No.l46-t SAyD LANCES OF JAPAN— JORDAN. 71 7 



in^, the symphysis prominent; maxillary thin, reaching to opposite 

 front of orbit; jaws with small teeth. Scales small, firm, well sculp- 

 tured; lateral line running- along side of back, two scales below dorsal, 

 suddenly dropping to the median line on posterior part of caudal 

 peduncle; anal short, ending under last ray of dorsal; caudal well 

 forked; pectorals pointed, about half length of head; ventrals inserted 

 in front of pectoral, about as long as eye; opei'cular bones very thin 

 and papery. Color plain whitish. Length, 4i inches. 



Coasts of Formosa and southern Japan, the original types, two 

 specimens, from Giran; a specimen taken at Kagoshima, Japan, b}' 

 Dr. Hugh M. Smith. 



(Named for Dr. Kakichi Mitsukuri.) 



AMMODYTES (Artedi) Linnaeus. 



Ammodytes (Artedi) Linn.eu.s, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., X, 1758, p. 247 [tobianus.) 

 Argyrotsenia Gill, Cat. Fish. North. Amer., 1861, p. 40 {vittatus.) 



Body elongate, lanceolate, the skin with many tranverse folds run- 

 ning obliquely downward and backward, the small cycloid scales mostly 

 in oblique cross-series between them; lateral line concurrent with the 

 back; a fold of skin on each side of the belly; jaws without teeth; vomer 

 prominent, but unarmed. Vertebrae about 62; dorsal rays about 60; 

 anal rays about 30. Color silvery. Northern seas, swarming on sandy 

 shores. Species very closely related, perhaps all relatively recent 

 offshoots from a single one, for which the oldest name is Ammodytes 

 tohianus Linnajus. 



[ajujAos^ sand; dvtf/g^ diver.) 



2. AMMODYTES PERSONATUS Girard. 



Ammodytes personalus Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, p. 137; Cape 

 Flattery.— Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, 1883, p. 415; Alaska to Mon- 

 terey. — Jordan and Evermajsjn, Fish N. M. Am., I, 1898, p. 833; Alaska to 

 Monterey. 



Ammodytes tobianus Schmidt, Pise. Mar. Griente, 1904, p. 209; Terpienia, Mauka, 

 Eustafia, St. Katerina, Sakhalin; perhaps the same as Ammodytes tobianus 

 Linnteus (Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1758, p. 247), of the coasts of northern 

 Europe, originally described from Sweden. 



f Ammodytes americanus De Kay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 1842, p. 317; Strat- 

 ford., Connecticut. 



/Ammodytes vittatus De Kay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 1842, p. 318, pi. lx, fig. 

 197; New York. 



f Aiimiodytes alascanus Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, 1873, p. 7; Sitka. 



Habitat. — Coasts of the northern Pacihc, on both shores. South 

 from Alaska and Siberia to the Inland Sea of .Fapan, and to Monterey 

 Bay. 



Head, 4^.5 in length; depth, 11; e3^e, 5 in head; snout, 3.5 in head; D. 

 54; A. 30; lateraHolds, 1.53. 



