JST OF FISHES COLLECTED ON TANEGA AND YAKU, 

 OFFSHORE ISLANDS OF SOUTHERN JAPAN, BY 

 ROBERT VAN VLECK ANDERSON, WITH DESCRIP- 

 TIONS OF SEVEN NEW SPECIES. 



By David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks, 



Of Stanford University, California. 



For the year 1904-5, Mr. Robert Van Vleck Anderson, a graduate 

 student of Stanford University, was engaged in the field study of the 

 birds of Japan. On the islands of Yaku and Tanega (Yakushima and 

 Tanegashima) he made an interesting collection of fishes of the tide- 

 pools. Among the species obtained are seven which seem to be new 



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Fig. ].— Cypsilurus agog. 



to science. These islands lie offshore, to the southeast of the large 

 island of Kiusiu. Series of the specimens obtained are in the United 

 States National Museum and in the collection of Stanford University. 

 The figures presented in this paper were drawn b}- Mr. William Sacks- 

 ton Atkinson. 



The new species are: Corythroichthys tanahse; Atherina morrisi; 

 Cristiceps flammeus; Blennius ellipes; Salarias andersoiii; Salarias 

 tanegasimse.; Petroscirtes loxozonus. 



Family ANGUILLID^. 



ANGUILLA JAPONICA Schlegel. 



Two specimens from Miyanoura (''inlet of the temple"), Yakushima. 

 Family EXCCETID^. 



CYPSILURUS AGOO (Schlegel). 



One specimen fsom Yakushima. 



Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXX— No. 1462. 



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