NO. 1241. CERTAIN FISHES OF JAPAN— JORDAN ANH SNYDER. 7 
4. SYNGNATHUS SCHLEGELI (Kaup). 
YOJI-UWO (CHOPSTICK UK TOOTHPICK FISH). 
Synr/nathnK tenuirostris Schlegel, Fauna .Taponica, Poiss., 1847, ]i. 273, pi. cxx, 
(ig. 5, Nagasaki (not of Rathke). 
Syngnatlms schlcrjeli^ Kaup, Lophobr., 1856, p. 46, Nagasaki, after Schlegel. — 
DriMERiL, Hist. Poiss., II, 1870, p. 554. 
Sipltostowa schlegeli Jordan and Snvder, Proe. IT. S. Nat. Mns., XXIII, 1901, 
p. 350, Tokyo. 
Sjfngnathns griseolineatus Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 5, Kagoshinia (not of 
Ayres). 
Head 2i to 2^ in trunk; head and trunk 1^ to If in tail; rings 
11) + 40 (18 to 20 + 39 to 43); dorsal rays 37 (35 to 41). Snout slender, 
If in head (If to If). Egg pouch If to If in tail. Dorsal inserted 
opposite the vent, or very slightly in advance of it, covering 8 or 9 
rings; depth of bodv 4^ to 4f in head. The specimens from Aomori 
are more slender, the depth 5 to 6 in head. 
Color light or dark brownish, frequently with small whitish dots. 
Baj's of Japan. Exceedingly common from Hokkaido to Nagasaki. 
Our many specimens from Otaru, Mororan, Hakodate, Aomori, Mat- 
sushima, Tokyo, Misaki, Wakanoura, Tsuruga, and Onomichi. North- 
ern examples are slightly slenderer, with rather longer snout, and the 
number of rings more often approaches the maximum. No tangible 
distinction is, however, apparent. (Named for Professor Schlegel, of 
Levden, the learned author of the volume on fishes in the Fauna 
Japonica.) 
4. CORYTHROICHTHYS Kaup. 
Cnn/tliroieJi(}iys Kaup, Lophobranehiates, 1856, p. 25 (all>lrn.'ifri.i). 
This genus is composed of stout-bodied roughish pipe-fishes, in 
which the opercle is crossed by a horizontal ridge, and the base of the 
dorsal fin is not elevated. Top of head keeled; dorsal rays and bod}^ 
rings rather few. Tropical. 
{KopvOpog^ crown; ix^^s, fish.) 
a. Snout short, about 2 in head; body rings about 17 + 35; dorsal rays al)out 29; body 
robust with marked angles; color olive, with dark bars; sides of head with black 
streaks; throat with black bars iaigakhts. 5. 
5. CORYTHROICHTHYS ISIGAKIUS Jordan and Snyder, new species. 
(Plate V.) 
Head 7^ in length; 2i in trunk; depth 2i in head; snout 2^,; eye 5; 
dorsal 27, on C» rings; anal 4; rings 16+35. 
Body short, rather thick; snout very slender, about as long as rest 
of head, straight, subterete in form and not serrate; a crest on each 
^Syngnatlms schlegeli Giinther, from China, seems to be a different fish. I). 40; 
osseous rings 19 + 44 to 46; tail more than thrice length of trunk, etc. 
