638 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Color in spirits; male, light yellowish brown, a brownish band a 
little wider than orbit, extending along back, a similar band below the 
lateral line, extending from gill opening to base of caudal; a large dark 
brown spot on body below end of pectoral; scales of bod}' anterior to 
the brown spot, and below the median dark band, with large light 
spots; head with elongate spots and longitudinal light blue bars 
bordered with dark brown, one extending between tip of snout and 
eye, another along cheek and side of head; an indistinct greenish band 
running obliquely backward and downward from occiput. Dorsal 
with broad dusk}^ reticulations, which inclose round bluish- white spots 
on greater part of fin, leaving a light band near the dusky margin; anal 
similar in coloi-; caudal with vertical light bars, which are in places 
broken up into spots; ventrals and pectorals plain. 
Described from a male specimen 230 millimeters long from Nagasaki. 
The females differ strikingl}' from the males in color. Body with a 
sharph' defined dark brown band, overlaid with red, one half a scale 
in width, extending from tip of snout to base of caudal; below this at 
intervals about equal to the band in width are two dark broad lines, 
the lower indistinct; above the band, with intervals about equal to its 
width, are two rows of dark spots, one on the anterior part of each 
scale, the spots and lines not extending on head; above the dots a dark 
brown band similar to the median one runs from snout to end of dorsal 
fin, where it unites with its fellow on the opposite side, and extends 
along upper edge of caudal peduncle; on the upper part of head the 
bands are united on the snout and broken into two oblong bars on the 
occiput. Fins orange in life, the dorsal with a slight clouding of dusky. 
This species is found in shallow bays and about rocks everywhere in 
Japan from Hakodate southward. Both males and females are 
brightly colored and the two sexes are quite unlike in pattern. For 
this reason the two have been accepted as distinct species without any 
question until the present time. Their identity has been shown by 
dissection of many examples. Our specimens in all cases representing 
both sexes are from Aomori, Matsushima, Tokyo, Misaki, Wakanoura, 
Kobe, Onomichi, Hiroshima, Tsuruga and Nagasaki. 
{noiKiXoz^ variegated: nrspov^ fin.) 
30. HALICHCERES BLEEKERI (Steindachner and Doderlein.) 
HONBERA (ORIGINAL BERA). 
fPlatyglossustenuisjnnisGvi^STHER, Cat. Fish., IV, 1862, p. 161; China Sea (perhaps 
a faded female, but the ventrals said to be shorter than the pectorals and the 
dorsal spot on three spines only). — Karoli, Prodr. Pise. As., Orient, 1882, 
p. 28; Nagasaki. 
Platyglossus bleekeri Steindachner and Doderlein, Fische Japans, IV, 1837, p. 19; 
Tokyo. 
Haliclmres bleekeri Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1900, p. 359, 
Tokyo; Check List, 1901, p. 87; Yokohama. 
