iSUPPLEMEISTARY NOTE ON BLEEKERIA MITSUKURIl, AND ON CERTAIN JAPANESE FISHES. By David Stark Jordan, Preffideiit ofthr Li'hind Stanfard Junior Unu'enity. In the present paper are oiven a few notes supplementary to different papers on Japanese tishes recently published in these Proceedings. EMBOLICHTHYS MITSUKURIl (Jordan and Evermann). In Notes on a Collection of Fishes from the island of Formosa, in these proceedings," Jordan and Evermann have described a new species of Annnodytoid tish from Giran, Formosa, under the name of Bleeh-Fig. ].— EMBOLICHTHYS MITSUKURIl. erla mlUuhiirU. This species differs from the type of lileekeria in having ventral tins. These are small, jugular in position, and com-posed of a short spine and three slender rays. There are 115 scales in a horizontal series. The presence of ventrals may detine a distinct genus, EmhoUchtkys Jordan and Evermann, of which Bhel-ena m'lUu-I'uril is the type. The presence in this species of jugular ventral lins with the rays fewer than I, .5, shows that the Amnwdytidx have no affinity with the Percesoces, nor with the extinct family of (Mifopsirht^. Their place must be near the Ophidudx^ as supposed by earlier and some recent writers. «Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 1902, p. 333. Proceedings U. S. National Museum Vol. XXVI— No. 1328. Proc. N. M. vol. xxvi-02 17 ^^-'-^
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