NO. 1513. 



OOATFISHES OF JAPAN— SNYDER. 



91 



Preoperc'lo smooth; opercle with a small, flat spine at angle. Head 

 completely scaled, the scales of snout, maxillary, and chin deeply 

 embedded; scales of body weakly ctenoid; 2 rows above lateral line, 6 

 between lateral line and insertion of anal; dorsal and anal naked; 

 small scales on caudal. Pores of lateral line with 5 or branches. 

 First dorsal spine minute and closely adnate to second; the third long- 

 est, 1| in head. Height of soft dorsal equal to that of anal, 2j\, in 

 head. Caudal deepl}^ forked, the lobes pointed, about e({ual in length 

 to head. Pectorals and ventrals extending an equal distance poster- 

 iorly, their length lir in head. 



Color in spirits dark brownish; an indetinitely defined dark stripe 

 extending from snout through eye, along lateral line at least to end 

 of spinous dorsal; a narrow light stripe below the dark one; a dusky 

 saddle across caudal peduncle. 



Fig. '2.— FsEi'DUPENErs ischyriis. 



The species is represented by the type only, a poorly preserved 

 specimen from Tokyo, No. 9790, Stanford Universit}' collection. 

 Length, 195 mm. 



This species is closely related to Pmudupeneus slgnatus (Giinther). 

 It seems to differ in having a much deeper caudal peduncle and a 

 smaller eye, distinguishing characters which appear at once when the 

 specimen is compared with one of P. .v/r/;/^/^^/.s- from Lord Howe Island. 



{i(y;X^^P''>?^ robust.) 



3. PSEUDUPENEUS SPILURUS (Bleeker). 



Vpeneussp'durasYihKEK^ii., Fauna Ichth. Jap., 1854, p. 395 (Nagasaki); Verh. Bat. 

 Gen., XXVI, 1854, p. 68, pi. ir, fig. 2 (Japan). — Jordan and Snyder, Prelim. 

 Check List, 1901, p. 84.— Gunther, Cat. Fishes, I, 1859, p. 406 (copied). 



Ilahitat. — Southern Japan. 



Head 3| in length to base of caudal; depth 3; depth of caudal ped- 

 uncle 8; eye 5^ in head; width interorlntal space 3; length snout 2; 

 maxillary 2|; D. VIll-9; A. 7; scales in lateral line 29. 



