NO. 1213. A LIST OF JAPANESE FISHES— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 347 



One of Professor Ishikawa's specimens, No. 6269, Leland Stanford 

 Junior University Museum, is here described: 



Head, 4| in length; depth, 3f ; depth of caudal peduncle, 8^; eye, 

 •i in head; snout, 4; interorbital space, 3; height of doi'sal, ^^ in 

 length; anal, 8|; length of pectoral, 5f ; ventral, 6|; caudal, 4; num- 

 ber of dorsal raj^s, J); anal, 16; scales in lateral series, 69; in trans- 

 verse series, counting upward and forward from origin of ventral, 18; 

 between insertion of dorsal and occiput, 28. 



Body, including caudal peduncle, deep; rather compressed. Head, 

 small. Interorbital space, convex. Eye, large; its diameter e(pial to 

 length of snout. Mouth, small; oblique; lower jaw slightly project- 

 ing; maxillary, protractile; without barbel; not extending posteriorly 

 to edge of orbit. Gill rakers on first arch, 17 (13+4); low; pointed. 

 Pseudol)ranchia^ present. Alimentary canal, twice the length of l)od3\ 

 Air bladder with median constriction; extending posteriorly to anal 

 opening. Peritoneum with dark pigment. Dorsal inserted midway 

 between tip of snout and base of caudal; posterior to origin of ven- 

 trals a distance equal to diameter of pupil; first ray short; simple; 

 closely adnate to the next; second ray, spine-like; heavy, as long as 

 the third; in the depressed fin the tips of the anterior rays fall beyond 

 those of the posterior ones. Anal fin, elongate; the first two spine- 

 like rays close together; weak; third ray longest; others gradually 

 shorter; in the depressed fin the tips of the anterior rays reach the 

 base of last ray. Caudal deeply notched; the tips pointed. Pec- 

 torals pointed. Ventrals obtusely rounded. Color dark; almost black 

 on back and top of head; minute, dark dots scattered over body, 

 (^xcept on ventral surface; posterior edge of each scale with a small 

 dark spot; larger and more pronounced on lateral, median parts of 

 body. Opercles brassy. 



Family LEPTOCEPHALID^E. 



LEPTOCEPHALUS MYRIASTER (Brevoort). 



Tokyo (Otaki); Hakodate. 



CONGRELLUS MEEKI Jordan and Snyder, new species. 

 (Plate XI. ) 



Type s2)ecimen.—^o. 49397, U.S.N.M. 



Locality. — Ba}' of Tokyo, Japan. Collector, AlhafroKs. Original 

 No. 1971. 



Descrljjtion. — Body and tail equal in length, the vent })eing midway 

 between tip of snout and base of caudal fin. Height of body, meas- 

 ured behind pectorals, 2^ in length of head. Head 6^ in length. 

 Snout rather pointed, 5 in head. Diameter of orl)it equal to length 

 of snout; cleft of mouth reaching a vertical through a point behind 



