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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NA TIOXAL MUSEUM. 



30. MICRODONOPHIS ERABO Jordan and Snyder, new species. 

 MON(iAROGHI. 



Head 4f to 5 in trunk; head and trunk a little shorter than tail; 

 body rather slender, the depth 2f in head; snout blunt, triangular, 

 depressed, 4f in head; aye small, 2^ in snout, the front of the eye 

 slightly nearer tip of snout than angle of mouth, the cleft of the 

 mouth extending well l)eyond eye, 2^ in head; gill opening small; 

 pectoral small, 4i in head; teeth subequal, not very sharp, in a single 

 row above and below, the row sometimes somewhat irregular or 

 partly divided into two; vomerine teeth in one row; nasal teeth 3 

 on each side; no conspicuous pores on head. Dorsal moderate, 

 inserted just a little before gill opening; lateral line conspicuous. 



Color brownish olive, white below; l>ody with large, round. ])r()wn 

 spots of varying sizes, one large one often alternating with two small 

 ones, the uppermost on the median line; largest spots about one-tifth 

 head; spots on head much smaller, crowded, reducing the pale color to 



Fm. 17. — MlCRODONHPHIS kr.\bo. 



reticulations; lower jaw and throat spotted; pectoral with live or six 

 small spots, these faint in the smaller specimens; dorsal with oblong- 

 spots and markings, like those on ))ody; anal plain white. 



The species is allied to OpMchthus j^olyophthalmHi^ and with it 

 belongs to Kaup's genus or subgenus 2ncrodori(>2)h!i^^ characterized ])y 

 the anterior portion of the dorsal and the uniserial teeth. 



Three specimens from Misaki, the longest 24 inches in length, type 

 No. 6477, Leland Stanford Junior Universit}" Museum, the others 22i 

 and 21, received from the Asakusa Aquarium in Tokyo, through the 

 courtesy of Professor Kishinouye, of the Imperial Fisheries Bureau. 

 It is known as 2lon(ja rocJi i to the tishermen. 



Still another specimen (No. 81, Imperial Museum) was presented 

 to us by Professor Ishikawa. It is from an unknown localit^^ but we 

 noted its identity with No. 79, in the .same list, known to be from 

 Boshu (Awa), at the mouth of Tokyo Bay. Two others, also from 

 an unknown locality, supposably Misaki and No. 4733, Imperial 

 University Museum, were presented by Professor Mitsukuri. Still 

 another, said to be from Okina\va, was received from Yonekichi 

 Komeyama, a dealer in natural history specimens. The spotting of 

 the bodj" and pectoral tins differs considerably in these examples, but 



