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its spinous dorsal tin, the spines in Stereolepis gigas being very much 

 lower. The nominal genus Megaperca, however, differs but slightly 

 from Sf(>rer)Iepis^ the only tangil)le character resting- in the marked 

 elevation of the dorsal spines, the tirst dorsal being low in Sft^reo/cpis. 

 The scales in Stereolepis are a shade thicker and rougher, but the dif- 

 ference is not one of importance. 



2. ERILEPIS ZONIFER ( Lockington ). 

 ABURABODZU. 



Myriolepis zonifer Lockington, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, p. 248 (Monterey, 

 California). — Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, Fisli, North Ainerioa, 1883, 

 p. 649 (same specimen). 



Erilepis zonifer Gill, Science, Jan. 6, 1894, p. 54 (generic name a substitute for 

 Myriolepis p'reoccupied by Myriolepis Egerton, a genus of fossil fishes). — 

 Jordan and Evermann, Fish, North and Mid. Amer., II, 1898, p. 1863, 

 Monterey Bay.^SMiTH, MS., 1905 (specimen from Kochi, Japan). 



EbisKs sagamius Jordan and Snyder, Journ. College Science, Imjjerial Univ. 

 Tokyo, XV, 1901, p. o08, pi. xv, figs. 3, 4, (Misaki, on Saganii Bay, Japan). 



Erilejjis zonifer was first known from a specimen a foot long, taken 

 in Monterey Bay in 1879 by Mr. William Noale Lockington. this 



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-Ekilei'is zonifer. 



specimen being placed in the California Academy of Sciences. No 

 more specimens of this genus were known until the present writers 

 found in the Imperial Museum at Tokyo a very large example, evis- 

 cerated and stuffed. In this specimen the union of the gill-mend)ranes 

 to the isthmus did not appear, and the existence of the^uborbital stay 

 beneath the skin of the cheek was not suspected. The fish was taken 

 as the representative of a very aberrant new genus of .%>rr<n,l<l;^. and 

 it was described under the name El)isus sagamim. 



For the information as to the identity of EMm^ with KriUjns we 

 are indebted to Dr. Hugh M. Smith, who found a very young example, 

 about 4 inches long, at Kochi, in the island of Shikoku, in Japan. 

 This specimen w^s identified by Doctoi-s Gill and Smith as the young of 

 Erileins zonifer, and on this suggestion we have reexamined our speci- 



