A LIST OF FISHES COLLECTED IN JAPAN BY KEINO-SUKE OTAKI, AND Bl THE -UNITED STATES STEAMER ALBATROSS, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF FOURTEEN NEW SPECIES. By David Starr Jordan and John Otterbein Snydek, Of the Leland Sknifnrd Junior University. The present paper contains a list of the fishes from Japan contained in the Museum of Leland Stanford Junior LTniversit}^ or sent by that institution to the U. S. National Museum in Washing-ton, with descrip-tions and figures of species which seem to be new to science. The chief material on which this list is based is a collection made in 1895 and 1806 in the Buy of Tokyo about Misaki, and in Lake Biwa, by Keinosuke Otaki, a graduate of Stanford University and now professor in the Imperial Military Academy in Tokyo, but at that time an assistant to the Imperial Fisheries Bureau of Japan. Profes-sor Otaki's collections were obtained under the auspices of the Hop-kins Seaside Laboratory on Monterey Bay, under the patronage of Mr. Timothy Hopkins. Supplementing these collections of Professor Otaki is a small col-lection of fishes from Lake Biwa, sent by Prof. C. Ishikawa, of the agricultural department in the Imperial Universit}' in Tokyo, and a collection of gobies and other small fishes from Prof. K. Kishinouye of the Imperial Fisheries Bureau. A few specimens have also been sent by Prof. Kakichi Mitsukuri of the Imperial Universit}' of Tokj'o. Collections of importance were made by the Albatross under the direction of Lieut. -Commander Jefl'erson F. Moser, LT. S. N., in the surumer of 1806, while engaged in investigations under the direction of the United States Fur Seal Commission. These collections were mainly from Shana Bay, Iturup Island, from Ushishir Island, from Hakodate, and from about Yokohama. The specimens from the Kuriles have been already described in Jordan and Gilbert's "" Fishes of Bering Sea," those from Hakodate and Yokohama (Bay of Tokyo) are here noted for the first time. The t3^pes of the new species are all deposited in the U. S. National Museum, together with specimens of many of the others. Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXIII— No. 1213. 335
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