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Color in spirits dark brown or blackish brown; tip of snout light ; 

 posterior half of lips light; an indefinite light area midway between 

 eye and branchial cleft ; anterior edge of branchial cleft light ; pec- 

 toral dusky at base, light elsewhere; dorsal and anal broadly edged 

 with blackish, the dorsal with oblique, very indistinct dark stripes. 



The type, Cat. No. 62230, U.S.N.M., is a specimen 370 mm. long 

 from Misaki. Another example, slightly longer, does not differ from 

 the above. Both were said to have come from near shore. Cotype, 

 Cat. No. 21100: Stanford University collection. 



Family M IK. ENID^E. 



GYMNOTHORAX ODIOSUS, new species. 



Head G.5 in length, 2.3 in trunk, 3.2 in tail ; head and trunk equal 

 in length to tail ; depth 1.6 in head ; snout 5,5 ; eye 10.5. 



Body rather short and heavy, the tail pointed. Mouth large, the 

 eye located midway between tip of snout and angle of mouth. Teeth 

 in a single series, rather short ; 2 depressible canines in median series 

 of upper jaw. Gill opening about equal in diameter to eye. Dorsal 

 inserted midway between gill opening and eye, its height contained 

 3.6 in head. Height of anal 1.5 in snout. 



Color in spirits, brown with very indistinct, dark spots which are 

 most evident on the tail ; the ground color broken up by a fine, indis- 

 tinct reticulation of dull gray; snout, lips, and lower jaw lighter; 

 fins colored like the body, the borders somewhat darker posteriorly, 

 where they are narrowly edged with white. 



Type.— Cat. No. 62231, U.S.N.M., a specimen 600 mm. long, from 

 Kagoshima. A rather characterless species, with a heavy body, a 

 short tail and high dorsal. 



GYMNOTHORAX CHLAMYDATUS, new species. 



Head 10.1 in length; 3.5 in trunk; 5.6 in tail; depth 2.6 in head; 

 snout 6 ; cleft of mouth 2.8 ; eye 2 in snout. 



Body very long and slender, the tail pointed ; jaws equal; eye about 

 midway between tip of snout and angle of mouth. Teeth, canines 

 of moderate size, in a single series and rather widely spaced, 8 or 9 

 in each side of upper jaw; 11 or 12 in the lower; 2 or 3 short, median 

 teeth far back in upper jaw, partly concealed by the huge lateral 

 folds of muscle in the roof of mouth ; branchial cleft slightly wider 

 than diameter of eye. Dorsal inserted midway between branchial 

 cleft and anterior border of eye ; its height on anterior portion equal 

 to length of snout, growing gradually lower posteriorly, its height 

 near end of tail about equal to diameter of orbit. Anal very low, 

 about equal in height to diameter of orbit. 



Color in life: Body with 13 complete light brown rings, darker 

 on the dorsal fin and on the tail, Avhere the last one is almost black; 



