540 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MZJSEVM. vol.41. 



The species has the gill-rakers 16 + 21, the scales 14-83-18, the bands 

 on the body 4 in number and straight, the spinous dorsal with a 

 large spot. 



(o^uc, sharp; puy^oc, snout.) 



4. Family B.INJOSID^. 



A small group of percoid fishes, allied to the Hsemulidse, to the 

 Serranidae, and to the Histiopteridse. 



Body rather robust, covered with small firm scales. Mouth 

 moderate, the maxillary mostly sheathed; outer teeth of jaws short 

 and thick, the inner villiform; vomer with villiform teeth; no teeth 

 on the palatines. Gill structures as in the Haemulidae. Dorsal fin 

 deeply notched, the rays X, 12, the spines all very long, strong, and 

 flattened; anal short, with three strong spines. Caudal slightly 

 notched. Preopercle finely serrate; opercle and suborbital bones 

 entire. 



A single species of the seas of southeastern Asia. 



6. Genus BANJOS Bleeker. 



Anoplus Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 1842, p. 17 (no specific 

 name; name preoccupied by Anoplus Schonhen, 1826, a genus of beetles). 



Banjos Bleekee, Enum. Poiss., Verb. kon. Akad. Amst., vol. 18, 1879, p. 7. 

 (typus). 



The characters of this genus are included above. 



Type. — Banjos typus Bleeker = (Anoplus hanjos Richardson) . 



(From the Japanese Banzai, signifying long life.) 



9. BANJOS BANJOS (Richardson). 

 BANZAIDAI: CHOSENBAKAMA (Korean garment; a fish dressed In a Korean bakama or cloak). 



Banjos Voy. de KJrusenstern, pi. 54, fig. la. 



Anoplus T'EummcK and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 1842, p. 17, pi. 8 (Nagasaki). 



Anoplus banjos Richardson, Icbtb. China and Japan, 1846, p. 236 (after Tem- 

 minck and Schlegel) . 



Banjos typus Bleeker, Enum. Poiss., Verb. kon. Akad. Amst., vol. 18, 1879, 

 p. 7, No. 112. 



Anoplus banjos Steindachner and Doderlein, Beitr. Fische Japan's, II, Denk- 

 schr. kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 1883, p. 7 (Tokyo). — ^Jordan and Richardson, 

 Fishes Formosa, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 4, No. 4, 1909, p. 188 (Formosa). — 

 Jordan and Snyder, Check List, Ann. Zool. Jap., vol. 3, pts. 2 and 3, 1901 

 p. 82 (Yokohama). — ^Jordan and Snyder, Proc.U.S.Nat.Mus., vol.23, 1900, 

 *p. 357 (Tokyo). 



Habitat. — Coasts of southern Japan and of China. 



Described from a single specimen 225 mm. in length, collected at 

 Tokyo by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, recorded 

 by Jordan and Snyder (1900). 



Head 3 in body length, depth 2; eye oh in head; snout 2^; inter- 

 orbital space (bone) 4§; preorbital 3i; D. X., 12; A. Ill, 7; scales 



