NO. 1266. LABROID FISHES OF JAPAN— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 619 
In .spirits the head is covered with small light spots; there is an 
elong'ate 3'ellowish blotch on body alcove tip of pectoral, the scales on 
posterior half of body are edged with brownish black, the membrane 
of spinous dorsal is black anteriorly, the anal fin has a dark band near 
its border. 
Here described from a specimen 330 millimeters long- from Waka- 
noura. 
Color in life, bright copper red, occasionally greenish red, brighter 
in front, becoming suffused with dark orange, then with violet on the 
posterior parts; head freckled with yellow spots, iris red, chin and 
breast bright yellow, a yellowish white vertical band, bordered poste- 
riorly by black, on body above tip of pectoral; spinous dorsal liluish 
black, soft dorsal golden, scarlet at base; anal golden, red at base, 
tipped with blackish; caudal bright yellow; pectoral pinkish with dark 
shades along the ravs; ventral similar, though darker. 
This species is known to us from four large examples beautifully 
colored, obtained b\' us from live boxes at Seikasaki, near Wakanoura, 
in Kii. 
The species is doubtless identical with the one poorly described under 
the names of jjerditlo and att'ohiinhus. The yellow cross-bar and the 
yellow spots on the head are very characteristic, 
{perdlt'to, loss; the fish was described and painted by Quoy during 
a storm and in imminent danger of shipwreck.) 
8. VERREO Jordan and Snyder, ne^A^ genus. 
Yerreo Jordan and Snyder, new genus {oxyceplialus) . 
This genus difi^ers from Lepidaplois in having the teeth in 2 series, 
the outer ones canine-like, growing smaller posteriorly, the inner ones 
coalesced into a narrow, blunt-edged plate; a large straight posterior 
canine projecting forward from hinder part of upper jaw. Large 
fishes, similar in appearance to Lipidaplois. 
{verres, a young boar.) 
16. VERREO OXYCEPHALUS (Bleeker). 
KITSUNEDAI (FOX PERCH). 
Cossi/phusoxycephalus BijEeker, Ichth. Notices, 1862, p. 7. (Specimen in Museum 
of Leyden, supposed to be from Japan.) — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish., IV, 1862, 
p. 109; Australia. 
1 Cossyphus unimaculatus M.\cleay, Fishes of AustraHa, 1881, p. 77; Port Jackson. 
Cossypkus unhnandafus Steindachner and Doderlein, Fische Japans, IV, 1887, 
p. 15; Tokyo. — Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1893, p. 30; Tokyo, perhaps not (^f 
Gil nth er. 
DiuHtodon nnimacidatus Jordan and Snyder, Check List, 1901, p. 87; Yokohama. 
Head ^jV in length; depth 2|; depth of caudal peduncle 7i; eye 5i 
in head; interorbital space 4i; snout 2|; D. XH, 11; A. HI, 12; 
scales in lateral series 34; between lateral line and insertion of dorsal 
5: between lateral line and insertion of anal 12. 
