NO. 1523. HISTIOPTERID FISHES OF JAPAN— JORDAN. 239 



3. QUINQUARIUS JAPONICUS (Doderlein). 



TSUBODAI I BOTTLE-MOUTH PORGY). 



Pentaceros japonicus Doderlein, in Steiiidachner and Diklerlein, Fische Japans, 

 II, 1882, p. 8, pi. V, figs. 1 and 2 (Tokyo). 



Habitat. — Southern Japan. 



Head, ^ in length; depth, 1|. B. 7. D. XI, 14. A V, 9. Scales, 

 47 to 49. Eye, o in head. Anterior profile nearly .straight, the snout 

 pointed. Third dorsal spine, li in head; soft dorsal rounded, its lon- 

 gest rays about -> in head. Second anal spine, 2^ in head; soft anal 

 rounded. Color, shining silver gray; paler below ventrals blackish 

 Doderlein). 



The species is known from two specimens, 19 to 21 cm. in length, 

 found in the market of Tokyo b}^ Doctor Doderlein. It is probably 

 from Misaki or Awa, outside the heads. 



SUMMARY. 



1. Ifixtiopleno^ f^vhlegel 1843. 



1. typns Schlegel, 1848; IMisaki. 



2. Evistkts Jordan 1907. 



2. acutirostris (Schlegel), 1843; Yokohama. 



3. (jumquarius Jordan 1907. 



3. japonicus (Doderlein), 1882. 



NOTE ON TEPIIKITIS OR VELIFRACTA. 



I ma}^ here note that the name Tephritis Giinther (1862), applied to 

 a genus of Chinese flounders, is preoccupied among flies {Tejjhr'dis 

 Fabricius 1794). The genus of flounders ma}" be named YelifTada., using 

 a term applied by Richardson to the type-species, Velifracta sinensis 

 (Lacepede). A good figure of this species is published by Jordan and 

 Scale, in Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci., X, 1905, pi. xi. 



