No.1635. FISHES FROM JAPAN AND RIV KIl ISLANDS SNYDER. \H 



rays, 1.8 in head. Caudal rounded; more than half of fin free from 

 dorsal and anal; length 1.2 in head. Pectoral rounded, 1..") in head. 

 Ventrals 1.4 in head; the rays cleft almost to bases. Lateral line 

 complete, represented by scattered pores curving above the pectoral. 



Color in spirits bine black without variation of any sort, except a 

 very narrow, white border on anal, including only the tips of the rays 

 and the edge of the scalloped membrane, and also an indistinct lighl 

 border on the caudal. 



Type.— Cat. Xo. (52247, U.S.N.M., Naha. Okinawa, measuring 42 

 mm. long. Cotype, Cat. No. 21112, Stanford University collection. 



Five cotypes -how a variation of 29 to •*'>() rays in the dorsal tin. 



The species is easily distinguished from K. ater" in the more p<>>- 

 terior insertion of the dorsal, the rounded caudal, which is more 

 free from dorsal and anal, and also in having a more restricted gill 

 opening, the latter, in examples of E.ater from Pago Pago, extending 

 downward to near middle of base of pectoral. From E. flavipes* 

 this species differs in having 21) or 30 dorsal rays instead of .'>•'). and 

 the plain color. The description of K. flu ripe*, without illustration, 

 is entirely too brief for use in identification, and this form may pos- 

 sibly prove to be identical with it. 



Named for Lieut. A. J. Hepburn, U. S. Navy, executive officer of 

 the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross. 



a Giinther, Fische tier Siidsee, ]>. 199, pi. cxv, fig. c. 



6 Peters, Monatsb. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1868, p. 268. 



