308 JOEDAN & SNYDEE I NINE NEW SPECIES OF 



long ill young. Caudle on narrow peduncle ; moderately forked ; 

 1 Y2 in head. Color plain, metallic, lustrous, silvery; fins all 

 black. 



Type, a large finely preserved alcoholic specimen about 18 in. 

 long, in the Museum of the Imperial University. Locality, in the 

 Kuro Shiwo or Japanese Warm Current off the coast of Kashima 

 near Mito, Province of Hitachi. This beautiful species is allied 

 to Pteraclis papilio Lowe from Madeira, also apparently a species 

 of Benlenia, but it has more numerous fin rays. Bentenia^ is 

 distinguished from Pteraclis vclifer and ccniropholis by the anterior 

 insertion of its vertical fins, and by the enlargement of a spine 

 in the dorsal and a spine in the anal fin. 



6. Ebisiis sagamius Jordan and Snyder, new genus and new 

 species, {Serranidce). (PI. XV., figs. 3, 4). 



Head 3 77 in length ; depth 3 -/s î snout 3 Yg in head ; 

 maxillary 3; eye 6 % ; D. X-1, 13; A. Ill, 10; scales 122. 



Head large ; very convex in profile. Interorbital space very 

 broad ; convexly elevated. Mouth rather small ; lower jaw pro- 

 jecting ; maxillary extending nearly to middle of eye. Preorbital 

 nearly as broad ns eye. Posterior nostril round. Preopercle 

 entire. Opercle and other joarts of head without spines or 

 serrations. Top of head with smooth skin ; sides scaly. Body 

 covered with small scales which are loosely imbricated and quite 

 rough. Lateral line normal ; not extending on caudal. Teeth 

 strong; much larger than in Megaperca\ brush-like, in bands; 

 no canines. Dorsals separate, both low ; dorsal spines rather 

 weak ; anal with obscure spines (probably 3) ; longest ray 2 % 

 in head. Pectoral broad and short, unsy m metrical, of 17 



* Nanu'J for the Japanese goddess Kentex. — K. M. 



