NO.T250. ATHERINE FISHES OF JAPAN— JORDAN AND STARRS. 201 
liand bordered with black above is nearly confined anteriorly to the 
third row of scales below superior median series. Its posterior two- 
fifths being slightly wider and the scales being- smaller it involves the 
lower edge of the second row of scales and the upper edge of the 
fourth; its anterior end does not show above upper edge of pectoral. 
Tip of snout dusky with brown dots. Opercles silvery. Another series 
of specimens from the same locality, probably owing to a different 
method of preser\ation, are more silvery with the lateral band not so 
conspicuous and with the border above it not so dark. 
This species differs from A. I'cdeiiciennesii and A. hieel'eri in having 
scales with entire edges, and from the latter particularl}' in having 
fewer scales. 
The type and 7 cotypes are from Okinawa, in the Riukiu group. 
The former bears the number 6529 on the catalogue of the Leland 
Stanford Junior University Museum. It was numbered 566 in the 
Imperial ]\Iuseum of Tokyo, a type specimen being presented by 
Dr. Ishikawa. Others numbered 567, from Miyakoshima, are in the 
Imperial ]\Iuseum. 
The junior author wishes to name this species ,for Dr. Smith 
"Woodward, of the British .Museum, as a slight acknowledgment of 
the interest Dr. Woodward has shown in his work on fish osteology. 
ATHERINA BLEEKERI Giinther. 
Atherina japonica Bleeker, Yerh. Bat. Gen., XXV, Japan, p. 40, fis. 2, Nagasaki, 
(not of Houttuyu). 
Atherina bleekeri Gunther, Cat. Fish., Ill, 1861, p. 398, China. 
Atherinichtlnis sp. Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 33, Ise, No. 565. 
Atherina valenciennesi Nystroji, Kong. Svensk. Ak. Vet., 1887, p. 38, Nagasaki (not 
of Bleeker). 
Head 4^ in bod}' without caudal; depth of. Ej-e 3 in head; snout 
4; maxillary 2f, Dorsal VI-I, 10; anal I, 13; scales 15; transverse 
series 7. 
Mouth rather oblique and moderate in size; the maxillary reaching 
just past the anterior orbital rim; jaws about equal. Teeth very small, 
in bands on jaws and vomer. Gill-rakers slender, in length a little less 
than the diameter of pupil; about 19 present on lower limb of arch. 
Nasal bones forming a ridge or angle continuous with supraorbital 
rim hiaking the head as viewed from above fiat, with the lateral edges 
straight and gradually approaching each other as a long triangle, and 
with the apex cut squarely off or bluntly rounded at tip of snout. 
Distance across tip of snout 1^ in interorbital space, which is a little 
greater than diameter of eye. A broad low ridge decreasing in size 
anteriorh' extends from the first scales on top of head to anterior inter- 
orbital edge where a depression separates it from a ridge on middle of 
snout formed by the process of premaxillaries. These ridges arc partly 
formed hj a depression on each side of them. 
