NO. 1293. JAPANESE BLENNOID FISHES— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 459 



a row of cilia resembling" g'illrakers along the base; upper edge of eye 

 with a iiiany-brauched cirrus, the height of which is less than diameter 

 of eye; a short, flat, fringed tentacle on each side of nape. 



Head and body naked; lateral line high on bod}^ incomplete, fol- 

 lowing contour of back to a point a])out opposite tip of pectoral, where 

 it ends. 



Spinous and soft dorsals continuous, not separated by a notch, the 

 last ray united with upper edge of caudal l)y a membrane; spines with 

 flexible tips, the highest contained 1^ times in head; rays higher than 

 the spines, about 1^ in head; membrane of anal incised between the 

 rays, leaving their tips free, the longest contained 1^ times in head; 

 caudal convex; pectoral rounded, slightly longer than head, the mem- 

 brane incised between all the rays, the lower rays somewhat enlarged; 

 ventrals If in head. 



Color in spirits, brownisli; the sides with many dark, longitudinal 

 lines which are broken up into dots on the upper anterior parts; head 

 with small spots, or dots, on the upper surface; spinous dorsal with 

 small blackish spots and dots inclosing a number of o])long, colorless 

 areas; soft dorsal with many elongate black spots near edge and base 

 of fln; anal with a basal row of 8 or 9 spots, above which are a few dots; 

 caudal with dots on base and along the middle; pectoral with 3 ver- 

 tical rows of dots; ventrals with 2 or 3 rather large spots. 



One specimen of this species was taken bj^ Capt. Alan Owston 

 at Yaej^ama, Ishigaki Island of the Riukiu Archipelago. It was pre- 

 viously known only from the East Indies. 



(Name from the island of Ceram.) 



7. SCARTICHTHYS Jordan and Evermann. 



&orte- Jordan and EvEKJiANN, Check-List Fishes, 1896, p. 471 {ruhropimdatns); 



preoccupied by Scartes Swainson, a genus of mammals. 

 Scarlichthys Jordan and Evermann, Fish N. and M. Amer., Ill, 1898, p. 2396 



{rubropunclatus ) . 



Body elongate, slowly declining to the caudal; head obliquely com- 

 pressed, oblong, the profile more or less vertical; eyen lateral, closely 

 approximated, situated at the angle of the profile with the postocular 

 region; usually a cirrus above the eye; gill apertures continuous under 

 the throat, gill mem])rane f ree from isthmus; branchiostegals (>; mouth 

 moderate, the contour of the upper jaw semicircular; upper jaw pro- 

 truding beyond the lower; lips moderate, uniform, and free, concealing 

 the teeth; teeth labial and movable, very slender and recurved, con- 

 tiguous and uniserial; no posterior canines; dorsal fin divided; anal 

 similar to soft dorsal; caudal obtusely rounded; pectorals moderate, 

 angularl}" rounded; ventrals approximated, each with 3 simple rays, 

 the internal of which is smallest. 



Found in the rock pools of the Pacific, widely distributed. 



