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Color in spirits, yellowish- white, mottled and reticulated with dusky; 

 a series of about 17 dark, vertical bars on upper fourth of body ex- 

 tending- to top of fin, the bars shaped somewhat like an hourglass, 

 the lateral borders black, the upper inside parts growing lighter pos- 

 teriorly, the borders appearing as black lines; middle of bod}- with a 

 row of quadrangular spots with narrow bands extending downward 

 from the corners along sides of bell}-; posterior to anal opening the 

 bars are replaced by a network from which l)lackish lines pass down 

 oyer the anal; between the dark lateral spots, at regular interyals, 

 are circular spaces of the body color; between the dorsal and the 

 median spots is an indistinctly mottled area; snout, interorbital space, 

 and occiput, each with a liroad, transyerse, dusky band; a white area 

 with wayy borders extending from tip of snout to end of opercular 

 flap; lower part of head with a network of lines inclosing 8 or 4 spaces; 

 throat white; chin with 2 narrow cross-bars; pectoral with a narrow 

 dusk}' bar extending outward from the ba^e to near middle of tin. 

 One specimen is darker than the others, the color-pattern being the 

 same. 



Fiye specimens, 60 mm. long, from Hakodate and one from Otaru. 

 Found liying among the algae in shallow water. 



Type No. 7075, L. S. Jr. Uniy. Mus.; cotype No. 50277, U. S. N. M. 



The species differs from W. 2>ulcher as figured and descril)ed l)y 

 Steindachner in haying a longer and more pointed head, a shorter 

 mouth, and in color. 



(Named for Dr. Franz Steindachner.) 



16. ZOARCHIAS Jordan and Snyder. 

 Zoarchins Jordan and Snyder new ^emis, of Blennikhv (reneficns). 



This genus differs from Neozoarcex in the much shorter spinous dor- 

 sal and the much greater number of rays in the soft dorsal. There is 

 no tentacle on the forehead. 



Northern Japan. 



(Name modified from Zoarchiix, a more correct form of Zoarees.) 



27. ZOARCHIAS VENEFICUS Jordan and Snyder, new species. 

 KAZUNAGI (8 WARMING EEL). 



Head Of in length; depth 11; eye 5 in head; snout 3^; interorbital 

 space 7i; D. XXVHI, 77; A. I, 78. 



Body long and slender, gradually sloping from head to the pointed 

 tail. Head long, pointed; snout sharp; the jaws equal; eyes high up, 

 the upper rim of orbit forming a fleshy projection above level of inter- 

 orbital space. Mouth wide, the cleft on lower side of head, parallel 

 with ventral outline, the niaxillaiy extending l)eyond orbit, its length 

 equal to one-half the head; teeth in narrow l)ands on jaws, vomer, and 



