NO. 1263. JAPANESE TRA CUINOID FISHES— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 489 
the fin continuous; anal rays II, 11. Air bladder simple; pyloric caeca 
few. East Indies. 
(Name unexplained, perhaps from /atxs, broad.) 
22. LATILUS JAPONICUS ( Houttuyn). 
AMADAI (SWEET PERCH OR LADY PERCH), KUSUNA. 
■Coryphixna japonica Houttuyn, Holl. Maats. Weet. Harlem, XX, 1782, ]>. 311; 
southern Japan. 
iMiilusjapojiicus J onDAii and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1901, p. 745 (iden- 
tification of Houttuyn) — Jordan and Snyder, Fishes of Formosa, MS ; 
Giran, Formosa. 
Corypluirioides houUuyni Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1802, p. 176 (after 
Houttuyn). 
{Joryphicna miensis Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1802, pp. 176, 209; on a 
Chinese painting. 
Latilm sirioms Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1901, p. 369; Tokyo. 
Latihis argentatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1830, p. 369; 
locality uncertain; IX, p. 495, Japan. — Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 1846, p. 63, 
pi. XXVIII, fig. 2; Nagasaki.— Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., XXVI, p. 85. — 
GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish., II, 1870, p. 252; China. — Nystrom, Svensk. Vet. Ak., 
1887, p. 29; Nagasaki.— Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 45; Tagato, Nagato. 
Head 3f in length; depth 3^; depth of caudal peduncle 2^ in head; 
eye 4; snout 2i; interorbital space 4; pectoral 3f in length; ventral 
6i; caudal 4i; D. 21; A. 14; scales in lateral line 70; in transverse 
series 25. 
Body elongate, compressed, the caudal peduncle deep; ventral con- 
tour almost straight, dorsal contour very steep on snout, rounded 
above eye, then passing gently upward and backward to insertion of 
dorsal fin. Eye large, in upper part of head, equidistant from tip of 
snout and posterior edge of opercle; interorbital space convex, sub- 
orbital broader than the diameter of eye. Anterior nostril with a low 
rim. Jaws subequal, the lower slightly included; cleft of mouth 
almost horizontal; maxillary partly concealed by the suborbital, extend- 
ing to a vertical through center of pupil, the length 2^ in head; pre- 
maxillaries very protractile. Teeth of the upper jaw in 2 series, an 
outer single row of enlarged teeth, and an inner narrow band of minute 
ones; those of the lower jaws similar, the inner band confined to the 
anterior part of jaw, the outer row extending backward; 1 or 2 of 
the posterior teeth of upper jaw canine-like. Gill rakers on first arch 
7+13, long and slender near middle of arch, becoming very small at 
the ends; pseudobranchiae large. Posterior edge of preopercle finely 
denticulate. 
Body covered with finely ctenoid scales, except on upper anterior 
parts and on breast, where the scales are cj^cloid; occiput, preopercle, 
and opercle with cycloid scales; those on the occiput very small; inter- 
oi-))ital space, snout, suborbital and jaws naked. Lateral line not 
very distinct, extending along upper part of body on the seventh or 
