6, 1792, p. 97 (anthias). 



Aylopon Rafinesque, Carattere di Alcuni Nuovi Generi, 1810, p. 52 (anthias); 



the generic name Anthias regarded as preoccupied by Anthia, a genus of 



beetles (1801). 

 Sacura Jordan and Richardson, new subgenus {margaritaceus). 



Body oblong, strongly compressed; scales moderate or rather 

 large, ciliate; lateral line complete, angulate below last rays of dorsal, 

 the tubes straight or with an ascending tubule, and extending along 

 nearly the entire scale; jaws and front scaly; mouth large; maxil- 

 lary surface scaly; jaws with villiform teeth, intermixed with curved 

 canines; a small group of teeth on the vomer and a narrow series on 

 each palatine; tongue smooth or with a few teeth; head entirely 

 scaled; preopercle serrate, the teeth near the angle enlarged, with- 

 out antrorse teeth on the lower border; opercle with 2 or 3 spines; 7 

 branchiostegals ; gill-rakers very long and slender; dorsal fin not 

 notched, with X, 12 to 18 rays, the spinous portion about equal to 

 the soft; third dorsal spine produced; anal short. III, 6 to 8; 



a Jordan and Snyder, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 26, 1906, pi. 12, fig. 1. 



