NO. 1875. THE JAPANESE SPARlD^— JORDAN AND THOMPSON. 555 



little shorter than. the first upright spine; all the spines strong, the 

 fourth the longest and equal to distance from tip of snout to posterior 

 rim of orbit, the remaming spmes graduated; soft dorsal short and 

 rounded, with finely scaled base; base of spmous dorsal about twice 

 length of soft portion; anal short and rounded, smiilar to soft dorsal 

 and preceded by 3 strong spines, of which the second, the longest, is 

 0.5 head; caudal rounded; ventrals with outer rays the longest; 

 scales fuiely ctenoid; snout and chin naked; lateral luae concurrent 

 with dorsal profile. Color in alcohol silvery gray, with 4 reddish- 

 brown horizontal bands, the first band running along the base of 

 spinous dorsal, the second from midway between eye and origin of 

 dorsal to middle of base of soft dorsal, the third from eye to end of 

 soft dorsal at top of caudal peduncle, the fourth from cheek under 

 eye to end of anal on caudal peduncle; dorsal, anal, and ventrals 

 black; caudal and pectorals slightly dusky. 



Described from a specimen 115 mm. long, collected by Dr. Hugh M. 

 Smith, at Urado, May 10, 1903. 



(Named for Kaminichi Kishinouye, Imperial Commissioner of 

 Fisheries for Japan.) 



lO. Genus SCOLOPSIS Cuvier. 



Scolopsis Cuvier, Regue Animal, ed. 1, 1817, p. 280 (le Kurite de Russell). 

 Scolopsides Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 327; 

 Bame type. 



Type. — Scolopsides Icurita Cuvier and Valenciennes ( = Anthias 

 japonicus Bloch) a species not yet laiown from Japan. 



Body oblong, symmetrical, covered with rather large ctenoid scales. 

 Snout moderate, the mouth small, the jaws equal. Teeth small; chin 

 without a central groove; no barbels. Preorbital naked, a more or 

 less distinct spine hooked backward on the second suborbital ; below 

 this usually are one or more points. Preopercle sharply serrate. 

 Branchiostegals 6, the last one very small. Dorsal rays X, 8. Anal 

 rays III, 7. Vertical fuis scaleless. 



This genus is strongly distinguished from its relatives by the pres- 

 ence of a spine or hook on a suborbital bone, as also by the shorter 

 and scaleless vertical fins. The species all belong to the East Indian 

 region. From the related genus Heterognathodon it is distinguished 

 by the suborbital spine, a character little developed in the Japanese 

 species. 



{aKoXoip, a stake or sharp point for impaling.) 



16. SCOLOPSIS INERMIS (Temminck and Schlegel). 

 TAMAGASHIRA (ball head). 



Scolopsides inermis Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 1843, p. 63, pi. 28, 

 fig. 1 (Nagasaki).— Bleeker, Nieuwe Nalez. Verh. Bat. Gen., vol. 26, 1857, 

 p. 83 (Nagasaki).— Smith and Pope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, 1907, 



