418 
KAMAKICHI KISHINOUYE : 
nets. Caught abundantly on a calm day after a strong gale. 
Cybium cbinense Schlegel. 
Inusawara, aosawara, hasawara, hoteisawara, kusamoclii, okisawara, 
uke, ushisawara. 
Figs, 34, 40. 
? Scomber sinensis, Lacépède, Hist. Nat. Poiss. HI, 23, 1832. 
? Cybium chinense, Ouv. & Val., YIII, 180, 1831. 
Cybium chinoise, Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Poiss, 100, Tab. 53, Fig. 1,1850; Kishinouye, Sui. 
Gak. Ho, I, 11, PI. 1, Fig. 5. 1915. 
Scomberomorus chinensis, Kishinouye, Zool. Mag. Tokyo, XX, 1, PI. 2, Fig. 1, 1908. 
D. 16, 15, 8. A. 16, 7. Gill-rakers 2 + 9. Vert. 18 + 22. 
Body elongated, laterally compressed, and becomes deep rather suddenly 
bellind the nape in some forms, probably the male. Head large, pointed, and 
concave in the dorsal outline. Snout long. Teeth in jaws lanceolate, trenchant, 
and curved inward, about 20 in the upper aud about 15 in the lower jaw. 
Villiform teeth on the vomer, palatines, and the tongue. First dorsal rather low, 
becomes almost invisible in the posterior part, being hidden in the groove. 
Caudal very large and powerful. Pectorals remarkably large and rounded. 
The lateral line lias a marked curve under the posterior part of the first dorsal, 
and is undulating in the caudal portion, where the lateral line is found below 
the lateral median line. Hie intestine is bent a little near the middle point. 
Abdominal cavity rather high. J 
Back greenish blue, belly silvery, and fins mostly blackish. Yentrals and 
the anal are blackish at the margin, but the anal finlets are quite colourless. 
Iris is silvery or washed with light brown. 
This species attains a big size, being the largest one among our seerfishes. 
A fish of 2 m in length, and 80 kg in weight is recorded. Too fat, and more or 
less inferior in quality. Not sought after with a special fishing apparatus. Some¬ 
times unintentionally caught in nets for other fishes. Rather abundant on the 
southern coast of Chosen, two or three dozens of this species being often caught 
on an autumn day, .in a pouna-net erected at a depth of about 20 m ; and in 
the fish-market of Fusan gigantic forms of this species attract visitors’ eyes. 
On the Pacific coast the northern limit of the distribution of this species 
is found in the cast off Chiba-ken, and in the Japan Sea off Akita-ken. 
