N0.15S1. FISHES OF JAPAX-JORDAN AND BICHARD80N. 043 



8. BEMBRAS JAPONICUS Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Bembras japoniciis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, p. 282, 

 pi. Lxxxiii (Japan, Coll. Langsdorf). — Temminck and Schlegel, Faun. 

 Japon., Pise, 1843, p. 41, pi. xvi, fig. 8 (Nagasaki). — Richardson, Ichtli. 

 China and Japan, 1846, p. 217.— GiJNTHER, Cat. Fishes, II, 1860, p. 191 

 (Japan, stuffed specimen). — Bleeker, Enum. Poiss. Japon., 1879, p. 12 

 (Nagasaki). — Ishikawa, Cat. FishesImp.Mus., Tokyo, 1897, p.48(Boshu). — 

 Steindachner and Doderlein, Beitr. Kennt. Fische Japan's (IV), 1887, 

 p. 261 (Tokyo Bay).— Smith and Pope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXI, 1906, 

 p. 488 (Susaki; Urado; Kochi). 



Habitat. — South Japan and nortli to Tokyo. 



Head 3.5 in length; D. VI-12; A. 1-4; scales 55; muzzle longer 

 than eye; jaws subequal; infraorbital ridge with 4 denticulations, 

 directed backward. 



Color clear red, more or less mottled or spotted; the dorsal fins 

 with greenish spots. 



We have no specimens of this rare species. The above descrip- 

 tion is condensed from the accounts of Schlegel and Cuvier. The 

 senior writer has, however, examined a specimen from Boshu in the 

 Imperial Museum at Tokyo. It was brick red wdth distinct spots, 

 D. X-12, A. 14. 



(japonicus, Japanese.) 



5. BAMBRADON Jordan and Richardson, new genus. 



Dorsal spines VI; anal rays 14 or 15; lateral line probably trav- 

 ersing middle'* of side, as in Bembras and Bembradium, with which 

 this genus is apparently more closely allied than with Parabembras; 

 top of head smooth, without spines or ridges. 



A single species, from the waters of Japan. 



{f3aiA(3padoov, a grasshopper.) 



Type of genus. — Bambradon Isetns. 



g. BAMBRADON L^EVIS (Nystrom.) 



Bembras Ixvis Nystrom, Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 13, IV, 1887, No. 4, p. 26 

 (Nagasaki). 



Upper ])art of head wholly without spines and ridges; body slen- 

 derer than in Bembras japonicus; breadth behind head somew^hat 

 greater than the depth; D. VI-14; A. 15; P. 23; scales 40; eye 4 in 

 head; snout 3 in head; lower jaw projecting considerably beyond 

 upper; second dorsal spine longest, somewhat longer than body's 

 depth; anal slightl}' longer than soft dorsal; scales thin, ctenoid. 



Color brownish, with a row of dusky spots along body's lower edge; 

 under parts dirty white; a black blotch at front of spinous dorsal; 

 anal pale, with a dusky band at base; pectorals brownish, without 

 spots or bands. 



" Direction of lateral line not stated by Nystrom. 



