No. 1635. FISHES FROM JAPAN AND RW KIU ISLANDS— SNYDER. \{)l 



apparently related to II. clara Jordan and Seale." That species, 

 however, is not naked, but has the body covered with scales, accord- 

 ing to Mr. B. A. Bean, who has kindly reexamined the type. 



GNATHOLEPIS SINDONIS, new species. 



Head 3.4 in length to base of caudal : depth 3.5 ; depth caudal 

 peduncle 6.2; eye 4 in head; snout 2.8; width interorbital space 2 

 in eye; D. VI-12; A. 10; scales in lateral series 24; in series between 

 insertion of anal and dorsal, counting upward and forward, 10. 



Body rather deep and short, the head large; jaws equal : eve nearer 

 tip of snout than origin of dorsal by a distance about equal to its 

 diameter. Mouth oblique, the maxillary extending to a vertical 

 through anterior edge of orbit. Teeth simple, in narrow bands on 

 the jaws; none on palatines and vomer; tongue truncate; gillrakers 

 short, rather slender and pointed. 



No barbels or conspicuous mucous pores. Body with large, ctenoid 

 scales; those on occiput, nape, and throat cycloid and not greatly 

 reduced in size ; scales on base of pectoral small ; snout naked ; cheeks 

 with large, cycloid scales which are divided into three distinct patches 

 by lines of minute pores; opercles with large, ctenoid scales. Dorsal 

 fins separate, the spines very high and slender, the longest (second) 

 contained 3 times in the length; membrane scalloped between the 

 spines; soft dorsal high, the longest rays 4^ in the length, the de- 

 pressed fin just reaching base of caudal- anal when depressed not 

 reaching base of caudal ; neither dorsal nor anal connected with 

 caudal peduncle by membrane; pectoral obtusely pointed, 3.3 in the 

 length ; ventrals completely united, 4.5 in the length. 



Color in spirits very pale brownish, the posterior scales with 

 scarcely perceptible light centers; anterior part of body with an 

 indefinite dusky mantle which extends backwards about to tip of 

 pectoral, the included scales having dark spots; spinous dorsal with 

 elongate dusky spots arranged in about oblique rows; soft dorsal 

 and upper two-thirds of caudal with small dusky spots; ventrals 

 with inner parts dusky. 



One specimen, the type. Cat. No. G2238. U.S.N.M.. from the Naha 

 market, Okinawa, measures 110 mm. in length. 



Named for Mr. Michitaro Sindo. 



AMBLYGOBIUS NARAHARAE, new species. 



Head 3.5 in length to base of caudal: depth 3.7: depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2.1 in head: eye 3.2; snout 4.7: D. VI-12; A. 10; P. 18; 

 scales in lateral series 30: in transvere series above anal 11. 



a Fishes Samoa, p. 302. 



