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neither when depressed quite reaching* l)ase of caudal; caudal rounded 
posteriorly; pectoral acutely' rounded; ventral pointed. 
Color, in alcohol, pale, brownish ^^ellow, with a few indistinct, 
dusky. V-shaped marks and elongate spots on sides; two narrow longi- 
tudinal dark bands on cheeks; soft dorsal with 2 or 3 rows of elongate 
black spots on the membranes; anal dusky near the margin; upper 
basal part of caudal with a round black spot about the size of pupil, 
surrounded by a narrow ring of lighter color; pectoral without dark 
color, except a very narrow dusky margin; middle part of ventrals 
dark g'ray, becoming inky black toward end of tin, the dark color 
bordered b}' dead white. 
In some specimens the markings on sides of body are more distinct, 
being semicircular, or more often Y-shaped. Occasionally the whole 
upper part of the bod}' is dusky. 
The prominent caudal spot serves at once to distinguish the species 
from P. puIehelJa. The latter species also reaches a much larger size. 
Ty2:)e. — No. 0540, Leland Stanford Junior University Museum, from 
Nagasaki. 
A prettily colored little iish, common in the bays about Nagasaki 
and in the Inland Sea. Our many specimens were taken at Nagasaki, 
Tsuruga, and Kobe. The largest is about ISO millimeters long. 
(o/xjaa^ eye; ffvpa^ tail.) 
3. PARAPERCIS HEXOPHTHALMA (Ehrenberg). 
Pen-is lie.coplitltabna (Ehrenberg) Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 
Ill, 1829, p. 271; Massuah, Eed Sea; Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, p. 507; Sey- 
chelles. — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish., II, 1860, p. 239; Red Sea, Louisiades. — 
IsHiKAWA, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 46; Riukiu Islands. 
? Percis polyoplithalma Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1829, 
p. 272; Massuah. 
Percis caudlmncnJata RIjppell, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fische, 1824, p.98; Red Sea. — 
Bleekek, Perc, p. 54; Celebes, IV, p. 11; Celebes. 
Head 4^ (with caudal); depth 7; D. V.-19; A. 18; scales 7-62-19; 
interorbitai space 3 in snout; ventrals aboiit reaching front of anal; 
caudal with a i)lack central blotch; along each side of belly three or 
more white rings with black centers; spinous dorsal with a black basal 
spot; soft dorsal with three lengthwise series of black spots; anal with 
one. {GtintJic-r.) East Indies, a specimen from the Riukiu Islands 
in the Imperial Museum of Japan; not seen by us. 
(f'C, six; o^6aX/uog, eye.) 
2. NEOPERCIS Steindachner. 
Puraperds Steindachner, Ichtli. Beitr., XIII, 1883, p. 1072 {nunsatji), (not of 
Bleeker). 
i\roj;ercv's Steindachner, Fische .Ta])ans, III, 1884, p. 212 (rainsoyi). 
Palatines with teeth; dorsal scarcely notched, the middle spines not 
