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about l.Tn in head; caudal with about 9 rays, the middle ones very 

 long, ni'arly twice length of head; pectoral short and broad, ventral I, 

 4, short, the spine long and slender, H in head; vent under nearly 

 middle of pectoral. 



Color in alcohol, dirty silvery, the head and })ody without markings; 

 fins all i)lain except a large black blotch on membrane V)etween the 

 eighth and eleventh dorsal rays; other fins vumiarked. 



Dorsal with a large l)lack spot in front; anal with a brown margin; 

 scales extremely small; pi'copercle with 7 or S spinous teeth. 



This species is certainly different from the Japanese Acantliocep<>J(t 

 I'ni.sriisicnii, having minute scales, doubtless over 300 in the lat- 

 eral line, and a more elongate body. It may be identical with the 

 scantily described Cejxtla Jhnhda or Cepola maiuj'inata of Cuvier and 

 Valenciennes. 



Family BROTULTD.F:. 



178. BROTULA FORMOSiE Jordan and Evermann, new species. 



Head 5; depth 4.5; D. 115; caudal 8; A. 83; P. 24; V. 2; about 158 

 scales in a lateral series between gill-opening and base of caudal; width 

 of head 2 in its length; snout 4.5 in head; eye 4.7; interorl)ital space 6; 

 maxillary 2 in head; pectoral a little over 2 in head; ventrals about 

 equal to pectoral. 



• Fig. 27.— Brotula formos;e. 



Body elongate, compressed, and the tail tapering to a point; head 

 oblong, compres.sed; snout blunt, rounded, and rather short; eye rather 

 small, anterior and .superior; mouth large, the maxillary reaching far 

 behind the eye, and the distal expanded extremity of maxillary about 

 equal to the diameter of the eye; 6 .superior barbels, as 2 na.sals and 

 4 labials, and 6 inferior barbels, 3 on each ramus; lip.s thick and tough; 

 teeth in jaws, on vomer and palatines, in broad, villose bands; nostrils 

 in 2 small tubes, separated l)y a little space, and upon the sides of the 

 snout; 2 very short rudimentary barbels between each pair of upper 

 labial barbels; intororl)ital space about f the eye, and convex; maxil- 

 lary fitting under suborbital flap for nearly its whole distance^ oper- 

 cles with a spine above; tongue pointed, smooth, and free in front; 



