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5. GONIISTIUS ZEBRA (Doderlein) . 



CheilodacfyluK gibboms STEiXDACHNERand Doderlein, Fisehe Japans, II, 1888, p. 

 27, pi. VII, fig. 2 (Tokyo; not of Richardson; the sj-nonyniy given being all 

 incorrect). — Nystrom, Svensk. Vet. Ak., Handl., XIII, 1887, p. 18 

 (Nagasaki). — Jordan and Snyder, Check List, 1901, p. 84. 



Cheilodactylns zebra Doderlein, Fisehe Japans, II, 1881, p. 29 (Tokyo; same 

 specimen; a provisional name.) 



Hahltat. — Coast of eTapan, known from Tokyo, Wakanoura, and 

 Nagasaki. 



Head 2f in length; depth ?,\. Eye 3^ in head; snout about 8; inter- 

 orbital width 4. D. XVII, 32. a! Ill, 8. Scales 10-70-15. 



Body oblong, much compressed, the lower protile relatively straight, 

 the upper much compressed, and elevated forward; a deep notch at 

 the nape and another at the nostril; mouth small; lips thick; teeth in 

 jaws only, the outer a little enlarged; a blunt projection over each eye 

 growing larger with age, and one at the nostril; snout and preoi'bital 

 scaleless; top of head, cheeks, and opercles with small scales; preopercle 

 entire; opercle ending in two flat points; gill-rakers 12+5. 



Dorsal deeply notched, the fourth spine \^ in head; anal spines mod- 

 erate, the second thickest; last soft rays rapidly shortened, the longest 

 14 in head; pectoral longer than head, reaching vent; ventrals mod- 

 erate, inserted well behind pectorals; caudal deeply and evenly forked. 



Body rosy brown, with oblique cross bands of deep brown or rather 

 orange black; three of these on the head, the second across eye and 

 base of pectoral, the third forming a large blotch on the opercle; 

 fourth including first three dorsal spines and extending across to ven- 

 trals fading below, the ventral fins ])eing jet Ijlack; fifth and sixth 

 bands extending on dorsal and ceasing near middle of side, the sixth 

 confluent below with seventh; seventh fully confluent with eighth, 

 leaving only three spots of the pale ground color between them; 

 seventh and eighth not extending on dorsal, but covering almost all 

 of caudal peduncle and the lower half of caudal fin. Anal fin a little 

 dusky; fins pale except where crossed by the extension of the dark 

 cross bands. 



From Steindachner's excellent figure our specimen difl'ers in the 

 greater extension downward of the fourth band, and in the partial 

 separation of the seventh and eighth bands. Of this species we have 

 in hand a single specimen 10 inches long. It was found in the market 

 of Yokohama by Pierre L. Jouy. A specimen was also seen at Waka- 

 noura. It is otherwise known only from the specimen of Steindachner, 

 and that recorded by Nystrom. The species is certainly distinct from 

 Goniistius gihho.sus (Richardson) of the coast of Australia, with which 

 Steindachner has confounded it, and probably from Goniistius vestitus 

 (Castelnau) and Goniistius quadricornis (Giinther), both Australian 

 species. Goniistius vittatus Garrett, of Hawaii, which Steindachner 



