APODAL FISHES OF JA PAX— JORDAN AND SXYDFP. 



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Ijf ill head, its insertion nearer tip of snout than vent, rniforin dull 

 l)rown. One specinion taken in 200 fathoms (h^ptli otl' tiie coast of 

 Myiako, in Rikuchu (north of Sondai), by Mitonu])u Irako, director 

 of the Museum of Morioka, and by him presented to the museum of 

 Stanford University. The species is related to Synajthohrdnchus hreiu- 



FlG. 1. — SYNAPHOBKANX'HUS iraconis. 



ilarsdUx, Htifured b}' Gunther from the coast of New (Tuin(ni. The 

 ore"jit(M- length of the tail, the larger mouth, larger pectoral, and espe- 

 cially the anterior insertion of the dorsal should separate the present 

 s])ecies. 



Tyjh'. — No. B465, Lebind Stanford Junior University Museum. 



Named for Mitonubu Irako. 



5. SYNAPHOBRANCHUS JENKINSI Jordan and Snyder, new species. 



Head, If in trunk; head and trunk, 2| in tail; distance from snout 

 to front of dorsal, 2f in total length; distance from vent to front of 

 dorsal equal to head; snout, 3 in head; cleft of mouth. If in head; 

 teeth very small, subequal; eye, 2 in snout; pectoral, 2^ in head. 



Color brown above, purplish black below, and on head and lining 

 membranes. 



This species is allied to S)/)u(2>Ji«>hr<(7ich}is hrevido?'sal/'.s Gunther^ from 

 the Philippines, but the insertion of the dorsal is much in front of the 

 middle of the body, while in the latter species it is much behind. 



Fig. 2.— SYNAPHOBRANCHUS JENKINSI. 



One specimen, 16i inches long (Type No. 4H72T, U.S.N.M.), from 

 Station 3696, in Sagami Bay, off Enoshima, taken by the U. S. Fish 

 Commission steamer Alh/ftro.ss' in 11)01. Doubtless the specimen 

 referred to Synapliolyranch itx hrevldorsalls from the Hyalonema ground, 

 off Enoshima, belongs to this species. 



Named for Di*. Oliver Peebles Jenkins, in recognition of his work on 

 the tishes of Hawaii. 



