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921. EUMESOGRAMMUS,* Gill. 

 Humesogrammus, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 210 {j>rcecisi(s). 



Body comparatively short, the back somewhat arched; month rather 

 large, the jaws with villiform teeth; teeth ou vomer and palatines. 

 Scales small; lateral lines 3, without accessory branches; pectorals and 

 ventrals well developed. Dorsal moderately high, of spines only, free 

 or slightly connected with the rounded caudal; gill openings continued 

 forward below, the membranes narrowly joined to the isthmus; pyloric 

 cseca present. Northern seaa. (si), well; usdoi, middle; ypai-ini), line; 

 the longest lateral line being the middle one.) 



2797. EDMESOfJBAMMUS PB.ECISUS (Kroyer). 



Head 4; depth nearly 6. D. XLIX; A. 34; V. 3. Snout subcouical ; cleft 

 of mouth slightly obli(|ue; vomerine and palatine teeth present; 3 lateral 

 lines on each side, the median one contiiiued to the base of the caudal ; 

 ventral fin \ as long as the pectoral, which is much shorter than head; 

 dorsal fin terminating just at root of caudal. An ovate, black, white- 

 edged spot between the sixth and tenth dorsal spines. Coasts of Green- 

 laud. (Giinther.) (prcecisus, exact.) 



Olinits prcecistis, Kroyer, Katurh. Tidsskr., I, 25, August, 1836, t Greenland. 

 Glinut unimaculatus, Reinhardt, Danak. Vidensk. Selsk., vn, 114, Feb., 1837, Greenland. 

 Stichmus unimaculatui, Keinhabdt, Danak. Vidensk., 109, 1837; Gunther, Cat., 283,1861. 

 Eumesogrammut prceeisus, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 774, 1883. 



* The 2 following speciea from the Okhotak Sea seem to represent 2 new genera (Erno- 

 grammut and Ozorlhe) closely related to Eumesogrammut: 



Ebnogrammus enneagrammus (Kner). 

 Head 3J; depth ^. D. XLI ; A. 33 or 34 ; P. 14 or 15. Eye 4 in head, as long as snout. 

 Mouthlarge, nearly horizontal, tlie maxillary reacliing middle of eye; lower .jaw projecting; 

 protileof .snout nearly horizontal; tine pointed teeth in bauds ouj.iws and across the vomer. 

 Head naked; dorsalof high, sleudcr spines; caudal separate, rounded; anal high; pectoral 

 long, 1 J in head ; ventrals j as long as pectorals; scales very small, smo()th; lateral lines 

 each with short oblique branches, eacli ending in a wide pore; 1 lateral line along base of 

 dorsal from head to caudal, 1 along middle of side, 1 along base of anal to caudal, this fork- 

 ing at the vent and sending 2 parallel branches forward to the breast; brownish, 2 rows of 

 small dark spots along middle lateral line; dorsal and anal with dark spots and a broad 

 dark margin; pectorals with 3 black cross bands; a dark bar at base of caudal; 3 black 

 bars from eye. Okhotsk Sea. Known from a specimen, IJ inches long, from Decaatris 

 Bay. (Kner.) (crrea, nine; ypa|ix/ur), line.) Ernogramnnts, new genua (tpfo?, branch), la 

 distinguiahed from Emnesogrammus by the branching lateral line. 



SHchcBus enneagrammus, Kner, Sitzber. Akad. "Wiss. "Wien 1868, 16, taf. vi, f. 19 Decastris 

 Bay. (No. 1401c Mus. Wien.) 



OZORTHE HEXAGBAMMA (Schlegel). 



Head .54; depth SJ. D. XLIII; A. 24. Snout pointed; mouth little oblique ; the max- 

 illary reaching front of eye; bands of fine teeth on vomer and palatines; a few large canine- 

 like teeth in front; eye 5 in head , dorsal spines all stiff, the middle ones longest; dorsal 

 joined to caudal by membrane; lateral lines 3, the upper partly iuterru])ted, sending at 

 right angles upward and downward lines which .join the middle line; third lateral line 

 along base of anal only. Scales small. Dorsal with large dark brown spots oblitiuely 

 placed; 3 brown stripes across cheek; anal colored like dorsal; caudal pectoral and ven- 

 trals each with 3 dark cross bands. Northern coast of Japan to Okhotak Sea. This de- 

 scription (after Kner) from a specimen from Decastris Bay (No. 5.575, Mus. Wien.). This 

 differs somewhat from the type of the speciea and may be ditiereut. (ef . six ; ypaM^irj, line.) 

 The new genus Ozorthe (oyos, branch; opdy], right angle) is distinguiahed by the form of 

 its lateral lines as above described. 



tSliclueus hexagrammus, Sohlegel, Fauna Japonica, Pisces, 136. pi. 3, f. 1., 1850. Bay of 

 Simabara, Japan. Head 4^; depth 6J. D. XL; A. 29. GtJNTHER, Cat., ni, 284, 1861; 

 Kner, Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien 1868, 45. 



t These dates are thus given by Kroyer, as quoted by Dr. Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 1864, 210. We have been unable to verifj' them. 



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