FISHES 



OF JAPAN. 



Supplementary Note. 



Since the foregoing paper was prepared and the most of it was in 

 type, the authors have had the great good fortune to spend a summer in 

 field work on the fishes of Japan. By this means, and through the 

 generous cooperation of Japanese naturalists, most of the species men- 

 tioned in these pages have been obtained and many new ones remain to 

 be added to the list. Several of the additions had been already noted by 

 Japanese naturalists in papers overlooked by us, because written in the 

 Japanese language. Among these are the valuable list entitled 

 " Catalogue of the Vertebrated Animals of Japan '' by S. Okada (Tokyo, 

 1891). The useful " Catalogue of Japanese Fishes " privately printed 

 by Dr. Shinnosuke Matsubara was also unknown to us. We made 

 little use of the " Preliminary Catalogue of the Fishes in the Collection 

 of the Natural History Depaitment of the Imperial Museum, " Tokyo, 

 1897, by Dr. C. Lshikawa and K. Matsuura, because we could not 

 readily test the accuracy of the identifications made, and because we 

 could not read the notes in Japanese. In our subsequent studies in the 

 field we have found this paper most helpful. The papers of Dr. H. 

 Nakagawa and of Dr. E. A. Andrews on the Japanese Lancelet we had 

 unfortunately overlooked. 



The following minor errors may be corrected. Trachurops 

 crumenophthalmus does not occur in Japan, Trachurops torvus having 

 been mistaken for it. The " Shibi " is probably a species of Tinnums 

 and may stand as Thitnnus sibi. Our specimen of Podabrus cottoides 

 came from near Miyako, Rikuchu, not from Tokyo Bay. The family 

 Veliferidœ is identical with Pteraclidœ, Aleteopoclidœ and Lopkotidœ 

 have no affinity with the Blennioid fishes. Ateleopus is close to 

 Macrouriâœ, while Loplwtes may be allied to the Goryphœnidœ or other 

 Scombroid forms. 



