NO. 1263. JAPAXESE TRACHINOID FISHES— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 4<^7 
longer than the posterior ones. Dorsal rays V, 23; A. 20; scales about 
()0. Otherwise essentially as in Parapercis. 
{veog^ new; Pcrcis.) 
a. Color golden or red with blackish cross bands. 
b. Cross bands in 3 or 4 pairs; a black ocellns at upper base of caudal. 
sexfasciata, 4 
bb. Cross Ijands narrower and more numerous, about 6 Ijroad ones, each with a 
narrow one before and behind it; a round black blotch (not ocellus) at 
upper base of caudal viultifasciata, 5 
(to. Color golden red with broad cross shades of orange; no black Ijars or spots. 
aurantiaca, 6 
4. NEOPERCIS SEXFASCIATA (Schlegel). 
TORA-GISU (TIGER KISUGO^, TORA-HAZE (TIGER-GOBY). 
Percis sej]fasciata Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1846, p. 25; Nagasaki. — 
GuxTHER, Cat. Fish., II, 1870, p. 241 (copied) . — Nysteom, Svensk. Yet. Akad., 
1887, p. 28; Nagasaki. — Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 46; Katsura, Sagami, 
AVakanoura, Kagoshiraa. 
Parapercis xexfasciutus Steindachxer and Doderleix, Fische Japans, III, 1884, 
p. 22; Tokyo.— Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1900, p. 369; 
Tokyo. 
Head, 3| in length; depth oi; depth of caudal peduncle 3i in head; 
eye 3i; snout 3^; interorbital space 14i; pectoral 5i in length; ven- 
tral 5i; caudal of; D. V, 23; A, 19; scales in lateral line 60: in 
transverse series 21; between lateral line and insertion of dorsal 5. 
Body elongate, subcylindrical, compressed on caudal peduncle; eye 
high in head, directed obliquely upward; interorbital space narrow, 
concave; snout pointed, its length equal to diameter of eve; mouth 
oblique, lower jaw slightl}^ projecting, lips broad; maxillary concealed, 
extending posteriori}' to a vertical through anterior edge of orbit; 
jaws with an outer row of enlarged teeth and an inner band of very 
small ones; vomer and palatines with small, close-set teeth; gillrakers 
very small. 5 + 11 on first arch; opercle with a weak spine on upper 
posterior edge; edges of opercle and preoperele without deuticulations. 
Scales of body, occiput, and sides of head, ctenoid. 
Dorsal fins continuous; fifth dorsal spine longest, about equal to 
length of snout; length of highest rays about 2 in head. Anal inserted 
below base of fifth dorsal ray, similar in shape to the soft dorsal, both 
fins, when depressed, extending to base of caudal; pectorals rounded 
posteriorly; ventrals pointed, color, red in life; sides with 1 conspicu- 
ous V-shaped, dusky marks, the color extending on base of dorsal fin; a 
dark band extending from base of pectoral over nape, a dark spot on 
cheek, another on base of pectoral, an ocellated blotch on upper part 
of base of caudal; membranes of dorsal with dusky clouds; anal bor- 
dered with dusk}-; caudal with 3 or 1 dark vertical bands, which are 
' Kisugo or Gisu is the name of several slim-headed fishes allied to S'dlago or to 
Pterothrissus. 
