NO. 1287. JAPANESE TRIGGER-F.ISHES—JOBDAN AND FOWLER. 271 



Color in alcohol brownish; the lower part of the head and abdomen 

 lighter; the membrane of spinous dorsal pale like those of the soft 

 dorsal and anal, but marked with one or more blackish blotches; pec- 

 toral pale; caudal pale, base frequently darker and marked with a1)out 

 6 narrow wavy blackish bars; often several ill-defined ])lackish patches 

 on the sides of the body, 2 at the base of the soft dorsal, 2 above the 

 base of the anal, and 1 above the anal spine; brown lines, darker than 

 the o-round-color, forming round light spots everywhere on the trunk, 

 though varying in some examples; chin with black band from each 

 corner of the mouth, extended downward in the middle; a dark stripe 

 from chin to eye, then another a little below this, and finally still 

 another further below; here described from specimen from Misaki; 

 length 2i inches. Little variation, except in depth of color, is to be 

 found in our large series. T3^pe No. 7127. Leland Stanford Junior 

 University Museum. 



This little fish, very different in appearance from Pseudomon acan- 

 thus modestus^ may be recognized at once by its immovable ventral 

 spine and its reticulated coloration. It is very common in the shallow 

 bays of southern Japan. Our many specimens are from Tokio, Yoko- 

 hama, Misaki, Tsuruga, Wakanoura. Onomichi, and Nagasaki. 



(fp/cos", a net; eidcog^ resemblance.) 



11. BRACHALUTERES Bleeker. 

 Bradialuten's Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., Ill, 1866, p. V.i {Irossuluf^). 



Body very deep, almost circular, little compressed, covered with 

 soft, velvety skin; no ventral spine; dorsal spine inserted above the 

 eye; its surface rough with granules or bristles, but without barbs; fins 

 short and low. Small fishes of the Australian and Japanese seas. 



{ft pa XV 5^ short; AI uteres.) 



15. BRACHALUTERES ULVARIJM Jordan and Snyder, new species. 



Head 31 to 3f ; depth If to U; D. I. 27; A. 25. Body very deep, 

 compressed, and fine velvety. Greatest depth of head twice its length; 

 upper profile of the head slightly concave, the snout protruding a 

 little; eye rather high in head, 2 in snout, 2| in head and distant from 

 the lower edge of gill opening about twice its own diameter; inter- 

 orbital space convex; mouth small, high in head, lips not ver}' thick; 

 teeth emarginate and pointed; the jaws subequal; pelvic profile very 

 round and convex; gill opening small, half the diameter of the eye, 

 nearly vertical, below the posterior part of the eye and entirely above 

 the pectoral, and with narrow fleshy flap; base of spinous dorsal nearer 

 the origin of the soft dorsal than the tip of the snout; spine short, 

 moderately thick, and finely roughened in front; soft dorsal and anal 

 low, and the origin of the latter a little behind or under that of the 

 former; caudal equal to the head or a little shorter, and its margin 



