DISCUSSION' (>F sl'l'.cilis AM) THKIK I USTKIKL'iTON. 351 



Tlic single dorsal I'm extends from die capital crest to the caudal I'm. from which it 

 is not easily distinguished. Behind the long, bony ray already mentioned it is low, the 

 middle portion being higher than the rest. The base is sheathed in transparenl membrane, 



an extension of the skin. The pectoral tins are of moderate size, placed low down, anil at 

 a distance from the tip of the lower jaw equal to about an eighth of the total length of the 

 fish. The firs! raj is bony and very strong, but not longer than the rest, which are 

 branched. The ventral tins are very short, and are inserted a little behind the pectoral 

 fins, and only slightly below them. Only five slender, simple rays were counted in the 

 specimen. The anal tin is low, it is placed far behind, near the caudal I'm, and its first 

 three or four rays are short. The vent is placed just before the tin. The tail behind I he 



anal fin has parallel margins, and is much < ipressed. It is low, and its lower edge is 



finless, whilst its upper edge carries the posterior portion of the dorsal tin. The caudal 

 fin is short, and is not well distinguished from the dorsal fin; but there seem to be fifteen 

 rays, viz, Id below the lateral line and 5 above. The lower angle only projects. This tin 

 is not set bliquely, as in some of the genera of the family. 



The unarmed lateral line descends at an angle of 15 from the angle of the capital 

 crest to behind the eye; it is then straight along the body to the base of the caudal fin. 



The stomach is csecal, narrow, and tapers downwards. Numerous caeca are attached to 

 the intestine. The intestinal canal is long and straight; the egg-sac long and forked; the 

 liver of moderate size. 



TABLE OF MEASUREMENTS. 



I [i. ii. a 



Pectorals: 



Length :; 



Distance from tip of lower jaw 6| 



Distance from lower edge of body \\ 



\Y idth of base ,*„ 



Ventrals: 



Length -i 



Distance from root <>l pi-rou-als i 7 ,. 



Anal: 



Height n, 



Distance from caudal H 



Tail, height 



Caudal, length at lower angle 1 ,' 



Inches 



Total length 50 



Height (11 inches from snout) !'! 



Height of head through the eye 7 : 



Thickness for the greater part of body H 



Head IU 



Eye: 



Diameter 2J 



I list a nee from front of head D 



Distance from edge of crest 3," 



Mouth: 



Rictus H 



Width 2 



Teeth, length A 



Maxillary, width below i 



Dorsal : 



Length of first ray 1-', 



Height of middle portion 2 



LOPIIOTES CAPELLEI, Temminck and Schlegel. (Figure 390.) 



Lophote* Gapellei, Temminck and Sciilegel, Fauna Japonica, Poissons, 132, id. i.xxi. — (GOnther, Oat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mils., hi, 312.) 



A Lophotes having the length of the head equal to the height of the body, and con- 

 tained about 7 times in total length. The eyes very large, their diameter contained ■>\ 

 times in the length of the head; the eye nearer to the throat than to the back. The angle 

 of the head in front somewhat less acute than in L. Cepedianus. The length of the snout 

 slightly less than the diameter of the eye. Mouth moderate, the tip of the maxillary 

 reaching to the vertical from the anterior margin of the orbit. Teeth similar to (hose of 

 the European species. Edge of preoperculum rounded, with a somewhat acute angle. 

 The operculum rounded, its upper edge a little emargiiiate. Opercular bones finely striate. 

 Body absolutely naked. The lateral line is straight, but in front of the eye ascends in a 

 gentle curve to the tip of the crest and the base of the first dorsal ray. Vent at the be. 

 ginning of the last eighth of the total length of the body; the anal I'm, placed behind it, 

 is rounded, and the length of its base twice as great as its height, the height being not 

 more than half the vertical diameter of the orbit. The caudal is small, its length being 

 one-third of the height of the body, it being considerably larger in proportion than in L. 

 Cepedianus. Dorsal confluent with the caudal (not confluent in /,. Cepedianus); its height 

 in the middle is equal to one-fourth of the height of the body, but it decreases in height 

 considerably posteriorly and anteriorly, so that over the eye the rays arc scarcely percepti- 



