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VOL. xxxin. 



i8. CHELIDONICHTHYS KUMU (Lesson and Garnot.) 

 HOKO (Sword), KUROHOBO (Black Gurnard). 



Trigla humu Lesson and Garnot, Voy. Coquille, Poiss., 1830, p. 214, pi. xix 

 (New Zealand, "le grande Bale des lies"). — Cuvier and Valenciennes, 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, p. 50 (advance printing of description of Lesson 

 and Garnot). — Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, 1842, p. 27 (New Zealand; Bay 

 of Islands). — Temminck and Schlegel, Faun. Japon. Pise, 1843, p. 37, 

 pi. XIV (seas of Japan). — Bleeker, Niewe Nalez. Ichth. Japan, 1857, p. 74 

 (Nagasaki). — Gxjnther, Cat. Fishes, II, 1860, p. 204 (New Zealand to coast 

 of China).— Namiye, Class. Cat., 1881, p. 101 (Tokyo).— Macle ay. Cat. 

 Austral. Fishes, I, 1881, p. 225 (Port Jackson). — Nystrom, Svensk. Vet.- 

 Akad. Handl-., 13, IV, No. 4, 1887, p. 21 (Nagasaki).— Steindachner and 

 DoDERLEiN, Beitr. Kennt. Fische Japan's, 1887, IV, p. 265 (no locality). — 

 IsHiKAWA, Cat. Fishes Imp. Mus. (Tokyo), 1897, p. 47 (Tokyo). 



Trigla spinosa McClelland, Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist., IV, p. 396, pi. xxii, fig. 2 

 (China). — Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 218 (Chusan). 



(?) Trigla pictipinnis K AW, Archiv. fiirNaturgesch., 1873. p. 87 (Barbados) (locality 

 erroneous). 



Triglakumu dorsomaculata STEn<!DACHi<i¥.R, Ich. Beitr., V. p. 168, 1876 (Chi-fu). 



Habitat. — Japan, north to Aomori ; China ; also from AustraHa and 

 New Zealand, where it is one of the common food fishes. 



Head, 3.3; depth, 5.25 to 5.60; D. IX-16; A. 15 or 16; eye, 4.5 to 

 4.6; interorbital'^ space, 5.8 to 6; snout, 2.2; maxillary, 2.3; second 

 dorsal spine, 1.8; pectoral, 0.6 to 0.8; ventral, 1.2. 



A fidl comparison of Japanese and Australian specimens is shown 

 in the following; table: 



Dimensions. 



Port Jack- 

 son, 5 to 8| 

 inches. 



MisaM 

 Sagami, 

 7i inches. 



Tokyo, 

 9 inches. 



Head 



Depth 



Dorsal 



Anal 



Scales 



Eye 



iriterorbital space . . 



Snout 



Maxillary 



Second dorsal spine 



Pectoral 



Ventral 



3.50 



5.00 



IX-15 



.15 



3.30 



5.25 



IX-16 



.16 



3.25 



5.60 



IX-16 



.15 



4.33 

 7.10 

 2.25 

 2.20 

 1.66 

 0.75 

 1.16 



4.50 

 6.00 

 2.16 

 2.30 

 1.80 

 0.60 

 1.16 



4.60 

 5.80 

 2.20 

 2.30 

 1.80 

 0.80 

 1.20 



Snout rather long, as a rule, with an evident emargination in front, 

 the angles serrated and produced over the maxillaries a distance about 

 equal to their width (toothed portion); interorbital space concave, 



o Japanese and Australian specimens varied as follows in width of interorbital space: 

 Six specimens, Tokyo: 5.80, 6.10, 6.20, 6.30, 6.30, 6.50 (5 to 8 inches); 2 specimens, 

 Port Arthur: 6.3: 6.6 (8 inches); 2 specimens, Tsuruga: 6.2, 6.3 (5 inches); 1 specimen, 

 Misaki: 6.3, 6.6 (7 inches): 1 specimen. Port Jackson: 7.10 (82 inches); 1 specimen, 

 Port Jackson: 7 (5 inches); 1 specimen, Port Jackson: 6.50 (6^ inches). 



