NO. 1792. JAPANESE LUTIANID.l^— JORDAN AND THOMPSON. 443 



3. DODERLEINIA BERYCOIDES (Hilgendorf). 

 AKAMUTSTJ (Red Mutsu"). 



Anthias berycoides Hilgendorf, Sitzungsb. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, 1879, 



p. 78 (Japan). 

 Etelis berycoides Steindachner and Doderlein, Fische Japans, I, Akad. Wiss. 



Wien, vol.47, 1883, p. 15, pi. 4; p. 91 (Tokyo).— Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, 



p. 57 (Kadzan). 

 Eteliscus berycoides Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, 1900, 



p. 355 (Tokyo); Check List, Ann. Zool. Jap., vol. 3, pts. 2 and 3, 1901, p. 77 



(after Steindachner). 

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



pts. 2 and 3, 1901, p. 75 (after Hilgendorf). 

 Doderleinia orientalis Steindachner and Doderlein, Fische Japans, I, Acad. 



Wiss. Wien, vol. 47, 1883, p. 29 (Tokyo). 

 Acanthocephalus orientalis Doderlein, Ms. in Steindachner and Doderlein, Fische 



Japans, I, Acad. Wiss. Wien., vol. 47, 1883, p. 29 (Tokyo). 



HaUtat.—Deep waters off Tokyo. 



Description.— Oi a specimen 335 mm. in total length from off Tokyo, 



probably from Awa. 



Interorbital space 5 in head; suborbital 7 in eye; D. VIII, I, 10; 

 A III, 8; scales in longitudinal series, above lateral line, 50, below 

 40, in transverse series from dorsal to anal 4/14; vertebra? 25 



(Hilgendorf). 



Body shaped much as in Etelis, f-usiform, symmetrical, head conical, 

 as wide as body, 2 in body depth; caudal peduncle rather deep, 3 in 

 head Profile of head continuous with that of body. Eyes large, 

 circular. Snout shorter, IJ in eye, its tip at level of lower margin of 

 pupil Suborbital very narrow. Lower jaw projecting, its tip con- 

 tinuino- profile of snout. Maxillary 2 in head, ending under posterior 

 border of eye, its distal width one-half of eye, and sheathed but slightly 

 by preorbitals. Premaxillaries produced to either side of tip of snout, 

 leaving a deep emargination, into which fits a large symphyseal knob 

 or production of the tip of mandible. Lower jaw contained in 

 upper on sides. Teeth on vomer and palatines in a single row, stout, 

 villiform, on vomer in an inverted V-shape; on premaxillaries in 

 outer row small; outwardly projecting, stout canines anteriorly, 

 becoming gradually smaller posteriorly, fimally indistinguishable from 

 inner villiform band, the latter extending along whole of premaxil- 

 laries, deepest at middle of extent, forming a low triangle; on inner 

 edge of tip of premaxillaries a group of four to six strong canmes, 

 directed posteriorly; on mandible a loose row of stout canmes 

 longest on the arched central portion of each mandible, but not much 

 larger than those of anterior end of premaxillaries. Tongue tooth- 

 less. Gill rakers as long as diameter of pupil, 8 + 15. Preopercle 

 with rather widely set, flexible, i ndistinct radiating points, leaving 



a Mutsu is the Japanese name of Scombrops boops. 



