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convex; pectoral .short, rounded, and 1^ in snout; caudal peduncle 

 rather thick and deep, 1| to 2i in head; its sides in the larger examples 

 covered with numerous tine slightly recurved bristle-like spines. 



Color plain brownish, 2 narrow dark bar^? across forehead from one 

 eye to the other; fins all plain except the dark l)lotch on the mem- 

 brane of the spinous dorsal above, and the caudal, which is washed 

 with darker at the base, and with about 12 blackish wavy bars, Inroad 

 basally; on the sides of the body are a number of fine narrow dark 

 bars running longitudinally; indistinct traces of 2 dark ])lotches along 

 base of soft dorsal and base of anal on the bod}'; a narrow dark stripe 



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Fig. 5.— Bkacualutekos ulvaruj 



from eye down the sides of the snout, and another from the e^'e below 

 convexly to the base of the pectoral. Here described from 2 examples 

 from Misaki, 2f and 2|- inches long. These are No. 7128. Leland 

 Stanford Junior University Museum. 



The species has been seen only in the bays around Misaki on the 

 bottom of green sea weeds, where numerous specimens were taken. 



holva^ sea lettuce). 



12. PARALUTERES Bleeker. 

 ParaZuteres Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., V. 1865-69, p. 138 {prioimrus) . 

 Bod}^ considerably longer than deep, not greatly compressed, cov- 

 ered with finely granular skin; sides of tail with tine bristles and two 

 pairs of spines pointing forward; no ventral spine; dorsal spine mod- 

 erate, curved, covered with smooth skin, inserted behind the eye and 

 bound down by the integument so as not to be fully erectile. 

 One species, small in size and handsomely colored. 

 {rrapd^ near; Aluteres). 



