550 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.41. 



Scales everywhere ctenoid, present on all of head save preorbitals, 

 snout, maxillaries, and lips, extending well down over interorbital 

 space, over bases of soft vertical fins and present as a low sheath at 

 base of spinous dorsal. 



Color of alcoholic specimens: a curved dark band extending from 

 the nuchal region, just behind the pectorals to the anal fin, becoming 

 faint distally; from the third to seventh spines of the dorsal another 

 band describes a parallel arc which ends at the upper part of the caudal 

 root, becoming narrower distally ; and along the base of the soft dorsal 

 a third much fainter, short band. These bands at their inception are 

 about as broad as a third of the head length. Much deeper in color 

 than the bands and distributed only through the region between the 

 fine of the back and the lower edge of the second band, are numerous 

 spots, diminisliing in size and intensity of coloration with age, 

 scarcely larger than a scale in adults but as large as pupil in young. 

 The dorsal and caudal fins are colored as is the body, save that the 

 spots on the spinous dorsal are fewer and somewhat larger. The 

 ventrals are usually tipped with black, the pectorals are colorless. 

 Peritoneum, gill cavity, and mouth fining colorless. 



This species is not rare on the southern coasts of Japan. Our speci- 

 mens are from Misaki, Yokohama, and Wakanoura. 



{cindus, banded.) 



NOTE ON ANOMALdDON BOWDITOH. 



A genus of this family, Anomalodon Bowditch (Fishes of Madeira, 

 1825, p. 237), aUied to Plectorhynclms and to Pomadasis, has been 

 overlooked by recent writers. It has the dorsal notched, and its rays, 

 D. XI, 15; A. Ill, 10. The species Anomalodon incisus Bowditch 

 may be the same as Pristipoma lennetti Lowe (D. XII or XIII, 16; 

 A. Ill, 11 or 12) or perhaps Pristipoma rogeri Cuvier and Valenciennes 

 (D. XII, 15; A. Ill, 10) or Pristipoma peroteti Cuvier and Valenciennes 

 (D. XI, 17; A. Ill, 10). The genus Anomalodon, if with a chin 

 groove, should differ from Ortliopristis by the notched dorsal. If 

 without chin groove, Anomalodon should be compared with Isacia 

 (conceptionis), and with Parapristipoma. 



9. Genus HAPALOGENYS Richardson. 



Hapalogenys Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 13, 1844, p. 4G3 (nitens). 



Type. — Hapalogenys nitens Richardson = (Pogonias nigripinnis 

 Schlegel) . 



Body compressed, elevated, covered with moderate ctenoid scales. 

 Mouth moderate, horizontal. Chin with several pores, hidden by a 

 mass of short crowded barbels or papillge, these little developed in the 

 young; no central groove. Tip of snout naked, with small papiHse. 

 Teeth small, uniform. Preopercle serrate. One dorsal, with eleven 



