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bases of second or third dorsal rays; when depressed the rays do not 
(juite reach base of caudal. Pectoral acutely rounded; the upper rays 
without tilaniontous tips. Ventrals separate; pointed. 
Scales with subdued, dark, lateral bands; a narrow Ijrownish band 
running obliquely downward from eye to edge of preopercle; a simi- 
lar l)ut shorter liand above the latter extending directl}' backward. 
Spinous dorsal with two brownish lines running horizontally; soft dor- 
sal with brownish, inverted V-shaped marks on the membranes. 
Caudal and pectorals with small l)rownish spots arranged in vertical 
rows. Anal wath indistinct dark markings. 
Described from a specimen about 230 millimeters long from near 
Yokohama. A smaller specimen has <> dorsal spines. 
Coasts of China and southern Japan, rather rare, entering fresh 
waters; our specimens from Haneda, near Yokohama, from Waka- 
noura, and fi'om Lake Biwa. 
(o^t'b, sharp; KS(/)aXf'/^ head.) 
6. BOLEOPHTHALMUS Cuvier and Valenciennes. 
Boleopldhalnms Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XII, 1837, p. 198 
[boddicrti) . 
/8V-arteZoas SwAiNSON, Classn. Fishes, II, 1839, p. 279 {viridis). 
Eoleops Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1803, ji. 271 {aucupatorius) . 
Body elongate, compressed behind; covered with very small or rudi- 
mentary scales. Head not depressed nor compressed, the mouth 
moderate, little oblique, the lower jaw included. Eyes placed high, 
close together, prominent, the lower eyelid well developed. Teeth in 
one row above, two below; some of the upper prominent, canine-like, 
projecting; outer row of lower teeth nearly horizontal (dilated at tip 
in typical species). Tongue broad, rounded, and scarcely free at tip. 
Dorsal tins separate, the first high, of about 5 slender spines, fila- 
mentous at tip; second dorsal and anal long; caudal rounded; Ijasal 
portion of the pectoral fin nmseular and covered with small scales; 
ventral tins completely united; caudal oblong, the lower part obliquely 
truncate; isthmus broad. 
Fishes of the estuaries of the East Indies, one species extending 
northward to Japan. Like the species of Periojjht/ad/jiu.s^ the}^ are 
able to skip about on the mud by the use of the muscular pectorals. 
(^oA//, throwing; o(])HaX^6g^ eye.) 
7. BOLEOPHTHALMUS CHINENSIS (Osbeck). 
Apocri/jdcn chincimnOsBECK, Aman. Acad., 1754, p. 29, fig. 23, Coll. Lagerstrom, 
Canton; Reise nach China, 1757, i). 170, Canton, pre-Linnccan; Voyage to 
China, English edition, 1771, p. 200, Canton. 
Gohius pectinirostris Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1788, i>. 1200, China, after Lagerstrom 
and Osbeck, and of the copyists Bonnaterre, Schneider, Lacepede, Shaw, etc. 
Ajiocri/ples pectinirostris Cuviek and Valenciennes, XII, 1837, p. 150 (after 
Osbeck). 
