K0.1266. LABROID FISHES OF JAPAN— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 625 
blackish with small spots and reticulations of greenish white; anal and 
caudal blackish; pectoral light. Female of a 3^ellowish or brownish 
tint Avith a tinge of greenish, the scales with a light border, each scale 
of breast and belly with a small indigo-colored spot, a dash of the 
same color on the posterior part of opercle; dorsal, anal, and caudal 
greenish, mottled with dusky; ventrals tipped with dusky; anterior 
dorsal spines little produced, much lower than in the male. 
This species is common throughout southern Japan in sandy bays, 
and is frequently seen in the markets. The male is very brightly 
colored in life, deep blue with markings of old gold, while the female 
has the dorsal tin lower, is paler, and is marked with indigo-blue spots. 
Ample dissections have shown that the nominal species spiloganter is 
the female of fagellifera., six male and four female specimens having 
been examined. Our specimens are from Tokyo, Misaki, Wakanoura, 
Kobe, Nagasaki, and Formosa. 
{flageUwn, whip; fero, to bear, from the produced dorsal spines of 
the male.) 
11. PSEUDOLABRUS Bleeker. 
Pseudolabrus Bleeker, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1861, p. 413 {rubiginosus=japon- 
icus). 
Body compressed, oblong, covered with large scales, 25 to 30 in the 
lateral line; snout pointed; forehead without fatty hump; opercles 
scaly; cheeks with several rows of scales; dorsal fin not scaly at base; 
lateral line not interrupted; preopercle entire. Teeth in one series in 
the jaws; posterior canine present; lower pharyngeal teeth in more 
than one series. Fins low, the caudal subtruncate; fin rays D. IX, 10; 
A. Ill, 10. Size rather small. 
Western Pacific, the species rather numerous. 
The genus is not related to Lahrichthys {cyanotwnia) with which 
genus it has ])een associated. 
(ip€vdo?/c;^ false; Zahrus.) 
". Scales on cheek in four rows; depth in adult about 2| in length; body reddish 
with several narrow olive-green stripes, most conspicuous on the head; male 
and sometimes female, also with two rows of pink spots below the dorsal; dor- 
sal fin with black spots or blotches japonicus, VJ. 
cm. Scales on cheek in three rows; body slender; depth in adult 4 in length; color 
olivaceous, reddish below; a small dark spot on caudal peduncle, no olive stripe 
nor pink spots gracilis, 20. 
19. PSEUDOLABRUS JAPONICUS (Houttuyn). 
SASANOHA (BAMBOO LEAF); BERA. 
Labrus japonicus Houttuyn, Beschryvning Einige Japansche Visschen, 1782, p. 
311 et seq.; Nagasaki (female), description incomplete. 
Labrus rubiginosus Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1846, p. 165, pi. lxxxvx, 
fig. 1; Nagasaki, male; not Julis rubiginosus Richardson, 1843, also appar- 
ently a Pseudolabrus. 
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