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This beautiful fish is common in southern Japan. Our specimens 

 are from Tokyo and Nagasaki. 



(virgatus, streaked, from the yellow line.) 



The following is the substance of Houttuyn's account of his Sparus 

 virgatus: 



The stripes of the scales plainer and much larger. In this respect, as also in shape, 

 it is similar to the Salpa of authors, which has on its side eleven stripes of a golden 

 hue. It is hence called in French "Virgadelle." The body is oval and flat, the 

 head is blunt, the tail fork-shaped. In the dorsal I count 8 bony and 10 limber 

 rays. P. 12; A. II, 8; V. 6; C. 22. My specimen is 5J inches long. 



21. EUTHYOPTEROMA BATHYBIUM (Snyder). 



Nemipterus hathyhius Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 40, 1911, p. 532. 

 (Kagoshima). 



The following is Professor Snyder's description of this species. 

 We present a figure of his type-specimen from Kagoshima. 



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Fig. 6.— Euthyopteroma bathtbium. 



Three specimens of a EutJiyoptero7na wliich appears to be imde- 

 scribed, were purchased in the Kagoshima market. The width of 

 the suborbital at the narrowest point is not over half the diameter 

 of eye, the maxillary extends to a pomt below anterior edge of pupil, 

 there are 3 or 4 canines on either side of upper jaw, the dorsal fin 

 is not filamentous, the last spine is highest, the upper lobe of the 

 caudal is falcate, the ventrals extend to origin of anal, and there 

 are 45 scales in the lateral line. 



The species appears to be related to Nemipterus japonicus (Bloch), 

 a species probably from Java, and not as yet known from Japan. 

 When compared with specimens of the latter from Cavite, E. 

 hathyhius may be easily distinguished by the narrower preorbital 

 which is deeply concave on its ventral edge. 



Head 3.2 in length to base of caudal; depth 3.4; depth of caudal 

 peduncle 3 in head; eye 3.6; snout 3.2; maxillary 2.6; width inter- 

 orbital space 4; D. X, 9; A. Ill, 7; scales in lateral line 45; between 

 lateral line and base of dorsal 3; between lateral line and origin of 

 anal, obliquely downward and backward 9. 



