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both dorsal fins by a brown spot at base of each ray. Dorsal and 

 caudal fins marked with brown on membranes, spinous dorsal bor- 

 dered by darker, an indistinct spot in upper axil of pectoral and 

 upper angle of opercle. Anal stippled with brown, other fins color- 

 less. Gill chambers lined with dark, peritoneum clear. 



The following is a list of measurements of the type-specimen in 

 hundredths of body length.'^ "Length of body 171 mm.; length of 

 head 28; depth of body 30; distance from snout to dorsal 71; depth 

 of caudal peduncle 10; length of snout 7; length of maxillary 12; 

 diameter of eye 6; width of interorbital space 8; length of base of 

 spinous dorsal 20; length of base of soft dorsal 43; length of second 

 dorsal spine 12; third dorsal spine 15; length of longest dorsal ray 

 12|; length of base of anal 8^; length of first spine 2; second spine 12; 

 length of first ray 16; length of longest pectoral 20; ventral 21 ; cau- 

 dal 22." Our specimens showed the following measurements: Head 

 27 to 30; diameter of eye 5 to 5^; length of third dorsal spine 15 to 17; 

 second anal spine 10 to 11. 



The species seems to be rather rare in Japan, the specimens exam- 

 ined by us from Tokyo, Awa, Matsushima, and Wakanoura being the 

 only ones known, unless it should prove that the specimen from the 

 Inland Sea of Japan recorded by Regan as Scisena albiflora belongs 

 to this species. 



The fish is called Nibe or Kuchi at Wakanoura. 



This is probably the species incorrectly recorded by Schlegel as 

 Scisena cuja. The Indian species, Scisena cuja, is similarly marked, 

 but the anal spine is much larger. 



(Named for Kakichi Mitsukuri.) 



3. SCIiENA ALBIFLORA (Richardson). 



Corvina albiflora Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 226; Canton. 



Scisena albiflora Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 284; Ann. Mag. 



Nat. Hist., 1873, p. 378; Chifu. — Steindachner, Denkschr. k. k. Akad. Wiss. 



Wien, 1892, vol. 59, p. 361; Shanghai. — Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 



vol. 15, 1905, p. 20; Inland Sea of Japan. 

 Pagrus macrocephalus Basilewsky, Ichth. Chin. Bor., 1855, p. 222, pi. 3, fig. 1; 



Tschili; Peking. (Coloration well shown; dorsal fin incorrect.) 

 Pseudoscisena mitsuhurii Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, 1907, 



p. 520; Port Arthur (not of Jordan and Snyder). 



Habitat. — Coasts of China, once recorded from the Inland Sea of 

 Japan. 



Description of specimen from Port Arthur, 320 mm. long with caudal. 

 Head 3§ in length without caudal, 4^ with caudal; depth 3^ in length, 

 4^ with caudal; maxillary 2 J in head; longitudinal diameter of eye 

 5; interorbital space 3f; breadth of preorbital between eye and 

 maxillaries § diameter of eye, 7 in head ; snout 4 in head ; dorsal rays 



o Copied from Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, p. 357. 



