NO. 1462. FISHES FROM SOUTHERN JAPAN— JORDAN AND STARKS. 705 



Color very much as in S. enosimae^ but the anal always white instead 

 of black, and the dorsal without the narrow light lines. 



This species differs from S. enoslma' Jordan and Snyder in having 

 no median crest on top of head, the dorsal and anal tins not so high, 

 and the anal white. 



Fig. 12. — Salarias tanegasim^. 



Numerous specimens, the largest 84 mm. in length, were collected 

 at Tanegashima, and at Miyanoura, Yakushima. 



The type is numbered 53274, U . S. N. M. Cotypes are 9363, Stanford 

 University. 



PETROSCIRTES LOXOZONUS Jordan and Starks, new species. 



Head, 5 in length to base of caudel; depth, 6|. Eye, 5 in head; 

 snout, 3i; maxillarv, 3|^; interorbital space, 7. Dorsal XIII or XIV, 

 20; anal, 24. 



Upper prolile of head broadly rounded from nape to tip of blunt snout, 

 sometimes the curve slightly interrupted at orbital region. Mouth 

 small; the maxillary reaching to below middle of eye; lower jaw 



Fig. 13.— PETROSCIRTES LOXOZONUS. 



included, the teeth sloping forward and even with those of premaxil- 

 lary. Teeth in a single even row, slightly movable, but not so much 

 so as in species of Salarias\ a single carved canine at posterior end of 

 premaxillaiy band of teeth. Interorbital space convex, no tentacles 

 present. Gill slit scarcely reaching- below upper edge of base of pec- 

 toral; its length | of diameter of eye. 



Dorsal continuous, not elevated in front, and with flexible spines 

 and rays, the latter unbranched and differentiated from the former by 



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