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



591 



Color in alcohol uniform brown, dark greenish in life, lighter along 

 ventral edge of body and head. Dorsal fin as dark as body; caudal 

 more lightly colored; ventrals light, or white, on lower side save at 

 dark tips, and darker above; pectorals similar, a narrow dark bar 

 across their bases. Scale rows marked by a dark spot at base of each 

 scale. Preopercular flap colored like the body. 



This species is generally common on the shores of southern Japan. 

 We have seen specimens of various sizes from Tsuruga, Akune, Waka- 

 noiira, Tokyo, Yokohama, Misaki, and Nagasaki. It is valued as a 

 food fish. 



It is easily known by the number of 15 dorsal spines, and by the 

 presence on the sides of stripes along the rows of scales. 



(punctatus, spotted.) 



31. GIRELLA MEZINA Jordan and Starks. 



Girella vuzina Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 32, 1907, p. 496, 

 fig. 3 (Naha, in Riu Iviu Islands). — ^Jordan and Richardson, Mem. Carnegie 

 Mus., vol. 4, No. 4, 1909, p. 190 (Takao in Formosa). 



Fig. 13.— Gieella mezina. 



Habitat. — Southern Japan to Formosa. 



Description of a specimen 73 mm. in total length from Misaki, 

 Japan, collected by Professor Snyder,^ and of the type and two 

 cotypes of the species from Nafa, Okinawa, Riu Kiu Islands. 



Head 3f in length to base of caudal; depth 2^; eye 3^ in head; 

 maxillary 3; interorbital space 3§; D. XIV, 14; A. Ill, 11; scales in 

 lateral line 50, in transverse series between insertions of dorsal and 

 anal 8/17. 



1 Record by pennission taken from Snyder's manuscript notes. 



