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Head B.-i; depth 2.4; eye 2.5; snout 5.5; maxillary 2; mandible 

 1.75; iuterorbital 4; D. V, *.>; longest dorsal ray 1.5; A. Ill, 44; 

 longest anal spine 3.6, ray 2.8; scales 80 in lateral line; those above 

 and below are rubbed off and not to be counted accurately. Body 

 oblong, compressed; long base of anal very oblique; lateral line con- 

 current with the dorsal outline and extending to tip of tail; head com- 

 pressed; eye large; snout very short, blunt; mouth large, very oblique; 

 villiform teeth on vomer, palatines, and jaws; maxillary extending to 

 below middle of eye; dorsal short, slightly behind ventral; anal very 

 long, low and densely scaled at base; ventral spine as long as rays; pec- 

 toral broad, falcate. 1.2 in head; scales deciduous, those of lateral line 

 most persistent. 



Fl<i. 1 I. — PEMPHEKIS NYCTEKEI'TES. 



General color in alcohol, olivaceous brown; i)ectoral and ventrals 

 pale; base of anal dusky brownr. throat and under parts of head rusty 

 l)rown. 



Type. — No. 286, a specimen 8 inches long from Hokoto, Formosa, 

 returned to the Imj)erial University. 



Family KUHLIID.E. 



93- KUHLIA MARGINATA ( Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



One specimen. No. oil*, from Kotosho. agreeing fairly with Boulen- 

 ger's description. 



Family SERRANID.F:. 



94. PSAMMOPERCA WAIGENSIS (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 One rinc specimen. No. 840. from Formosa. F. 1. 



