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indistinct, small dusky spots on ))ody along its base; caudal black, the 

 base and tip white; pectoral slighth^ dusk}' on its upper edge. 



The species is known from a single specimen 50 mm. long from 

 Misaki. It is recorded as type, No. 7066 Zoological Museum, Stanford 

 University. It is easily distinguished from T. etheostoma ^r^ the 

 absence of dark bands on the body, by the thick caudal with white 

 base and tip, as well as by the tin rays. 



{(ianrog^ dyed; ovpd, tail.) 



2. ZACALLES Jordan and Snyder. 



Zacalles Jordan and Snyder, new genus of Blenniida' {hryopc). 



Body rather elongate; head short, naked, with tufted filaments 

 above the eye; mouth large, with rather stout, bluntish teeth in the 

 jaws; teeth on vomer and palatines; dorsal fin long, with numerous 

 slender spines and many soft ra^^s, the spines subequal; pectorals 

 moderate; scales small, thin and smooth; lateral line developed ante- 

 riorly only; shoulder-girdle without upturned hook-like process. 



Handsome little fishes of the tide-pools of Japan, allied to the 

 American genera Lejmoma and Lahrisomm {GoMocUnus). 



{ZaKaWijg^ very pretty.) 



3. ZACALLES BRYOPE Jordan and Snyder, new species. 



Head 4^ in length; depth 6^; depth of caudal peduncle 3i in head; 

 63^6 5; interorbital space Hi; snout 4i; D. XXV-IT; A. I., 31; P. 14. 



Body rather short, compressed; caudal peduncle deep, greatly com- 

 pressed; eyes far forward, directed somewhat obliquely; interorbital 

 space narrow, with a concave furrow; snout short; jaws equal; maxil- 

 lary very long. If in head, extending far beyond eye, the posterior 

 half exposed; interior borders of lips fringed; teeth short, blunt, in a 

 single row laterally, in bands on anterior part of jaws, the outer ones 

 slightly enlarged; small teeth on vomer and palatines; gill-membrane 

 forming a broad fold across the isthmus; anterior edge of shoulder- 

 girdle with a sharp ridge; no protuberances; pseudobranchia large; 

 gill-rakers on first arch 7+9, long, very slender, widely spaced; nos- 

 trils tubular, the anterior one with a bifid tentacle; upper part of eye 

 with 3 broad, branched tentacles, the anterior one highest; head naked; 

 body with very thin, cycloid, partly embedded scales, about 21 in 

 transverse series; a naked area above lateral line and on breast and 

 belly; lateral line incomplete, with about 21 pores, ending above tip 

 of pectoral ; dorsal fin continuous, extending from nape to caudal 

 peduncle; spines slender, soft at tips, highest in the region of the 

 seventh, the length contained about 2 times in head; soft dorsal higher 

 than the part of spinous dorsal just preceding it, the highest ray^s 2i 

 in head; anal rays low, the posterior ones slightly higher than the 

 anterior ones, 3i in head; caudal rounded. If in head; pectoral rays 



