616 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. voi..xxiv. 
This large and handsome fish is generally common in the bays of 
Japan from Tokyo southward. We have specimens from Toii}^©, 
Misaki, Wakanoura, Kobe, Hakata, Nagasaki, and Formosa. 
{asurem, azure blue.) 
13. CHCEROPS ANCHORAGO (Bloch). 
Sparus anchorago Bloch, Ichthyologia, V, p. 108, pi. cclxxvi, about 1785 (from 
a tank from Holland). — Schneider, Sy.st. Ichth., 1801, p. 276; no locality. 
Cossyphus anchorago Troschel, Wiegniann's Archiv. , 1840, p. 279. 
Choerops anchorago GIjnther, Cat. Fish., IV, 1862, p. 95; Amboyna. — Bleeker, 
Poissons du Japon, 1879, p. 5; Japan. 
D. XIII, 7; A. Ill, 9; L. lat. 30. A posterior canine tooth, absent 
in young specimens. Preopercle serrated. Head nearly as high as 
long. Scales on preopercle small, numerous, imbricate. Body with 
4 dark, broad cross-bands, the middle of which are sometimes conflu- 
ent; a white cross-band on the back of tail, behind the dorsal; sides of 
the head with yellow dots; base of the pectoral brown; dorsal with 
two dark longitudinal lines; the other fins yellowish. (Giinther.) 
We have not seen this species, and record it on the identification of 
Dr. Ishikawa. Dr. Peters regards C7ia'rops maarodonta Lacepede as 
a synonj^m of Cli. anchorago^ but the reason for this view is not evi- 
dent. 
{anchorago, "anchor-tooth,*' an old name of the hook-jawed male 
salmon.) 
7. LEPIDAPLOIS Gill. 
Lepidaplols^ Gill Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, p. 1-40 {axillaris). 
Body compressed, oblong, covered with large scales, 30 to 35 in the 
lateral line. Snout pointed; mouth large, the lateral teeth in both 
jaws in a single series coalescent at base; four canine teeth in front 
and a posterior canine tooth; cheeks and opercles with imbricated 
scales; dorsal and anal scaly at base; lateral line not interrupted; pre- 
opercle usually finely serrated; soft dorsal and anal not falcate ante- 
riorly; caudal fin lunate. Dorsal rays usually XII, 10. Anal rays 
III, 12. Tropical parts of the western Pacific from Hawaii through 
Polynesia to Japan and Africa. 
(AfTTzcr, .scale; aTrXoig, a simple cloak, in allusion to the scaly fins.) 
a. Color red, orange posteriorly, a large black axillary spot, a large black spot on 
spinous dorsal, one on spinous dorsal and one on anal; scales 26... axillaris, 15. 
aa. Color red, with many yellow spots anteriorly; a yellow cross bar on side of 
back, posterior parts dusky; scales 27 perdiiio, 16. 
^The genus Diastodon Bowdich, Excursion to Madeira, 1825, p. 238 {speciosus= 
scrofa Cuvier and Valenciennes, 18.37) must be ilifferent from Lepidaploitt, having 
much smaller scales (about 50). The form of the dorsal is not indicated. 
