NO. 1875. THE JAPANESE 8PARID.E— JORDAN AND THOMPSON. 599 



Dorsals not separated (appearing thus only when interradial 

 membrane is broken). Dorsal spines slender, flexible, third longest 

 If in head, penultimate shorter than last. Longest ray is first, 2J 

 in head. Soft dorsal base 7J in body length. Second anal spme 

 slightly more than half length of third, which is 4f in head. Soft 

 anal similar to soft dorsal; its longest ray 3 in head; its base 7f in 

 body length. Pectorals contained IJ in head; ventrals 2, latter 

 reaching less than half way to anal insertion. Caudal deeply forked. 



Scales roughly ctenoid, present on whole of head (including 

 preopercle) save lips, and on bases of soft dorsal and anal as a heavy 

 sheath. 



Colors uniformly light brown in alcohol, more silvery and lighter 

 below. Fins uniform. Peritoneum silvery. 



Of this species we have seen the three specimens mentioned above. 

 It is certainly rare in Japan. 



(Named from Prof. H. Schlegel, of Leyden.) 



NOTE ON ERYTHRICHTHYS SCINTILLANS JORDAN AND THOMPSON, A 

 NEW SPECIES FROM HAWAII. 



The Hawaiian species described and figured by Jordan and Ever- 

 mann as ErythricMhys schlegeli ^ seems to be a distinct species for 

 which we suggest the name of ErythricJithys scintillans. 



The most striking difl^erence is the longer anal base in E. scintillans 

 which is contained 6J in the body length, and is to that of our Jap- 

 anese specimens of E. scMegeli as 0.16 is to 0.12^, using measure- 

 ments in hundredths of body length. Other differences are, a 

 longer soft dorsal base, 5f in body length; larger eye, 3 J in head; 

 greater body depth, 3^ in length; greater depth of caudal peduncle, 

 which in Japanese specimens is only two-thirds of that in E. scin- 

 tillans; longer second anal spine, five-sixths of length of third; 

 ventrals extending over half way to anal insertion; the small upper 

 point on the opercle is lacking; the opercular points are nearer 

 together, the distance between them only one-quarter of the eye 

 diameter; the vertical preopercular margin is deeply emarginate, 

 and the nostrils are midway between the center of the eye and the 

 tip of the premaxillaries, hence farther before the eye than in those 

 from Japan despite its own larger eye. 



We may adopt as our type of E. scintillans the specimen described 

 and figured by Jordan and Evermann. The characters noted are all 

 verified on the example before us, collected by Doctor Jordan at 

 Hilo, Hawaii. 



1 BuU. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, pt. 1,1903, p. 245, pi. 19. 



