NOTES ON SOME JAPANESE FISHES. 



Lenjrth of base of anal 



Ijensi'tli of tlie lonü,-est ray of anal 



Lenirtli iVoin tip of snout to insertion of pectoral 



Length from insertion of ventral to tip of snout 



Length from insertion of pectocal to that of ventral 



Length from insertion of ventral to that of anal 



Length of the longest ray of pectoral 



Length of the longest ray of ventral 



Xuin])cr of dorsal spines 



Number of dorsal rays 



Kumber of anal spines 



Number of anal rays 



Number of ventral rays 



Number of jDectoral rays 



Number of caudal rays (excluding rudimentary rays) 



Number of scales in lateral line 



Number of scales counted forwai'd and upward above lateral 



line 



Number of scales counted backward and downward beneath 



lateral line 



2.5 cm 



1 7 



;î.o 



4.() 

 1.0 

 2.0 



1.1 

 l.f) 



2 



20 



2 

 17 



8 

 12 

 17 

 44 



Astronesthes ijimai, n. sp. 



PI. L, fig. 1. 



Head 5i in total length witliout caudal, height of body 7 ; 

 horizontal diameter of eye 4 to Si in head, interorbital width 

 4, snout 43 to 4. 



Body elongate, subcylindrical, slightly compressed. Head 

 rather small ; eye lateral, higli up ; interorbital width " equaling 

 diameter of orbit, rather strongly grooved, and bounded on each 



