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Body notably thick-set, deep, and compressed; head wide, snout 

 blunt ; eyes high in head, the dorsal rims projecting high above 

 contour of head; interorbital space very narrow, its width equal to 

 about one-half the diameter of pupil. Mouth oblique, the lower 

 jaw projecting slightly beyond the upper; jaws with narrow bands 

 of minute teeth bordered on the outer and inner edges by a row 

 of larger teeth, one of which is developed as a canine on each side 

 of lower jaw; tongue large, truncate anteriorly; gillrakers slender 

 and pointed. Both nostrils tubular. Mucous pores of head papil- 

 lose, arranged in rows. 



Body, including nape, throat, abdomen, and bases of pectorals, 

 covered with weakly ctenoid scales; cheeks naked; upper edge of 

 opercles with a few large scales. 



Dorsal fins separate, the spines slender, about equal in height to 

 rays, 1.7 in head; posterior rays when depressed just reaching base 

 of caudal. Anal equal in height to soft dorsal, the rays when de- 

 pressed not reaching caudal. Pectoral large, obtusely pointed; the 

 length of longest rays equal in length to head. Ventrals pointed, 

 the membranes delicate and easily parted; length, 1.4 in head. 



Color in spirits dusky, each scale with a dark edge ; head and body 

 with 12 light, vertical bands, the anterior two passing through eye, 

 the third touching posterior edge of orbit, fourth crossing opercle, 

 fifth on base of pectoral, seventh passing between dorsals, sixth, 

 eighth, and ninth extending upward on dorsals, tenth, eleventh, and 

 twelfth on caudal peduncle; dorsals and caudal with minute dark 

 spots; other fins immaculate. 



Type. -Cat. Xo. 02239, U.S.N.M., a specimen 50 mm. long, from a 

 tide pool at Naha, Okinawa. 



Three smaller examples are somewhat brighter in color than the 

 type, but appear to differ in no other particular. 



One example was taken at Tanegashima. 



Cotype, Cat. No. 21105, Stanford University collection. 



Named for Baron Shigeru Narahara, governor of Okinawa. 



Genus DORYPTENA, new. 



Body elongate, nearly cylindrical, the head broad and rather flat, 

 cheeks bulging: head with beaded dermal Maps and ridges; tongue 

 small and truncate; teeth simple, in narrow bands on both jaws, 

 those of outer row slightly enlarged ; vomer and palatines without 

 teeth; isthmus broad; gillrakers long and pointed; head and breast 

 naked, body with small cycloid scales: dorsals separate, spines 6, 

 rays 12 to 15; caudal and pectorals long and pointed, the latter 

 without detached rays; ventrals completely united. 



Two known species living along the shores of southern Japan 

 and the Kin Kiu Islands. 



Type of the genus. — Doryptena okinawae, new species. 



