NOTE ON OTOHTME— JORDAN AND STARKS. 133 



reach bovond tho others. Dorsal rays slender, oiice divided, i-ather 

 widely spaced; the loiioest equal to vertical diameter of orbit. Anal 

 as hio-h as soft dorsal and extondinu' a little posterior to it. Caudal 

 lunate, its ang'les sharp. Pec-toral reaching to opposite base of third 

 anal ray, the three detached rays slender and pointed, the upper one 

 but little shorter than the other pectoral rays, the lower one not 

 reaching to tip of ventral. Ventral not quite reaching to vent. 



Our specimen is apparently badly faded. It is now light gray 

 above, abruptl}" white below middle of side; dark brown round and 

 elliptical spots are scattered sparsely and irregularly over upper part 

 of side. Spinous dorsal with a large clear-cut dark brown spot from 

 fourth to sixth spines, tin otherwise transparent and colorless; soft 

 dorsal with a row of brown spots, one oil each ray; ventrals, anal, 

 caudal, and detached pectoral rays colorless. Outer surface of pec- 

 toral with white rays and dark brown membrane ))ordered with white 

 behind; when tin is closed the white of the rays onl}^ shows; inner sur- 

 face more uniform dark brown and darker than outer surface, the 

 rays lighter only toward their tips, the white border at posterior mar- 

 gin of tin more conspicuous, two rows of irregular milk-white spots 

 across tin on the rays, encroaching on the membrane l)ut slightly; the 

 anterior row of large irregular spots the posterior of only three or 

 four small round spots. 



The specimen from which this description is drawn was brought 

 by Mr. Pierre L. Jouy, from Yokohama. It })robably came from 

 Misaki or Awa. outside the Bay of Tokyo. It is 195 mm. in entire 

 length. 



The species of Triglida^ known from Japanese -waters are the fol- 

 lowing, most of them described by Jordan and Starks in the Bulletin 

 of the U. S. Fish Commission for 1902: 



1. Otohinie hemistlcta (Schlegel) Yokohama. 



2. ClieUdonichtlujs. kumu (Lesson and Garnot). {Trigla spinosa McClelland, Jour. 

 Calc. Nat. Hist., IV, p. 396. Chelcdonicldlnjs pundipinnis Kaup, Aniiiv. f. Naturg. 

 1873. p. 87. The locality stated, evidently by error, as Barbados. ) 



Found throughout southern and middle .Japan, very common; also in New Zealand 

 and Australia. 



3. Lepidotrigla guntheri Hilgendorf. ( Lepidotrigia longispinis Steindachner. ) Suruga 

 Bay, Totomi Bay, Yokohama. 



4. Lepidotrigla abyssalis Jordan and vStarks, Suruga Bay. 



5. Lepidotrigla smithi Regan. (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1905, p. 22.) Inland Sea of 

 Japan; not seen by us. 



6. LepidotrigUimirroptera Gunther. [Lepidotrigla atrnncJiii Steindachm^r. ) Aomori, 

 Hakodate, Tsuruga, Matsushima, Hiroshima. 



7. Lepidotrigla japonica (Bleeker). {.^ Lepidotrigla serridens mWgendovi) Misaki. 



8. LepidotrigU( alafa (Houttuyn), [Trigla burgeri Schlegel), Nagasaki, etc. 



