NO. 1?14. JAPANESE SEA BASS.— JORDAN AND RICHARDSON. 473 



pectorals and ventrals shorter than head. Color in alcohol rosy pink 

 lighter below; all fins yellowish. (Smith and Pope.) 



At present known only from the type, a specimen 110 mm. long, 

 collected in Urado Bay, in Tosa, in 1903. 



(Named for H. Niwa, director of the Fishery Experiment Station 

 at Kochi.) 



SUMMARY. 



Family Serranid^. 



1. Malakichlhys Doderlein, 1883. 



1. griseus Doderlein, 18815; kSagami Bay. 



2. Diploprion Kiihl and Van Hasselt, 1828. 



2. hifaticiatiis Kulil and Van Hasselt, 1828; Hakata, Wakanoura, Nagasaki. 



3. Lateolahrax Bleeker, 1857. 



3. japonicus (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 1828; Same, Matsushima, Tokyo, Yoko- 

 hama, Chikugo River, Kagoshima, Nagasaki, Kobe, Hiroshima, Onomichi, Hakata, 

 Tsuruga, Port Arthur. 



4. Niphon Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1828. 



4. spinosus Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1828; Mi aki, Tokyo. 



5. Brijttosvs Jordan and Snyder, 1901. 



5. kawamebari (Temminck and Schlegel), 1842; Yamagawa River, Funayado, 

 Yobe R., Funayado. 



G. Stereolepis Ayres, 1859. 



6. isrhinagi (Hilgendorf), 1878; Otaru, Hakodate, Tokyo, Yokohama, Misaki. 



7. Aulacocephalus Temminck and Schlegel, 1842. 



7. temmincki Blacker, 1857; Okinose, Misaki. 



8. Pikea Steindachner, 1874. 

 § Pikea. 



8. maculata Steindachner and Doderlein, 1883. 



§ Labracopsis Doderlein, 1883. 



9. japonica Doderlein, 1883; Sagami Bay. 



9. Plectropomus (Cuvier), Oken, 1817. 



10. viaculatus (Bloch), 1790. 



10. EpinephelusBloch,n93. 



11. chlorostigma (Cuvier and Valenciennes), 1828; Misaki, Wakanoura, Nagasaki. 



12. eras pedurus Jordan and Richardson, 1909; Kagoshima. 



13. megachir (Richardson), 1846. 



14. akaara (Temminck and Schlegel), 1842; Tsuruga, Hakata, Shimonoseki, Waka- 

 noura, Hiroshima, Kobe, Onomichi, Nagasaki. 



15. fario (Thunberg), 1792; Wakanoura, Nagasaki. 



16. latifasciatus (Temminck and Schlegel), 1842. 



