JAPANESE BLENNOID FISHES— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 447 



2. TRIPTERGION BAPTURUM Jordan and Snyder, new species 



Head 4^ in lenoth; depth 0; depth of caudal peduncle 3i iu head; 

 eye 3i; interorbital space 10; snout 3i; D. ni-XVIl-12; A. I, 26; 

 r. IT; scales in lateral series 43. 



Body elong-ate, more slender than in 7\ ciluostoinn ; caudal peduiu-le 

 rather nai'row; snout short, anterior profile steep; interorbital space 

 Acry narrow, concave; eye large, high up, directed obliquely upward, 

 mouth rather large, posterior half of maxillary exposed, extending to 

 a vertical through anterior part of pupil; teeth in narrow bands on 

 jaws and vomer, the outer teeth of jaws slightly enlarged; gill-open- 

 ing forming a broad fold across the isthmus: shoulder-girdle without 

 protuberances; nasal and orbital tentacles present; two rows of mucus 

 pores below and behind eye; similar pores on chin, preopercle, and 

 occiput; head naked; body with thin, Unely ctenoid scales, loosely 

 attached; belly and breast and space anterior to pectoral naked; num- 

 l)er of scales in an o])li(iue series between lateral line and insertion of 



Fu: 'J.— TitlPTERGION BAPTURUM. 



second dorsal, counting upward and forward 5; between insertion of 

 anal and lateral line 9 or 10; lateral line incomplete, on about 38 scales 

 ending below anterior part of soft dorsal, not continued on caudal 

 peduncle. 



Spinous dorsal in 2 parts, the anterior of 3 slender spines, the tirst 

 contained If times in head; middle spines of second dorsal highest, 2 

 in head; longest ra}^ \\\ anal rays not thickened toward the tips, the 

 longest 2i in head; caudal rounded. If in head; pectoral pointed, the 

 lowxr 8 rays simple, no larger toward tips than at bases, upper rays 

 l)ranched, membrane incised between lower rays, entire l)etween 

 upper ones; outer ventral ra}^ about \ of its length shorter than the 

 inner one. 



Color in alcohol, body without bands, pale 3'ellowish, each scale 

 with a dusky border; opercle with a large, pale-brown blotch; snout 

 and lips dusky; tirst dorsal blackish, the second dusky along the basal 

 part, the third with a few dark specks; anal plain, a row of very 



