NO. 1263. JAPANESE TEA CHIXOID FISHES— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 463 
them, well separated, a rhombic area between them, the rays I, 5; no 
air 1)ladder; [n'loric ca?ca few: vertel)riv typically 10 + 20. Small 
tishes of the tropical and antarctic seas, often brightly colored. 
a. Gill membranes united, free from the isthmus; body scaly; lateral line single. 
h. Palatines without teeth; dorsal notched, its middle spines highest..Pfn-«^>e)r/,s', 1 
bb. Palatines with teeth; last spines of dorsal highest N'opcrcis, 2 
1. PARAPERCIS Bleekep. 
Percis Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., 1801, ]>. 17V) {nKiculntiift); (not of Scoiioli; a 
genus of Agonidie, 1777). 
Parapercis Bleeker, Fauna Ichth. Chine, Xed. Tydskr, Dierk., IV, lS7i*, p. 127 
{ci/Undrtca). 
Bod}^ cylindrical, rather elongate; month moderate, .slighth' oblique, 
the jaws equal; teeth villiform, with .small canines; no teeth on the 
palatines; dorsal divided, the middle spines highest. Lateral line 
single curved upward anteriorh'; l)od3^ with ctenoid scales, gill mem- 
branes free from the isthmus. 
{napa^ near; Percis, a name transferred from this genus to another 
to which it was earlier applied, allied to TtepKi]. perch.) 
". Body and tail without distinct black, white edged ocelli; a broad dark lateral band; 
lower parts (^f head with dark cross bars. D. V, 21 ; scales, 62 jmlchella, 1 
'III. Body with single large ocellus at upper base of caudal f:n; lower parts of head 
without distinct bands. D. V, 22; scales, 58 ommatura, 2 
'laa. Body with three or more ocelli on the lower parts; caudal with a black central 
blotch. D. V, 19; scales, 62 hexophthaJma, o 
I. PARAPERCIS PULCHELLA (Schlegel). 
TOGORO i-IWASHI (JACK-SARDINE). 
Percis pule) I eUa Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1846, p. 24, pi. x, fig. 2; Naga- 
saki. — Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 211; Canton. — Gunther, Cat. 
Fish., II, 1870, p. 240; Nagasaki. — Steind.vchner und Doderleix, Fische 
Japans, 111,1884, p. 190; Tokyo Bay.— Nystro.m, Svensk. Vet. Akad., 1887, 
p. 28; Nagasaki. 
Head, -l in length; depth, .5^; depth of caudal peduncle, 2| in head; 
eye,4i; snout, 2t; interorbital space, 7; pectoral, 5i in length; ventral, 
5i; caudal (upper ravs),4|; D. V-21; A, 18; scales in lateral line, 62; 
in transverse series, 24: between lateral line and insertion of dorsal, 5. 
Body elongate, subcylindrical, the caudal peduncle somewhat com- 
pressed, dorsal contour of head rising rapidly from tip of snout to 
interorl)ital space; snout short; eyes high in head, nearer to tip of 
snout than to posterior edge of opercle, a distance about equal to diam- 
eter of pupil, directed obliqueh^ upward; interorbital space narrow, 
flat. Mouth large, oblique, lips l)road, premaxillary very protractile, 
the maxillary entirely concealed beneath the preorbital, extending 
posteriorly to a vertical through anterior edge of pupil. Teeth on the 
^Togt)ro is a familiar boy's name, corresi^onding to Jack or Charley. 
