JORDAN AND RICHARDSON: FISHES OF THE ISLAND OF FORMOSA 191 
fish than X. punetatwm (filamentoswm), has thicker and less flexible, dorsals pines, 
and has a dark spot on each scale above the lateral line, and four or five less dis- 
tinct rows of such spots below it. 
Family SCLANID. 
198. Pseudotolithus brunneolus sp. nov. (Plate LX XI.) 
(Native name Ga bang he.) 
Head 3.40; depth 4; eye 4 in head; nose 4; maxillary 2.2; interorbital 4 ; 
dorsal X, 30-31; anal II, 7-8; scales 8-56-13. Body moderately elongate, com- 
pressed ; head bluntly pointed ; mouth large, oblique ; jaws equal ; maxillary reach- 
ing slightly past the middle of the orbit; interorbital space slightly convex, nearly 
flat; opercle with a weak flat spine; upper and lower limb of preopercle each with 
a few small and weak denticles; gill-rakers on lower limb of outer arch twelve, 
counting rudiments, the longest equal in length to the corresponding filaments, less 
than one-half eye; teeth of upper jaw in two series, the outer consisting of a single 
row, strong, recurved, and canine-like ; the inner villiform teeth presenting the appear- 
ance of a band in the posterior half of the jaw, but forming a single or nearly single 
row anteriorly ; sides of lower jaw with canine-like teeth in a single row; some 
smaller teeth behind the canines at the symphysis. Origin of dorsal slightly be- 
hind that of pectorals; spinous and _ soft dorsals connected by a low membrane ; 
third dorsal spine longest, 2.6 in head; anal spines weak, the second spine half the. 
length of the longest rays; origin of anal under middle of soft dorsal, its base 4.7 
in head; ventrals 1.5 in head; pectorals 1.2; caudal rhomboidal, 1.4 in head. 
Entire body and head scaled, except maxillary and lower jaw; lateral line com- 
plete, extending to end of caudal, the pores branched, 54 to 56 in number to base 
of caudal. 
Color in spirits brownish above ; paler (silvery), more or less densely punctu- 
lated with dusky on belly, breast, and lower parts of head and under jaws ; a large 
diffuse dark blotch on opercle; spinous dorsal dusky, darkest on outer two-thirds ; 
soft dorsal dusky, somewhat darker along margin; anterior part of anal brown- 
Specked ; posterior half of pectorals dusky ; ventrals plain. 
Described from three specimens, eight inches long, from Takao. We refer this 
Species to the genus Pseudotolithus Bleeker, as a provisional matter. It is not clear 
that this genus differs from Pseudosciwna and it has much in common with Odon- 
torcion and with Corvula. 
199. Corvula argentata Houttuyn. 
Formosa (Jordan & Evermann). 
