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KEY TO BPECIES. 



a. Body with about 9 oblique dark brown cross-band?, two on the head, the second 

 across opercle, and base of pectoral; membrane of opercle jet-black; a 

 lengthwise band along dorsal fin; ventral fin pale; caudal with several 

 round white spots. D. XVIII, 32. A. Ill, 8. Scales 60. Fourth dori-al 

 spine If in head zonattis, 4. 



aa. Body with 7 oblique jet-black bands; 3 of these on the head, the second extend- 

 ing across eye and across base of pectoral, the seventh covering most of 

 caudal peduncle and lower lobe of cautlal fin, ventral fin black; fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth bands extending across dorsal fin. Dorsal rays XVII, 34, 

 Anal III, 8. Scales, 70; fourth dorsal spine 1 J in head zebra, 5. 



4. GONIISTIUS ZONATUS Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



TAKANOHADAI HAWK-PORGY), TAKAPA iHAWKLET), KIKORI WOOD-CHOPPER). 



Labre dii Japan Krusenstern, Reise, Atlas, 1809, p. 63, pi. xliii, fig. 1 (Japan). 



Cheilodactylus zonatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1830, V. 

 p. 365, pi. cxxix (Japan). — Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1843, p. 64, 

 pi. XXIX (Nagasaki). — Richardson, Ich. China., 1846, p. 239 (Canton); Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, London, 1850, p. 66.— Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2), 1851, 

 VII, p. 282. — Bleeker, Nieuwe Nalez., Japan, 1857, p. 83 (Nagasaki).— 

 GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish., II, 1860, p. 82 (Canton; Japan). — Steindachner and 

 DoDERLEiN, Fische Japans, II, 1881, p. 27 (Tokyo). — Namiye, Class. Cat., 

 1881, p. 95 (Tokyo).— Nystrom, Svensk. Vet. Ak. Handl., XIII, 1887, p. 

 18 (Nagasaki). — Ishikawa and Matsuura, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 52 (Tokyo, 

 Riu Kin Islands). — Jordan and Snydek, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 

 1900, p. 358 (Tokyo); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1900, p. 752 (Yoko- 

 hama); Check List, 1901, p. 84 (Yokohama). 



Habitat. — Coasts of Japan and southern China, north to Tokyo, 

 g-enerall}" common. 



Head ?>J in length to base of caudal; depth 2f ; eye -if in head; 

 I). XVII, 32; A. Ill, 8; P. 13, with 6 rays simple; scales 9-60-16. 



Body oblong, deep, compressed, the lower profile nearly straight, 

 the upper compressed and highest forward; steep and nearly straight 

 from tip of snout to front of dorsal. Mouth small, the lips pro- 

 duced, thick and fleshy; small teeth in jaws only; 2 fringed flaps over 

 the anterior nostril, the posterior flap double the size of the anterior 

 one; posterior nostril without flaps or processes; interobital space 

 broad, 4 in head; snout and preorbital scaleless; top of head, cheeks 

 and opercles with small or minute scales; preopercle entire; opercle 

 entire, rounded. Branchiostegals 6; gill-rakers 14+8, short, stout. 

 Dorsal deeply notched, second spine equal to diameter of e3^e, high, 

 about 2 in head; anal spines rather small, the third 3y in head; last 

 soft rays much shortened, the longest a trifle more than 2 in head; 

 pectoral almost as long as head, not quite reaching vent; ventrals 

 moderate inserted opposite end of lowest simple pectoral ray and 

 reaching beyond vent; caudal deeply and evenly forked. Scales mod- 

 erate, cycloid; base of pectoral scaled; a scaly sheath about base of 

 anal and dorsal; caudal largely scaled. 



