442 PHOCEEDIS'GB OF THE NATIONAL lUUSEUM. vul. 39. 



caudal dusky; pectoral and ventral pale; a large brownish blotch 

 on membrane below preorbital. Inside of mouth and peritoneum 

 black. 



This species seems to differ from Glaucosoma Jiehraicum Richardson, 

 of Australia, in the absence of the elongation of the first soft rays of 

 the dorsal, and in having 12 rows of scales above the lateral line, not 

 10. The absence of the palatine teeth needs confirmation, as these 

 teeth may be deciduous. Doctor Giinther remarks that Richardson's 

 specimens of Glaucosoma liehraicum did not show the dorsal rays 

 nearly as elongate as in his figure. A comparison of specimens, how- 

 ever, would be necessary before the characters separating the two 

 species can be positively determined. The elongation of the dorsal 

 rays is perhaps a character of age. The widely separated habitat of 

 the Japanese species tends to render it probable that the Australian 

 fish is different. 



This species is probably rare in Japan. We have seen no specimen 

 except the one described by Jordan and Evermann from Formosa. 



(Named for Doctor Burger, an artist naturalist, who made collec- 

 tions about Nagasaki for Siebold and Schlegel.) 



3. Genus DODERLEINIA Steindachner. 



Doderleinia Steindachner, Fische Japans, I, Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 47, 1883, 



p. 129 {orientalis=young). 

 Acanthocephalus Doderlein, Ms. in Fische Japans, 1, 1883, p. 129 {orientalis; name 



preoccupied). 

 Eteliscus Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, 1900, p. 355 (bery- 



coides; based on an error of Steindachner). 

 Corusculus Jordan and Snyder, Check List Fish. Ann. Zool. Jap. vol. 3, pts. 



2 and 3, 1901, p. 75 (berycoides). 



Body oblong, compressed, covered with large, firm scales; head 

 scaly, except on snout; both jaws scaly; mouth large, oblique, the 

 lower jaw projecting; maxillary broad, with a broad supplemental 

 bone; teeth strong, some of them canine-like; teeth on vomer and 

 palatines, none on tongue; preorbital very narrow, not sheathing the 

 maxillary; preopercle finely serrate; supraoccipital crest scarcely 

 encroaching on cranium, not extending to orbit; opercle ending in 

 two spines. Dorsal fin short, deeply notched, of 9 spines and 10 soft 

 rays ; a few scales at base of soft dorsal ; fourth spine highest ; anal 

 fin short, with three small, graduated spines; last rays of dorsal and 

 anal not prolonged; pectorals long, but not falcate, the tip obtuse; 

 ventrals below pectorals ; caudal lunate. 



Coasts of Japan. In spite of its resemblance to Etelis, the affinities 

 of this genus seem rather with the Anthiinse, as indicated by Hilgen- 

 dorf. It should doubtless be transferred to the Serranidae, where it 

 should form a distinct subfamily. 



(Named for Prof. Ludwig Doderlein, who collected fishes in Japan 

 for the Museum of Vienna.) 



