(tYMXODONT fishes of japan— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 263 
bands, the first 3 with distinct black borders, the next 4 with nimierous 
black spots, the black margins appearing only on lower parts. 
Differing- from Ranzanla truncata chiefly in the smaller eye, in hav- 
ing the eye placed well a])Ove the mouth and abov^e the axis of the 
body, in the high position of the pectoral tin. in the higher dorsal and 
anal, and in the coloration. Originally known from one specimen in 
Leland Stanford Junior Universit}' Museum. 20 inches long, taken at 
the mouth of Pearl Harbor, Oahu. by Mr. Hiel Kapu. and sent to 
Stanford University by Mr. Charles B. Wilson. A second example 
about 4 inches long was secured by the senior author at Honolulu 
during the summer of 1901. 
It is rarelv taken in Japan. In a collection of old paintings l)elong- 
ing to Count Date, examined l)v us in Sendai. is a fine colored figure of 
this species with the legend in Japanese, "Off" the Sea of Akabane in 
Mikawa by Sokichi Minake." The picture was made about 1850. 
The coloration is rather more spotty than in the type of Riinzanla 
tnakua. 
(Ji^/A7/(/. the native name of the fish, meaning "the source from 
which the Bonito and the Albacore sprung in ages past.") 
RECAPITULATION. 
Suborder GYMNODONTES. 
Family 1. Triodoxtid.e. 
1. Triodon Eeinwardt. 
1. bursorius Reinwardt; Misaki. 
Family II. Tetraodoxtid.e. 
2. Spheroides Lacepede. 
§ iMfjocephalus Swainson. 
2. sceleratus (Forster). 
3. upadiceus (Richardson); Tokyo, Nagasaki. 
4. stictonotufi (Schlegel); Hakodate, ^Nlisaki, Nagasaki. 
5. inermis (Schlegel). 
6. porphyreus (Schlegel). 
7. rubripes (Schlegel); Tokyo, Wakanoura. 
8. xanthopteris (Schlegel) . 
9. pardaUs (Schlegel); Hakodate, Aomori, Matsnshima, 
Tokyo, Misaki, Onomichi, Nagasaki. 
10. abbotti Jordan and Snyder; Tokyo. 
11. exascurnn Jordan and Snyder; iSIisaki. 
12. ocellatus (Osbeck). 
13. alboplmnheus (Hichard^on); Aomori, Wakanoura, (Onom- 
ichi, Tsuruga. 
14. rcDnindaris (Schlegel); Tokyo, Misaki, Ko})e, Tsuruga, 
Nagasaki. 
15. borealh Jordan and Snyder; Otarn, ^Nlororan. Hak<xlate, 
Aomori, Same, Matsushima. 
16. nip>hohles Jordan and Snyder; Tokyo, Misaki, AVakanoura, 
Tsuruga, Nagasaki. 
§ Spheroides. 
