NO. 1562. THE CIRRHITOID FISHES OF JAPAN-JORDAN AND HERRE. 165 



Color of body olive brown, paler on belly, about nine parallel 

 oblique crossbars of deep brown, bright dark olive-orange in life, a 

 little narrower than the interspaces; the first extending across the eye 

 and cheek, the second from nape to base of pectorals, forming a jet- 

 black ])lotch on opercle, and a dark bar across base of pectoral; the 

 third, fourth, lifth, and sixth extend diagonally backward from dorsal 

 to belly, where they disappear; the seventh, eighth, and ninth bands 

 encircle'the body, the seventh including the posterior portion of the 

 soft dorsal; these three bands are confluent along the lateral line; 

 dorsal tin brown; with a darker basal shade and one or two pale spots 

 posteriorly. Caudal dark bi-own, with large round white spots about 

 twelve in number: two or three similar white blotches on caudal 

 peduncle: anal and ventrals black: pectorals uniform, pale brown 



FlC. 2.— GONIISTIUS ZONATUS. 



except the scaly base which is marked by a dusky crossbar; lips 

 blackish, edged with rosy biown; two dark lengthwise lines across 

 cheeks, from preorbital backward. 



This description is taken from a specimen s inches long from 

 Wakanoura. Larger examples ore similarly colored, but the dark 

 bands, always paler than in Goniistius zebra, grow fainter with age, 

 and orange specks sometimes appear between them. The spots on 

 the caudal tin are obsolete in some old examples. 



Of this common species, we have specimens from Tokyo, Misaki, 

 Wakanoura, Hakata, and Nagasaki. It is a food-flsh of moderate 

 importance and is called Takanohadai, or hawk-porgy, Tai l)eing the 

 common name applied to Pagrus major and all similar lishes, 



{zonatm, banded.) 



