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ART. IP.. — B. TANAKA 



Color ill formalin jet-black ; mouth and gill opening of a 

 similar color ; tlie membrane between fin-rays whitish ; terminal 

 portion of the bulb of cephalic tentacle whitish, the four-lobed 

 prominence and the forked process on the bulb brownish. 



MEASUREMENTS OF THE SPECIMEN. 



Total length (from tip of snout to caudal base) 



Head (from gill opening to tip of snout) 



Height of body 



Width of body 



Height of caudal peduncle 



Snout measured from front of eye 



Horizontal diameter of eye 



Width between eyes 



Lengtli of maxillary 



Length from upper end of base of j^ectoral to angle of moutli,.. 

 Length from upper end of base of pectoral to postorbital rim... 



Width of gill opening 



Breadth of base of pectoral 



Length of ray of pectoral 



Length of cephalic tentacle (excluding filaments) 



Length of the longest filament on the tentacle 



Number of rays of dorsal 



Number of rays of anal 



Number of rays of pectoral 



Number of rays of caudal 



Number of spines in a longitudinal series from insertion of 



dorsal to head 



Number of spines in a transverse series from middle of base 



of dorsal to middle of belly 



26.0 cm. 

 16.0 „ 

 14.3 „ 

 14.3 „ 



3.8 „ 



4.9 „ 

 0.5 „ 

 6.1 „ 

 6.9 „ 



11.7 „ 

 9.1 „ 

 1.4 „ 

 2.3 „ 

 3.0 „ 



11.5 „ 



10.8 „ 

 5 

 4 



16 



6 or 7 

 8 or 9 



