NO. 1875. THE JAPANESE SPARID^— JORDAN AND THOMPSON. 583 



Scales smooth to touch, cycloid, present as a sheath at bases of 

 dorsal and anal, present on cheeks in five or six rows. Lateral line 

 but little arched. 



Color of alcoholic specimens uniformly silvery, unsealed portions 

 of head dusky, the iris yellow. Peritoneum black, gill cavity lining 

 clear. A small black spot at beginning of lateral line, in some speci- 

 mens obsolete; anal fin more or less dusky. 



This species is generally common in southern Japan, and may be 

 know^n at once by its deep body, blunt snout, and long anal fin. 



The eye in Sparus sarha is described and figured as much larger 

 than in Sparus aries (3 to 3| in head in S. sarha, and 4 to A^ in S. 

 aries) . The anterior profile is much steeper and more convex in the 

 latter, apparently, than is shown in the plates of Sparus sarha. The 

 specimens from Hongkong recorded as Sparus sarha by Jordan and 

 Scale are quite identical with the Japanese specimens. The dentition 

 is the same, and not as described. If the Japanese form should 

 prove inseparable from that of the East Indies, it would stand as 

 Sparus sarha. 



{aries, ram.) 



28. SPARUS LATUS i Houttuyn. 

 KAIDSTT. 



Sparus latus Houttuyn, Holl. Maat. Wet. Haarlem, XX, Deel. 2, 1782, 



(Nagasaki). 

 tSparus hasta Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 275 (Coromandel 



Coast and India). 

 Chrysophrys hasta Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 490 (Japan) 



(part). — Steindachner and Doderlein, Beitr. Fische Japan's, II, Denkschr. 



kais. Acad. Wiss. Wien, 1883, p. 17 (Tokyo). 

 ICoius datnia Hamilton Buchanan, Fish. Ganges, 1822, p. 88, pi. 9, fig. 29 



(Ganges). 

 Sparus datnia Bleeker, Versl. kon. Acad. Wet., 2 Rks., vol. 11, 1876, p. 5, pi. 2 

 . (Nagasaki, not Calcutta). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vol. 8, p. 109 (Nagasaki). 

 ^Sparus berda Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, 



p. 113 (Pondicherry). — Jordan and Richardson, Check List Philippine 



Island Bur. of Sci., 1, Manila, 1910, p. 31. 

 Sparus berda Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 240 (Canton). — Jordan 



and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, 1903, p. 350 (Formosa). — 



Jordan and Richardson, Fishes Formosa, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 4, No. 4, 



1909, p. 189 (Formosa), (not Sparus berda Forskai, 1775). 

 Chrysophrys longispinis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 



1830, p. 116 (Japan), (not type, from Calcutta). 

 ICalamara Russell, Fishes of Vizagapatam, vol. 1, 1803, p. 63, pi. 92 (Coromandel). 

 IChrysophrys calamara Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, 



p. 117 (Java, Malabar).— Cantor, Cat. Malay. Fish, 1850, p. 48 (Sea of Pinang). 

 Chrysophrys auripes Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 241 (Canton). 

 Chrysophrys xanthopoda Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 241 



(Canton). 



I The following is the substance of Houttuyn's account of Sparus latus: "I have called this species 

 ta which the scales are placed in stripes lengthwise 'wide sea-brassen ' because it is one of the widest of the 

 family, the specunen 3 inches long, an inch and a half wide. Color yellowish, silvery under the scales. 

 D. XII, 9; A. Ill, 8." 



