254 PROCEEDINGS OF THE XATIOXAL MUSEUM. vol.39. 



This species was not seen by us. It must be rare in Japan, as the 

 single specimen recorded bj Steindachner and Doderlein is the only 

 one known from outside of India. The specimen brought from Naga- 

 saki by Professor Thunberg and roughly described by Ilouttuyn must 

 be the same, as is shown by the black pectoral spot, compared to the 

 blotch on the haddock. 



(argentatus, silvered.) 



5. SCIiENA SCHLEGELI (Bleeker). 

 ISHIMOCHI (STONE-POSSESSOR). 



Corvina sina Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poissons, 1843, p. 58, 



pi. 24, fig. 2; Nagasaki, bays of the southwest coast of Japan. — Bleeker, Verh. 



Batavia Gen., vol.26, 1857, p. 82; Nagasaki. (Not CojTina sma of Cuvier 



and Valenciennes, a Chinese species.) 

 Pseudoscisena schlegdi Bleeker, Poissons du Japon, Verh. Kon. Akad. Wet., 



Amsterdam, vol. 18, p. 9, 1879; Nagasaki, Yedo (after Temminck and 



Schlegel). 

 /Sct^nasc/i/e^eZi Steindachner and Doderlein, Beitr. Fische Japans, vol.2, 1883, 



p. 33; Tokyo. 

 Corvula schlegeli Jordan and Snyder, Check List, Ann. Zool. Jap., vol. 3, 1901, 



p. 81; Yokohama. 



Habitat. — Sandy bays of Japan. 



Description of an example 170 mm. in length, taken at Onomichi: 

 Head 3 to SJ in length to base of caudal, 3§ in total; depth 3 to 3^ in 

 body, 3i to 3§ in total; maxillary 2^ to 2J in head; longitudinal 

 diameter of eye 4 to 4§; interorbital space above pupil 3 J to 3 J; 

 width of preorbital 6 to 7; snout 3J; dorsal X — I, 25 to 27; anal II, 

 7 or 8 ; scales in lateral line 50, in scries above 50, below 50, between 

 dorsal and lateral line 8 or 9 ; between lateral line and ventrals 9 or 

 10. Gill rakers 6 + 8 or 9 (and 2 or 3 rudiments), length two-fifths 

 eye diameter, one-half in very young. 



Body somewhat deep and compressed, its width 2^ times in its 

 depth. Dorsal and ventral outlines equally convex. Abdomen from 

 anus to ventral base 3 in body to last vertebra; distance from anus 

 to last vertebra a little more. Profile of head slightly concave over 

 eyes, convex from side to side. Snout full, descending in a strong 

 curve to tip, slightly overhanging it. Lower jaw a trifle shorter than 

 upper. Maxillary extending to a vertical from posterior margin of 

 pupil. Cleft of mouth oblique, at about an angle of 25° to 30° to 

 body axis. Premaxillaries curved downward in posterior half; their 

 anterior ends at or slightly below level of lower orbit edge. Teeth in 

 two rows on both jaws; outer row largest on premaxillaries, becoming 

 large and strong, canine like, anteriorly on either side of symphysis; 

 inner row largest on dentaries, increasing in size posteriorly but not 

 becoming as large as those of premaxillaries in outer row at sym- 

 physis. Inner row above and outer row below on jaws small, conical, 

 distinct from enlarged rows. Gill rakers thick and rather short in 

 adult. Space between orbits and maxillaries moderately broad, two- 

 thirds longitudinal diameter of eye. Preopercular margins with dis- 



