FISHES FROM FORMOSA— JORDAN AND EVERMANN. 



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Color in alcohol, purplish rod, paler posteriorly; dorsal fin with 

 narrow oblique darker markings; anal darker along- the niaroin, and 

 ^vith a similar median band. 



No canines; no tentacles; dorsal not notched, not connected with the 

 caudal; no sharp color markings. 



Tyjje. — No. 278, specimen 2.5 inches long from Hokoto, or Pescadores 

 Islands; returned to the Imperial University of Tok}^). 



Family CKPOLID.E. 



177. ACANTHOCEPOLA MESOPRION Bleeker. 



No. .5063, a specimen 13 inches long from Giran. 



Head 12; depth 13; eye 2.75; snout 5.5; interorbital 4.5; maxillary 2; 

 mandible 1.8: D. lOl; A. 105; pectoral 1.75; ventral 2; scales about 300. 



Bod}^ ver}^ long, slender, verv greatly compressed, tapering gradu- 

 ally from the head, where it is deepest, to the very slender tail, the 



Fir:. '2(1.— ACANTHOCEPOLA MESOPKION. 



shape resembling that of the scabl^ard-fish {TrlehJurus Icjyfurns); eye 

 very large, high up, entering the dorsal profile; snout very short; 

 inoulli ver}' large, nearly vertical; maxillary broad at tip, reaching 

 past pupil; teeth in a single wide-set row in each jaw, long, recurved, 

 and canine-like; opercle and preopercle very deep, the latter with about 

 6 short sharp teeth at the angle; scales ver}^ small and smooth, cov- 

 ering sides of head and entire bod} ; top of head, maxillar}-, and lower 

 jaw naked; no lateral line. Dorsal and anal fins very long, each of 

 about 105 soft ra3^s; the dorsal beginning at nape, the third ra}^ over 

 opercular opening, the rays all of about equal length, about 1.75 in 

 head; anal ])eginning under last third of pectoral, continuous with the 

 caudal, as is the dorsal, the rays quite uniform in Icngtli. the longc^st 



