NO. 1293. JAPANESE BLENNOID FISHES— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 491 



Although described from near Nagasaki, we obtained no specimen.s 

 from southern Japan, 

 (/^, six; ypa/uf.4/'/, line.) 



35. ERNOGRAMMUS ENNEAGRAMMUS Kner. 



Stichanis enncagmmriiiix Kner, Sitzlier. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 1868, p. 16, pi. YI, 



fig. 19; Decastris Bay. (No. 1401c Mus. Wien.) 

 Ernogramrnus enneagmmmus Jordan and Evermann, Fish. N. and jVI. Amer, III. 



1898, p. 2441, copied. 



Head 3f ; depth 6^. D. XLI; A. 33 or 34: P. 14 or 15. Eye 1 in 

 head; as long as snout; mouth large, nearly horizontal, the max- 

 illary reaching middle of eye; lower jaw projecting; profile of snout 

 nearly horizontal; line pointed teeth in bands on jaws and across the 

 vomer; head naked; dorsal of high, slender spines; caudal separate, 

 rounded; anal high; pectoral long, li in head; ventrals one-half as 

 long as pectorals; scales very small, smooth; lateral lines each with 

 short, oblique branches, each ending in a wide pore; 1 lateral line^ 

 along base of caudal from head to caudal, 1 along middle of side, 1 

 along base of anal to caudal, this forking at the vent and sending 2 

 parallel branches forward to the ])reast. 



Brownish; 2 rows of small, dark spots along middle lateral line; 

 dorsal and anal with dark spots and a broad, dark margin; pectorals 

 with 3 black cross bands; a dark l)ar at base of-'caudal; 3 black bars 

 from e3'e. 



Okhotsk Sea. Known from a specimen If inches long, from Decas- 

 tris Ba}' (Kner). Not seen by us. The species is ver}'^ close to Erno- 

 gramnms Jiexagrammus and ma}' prove to be the same. The anal rays 

 a little more numerous. 



{i'vx^Ea, nine; ypai.ii.iij. line.) 



36. ERNOGRAMMUS EPALLAX Jordan and Snyder, new species. 



Head 5 in length; depth 7it; depth of caudal peduncle 3| in head; 

 eyeli; snout li; interorbital space 13*; D. XLIX; A. 1, 32. 



Body slender; the head long and pointed; the snout sharp; inter- 

 orl)ital space luirrow, convex; lower jaw projecting slightly beyond 

 the upper; maxillary extending to a vertical, through pupil. Teeth 

 villiform, in broad bands on jaws, vomer, and palatines, (iill opening 

 extending forward below, forming a V-shaped fold across the isthmus. 

 Pseudol)ranchia^ large; gill-rakers on lirst arch short. Nostrils with 

 slender tubes, equal to two-thirds the length of the snout; no fila- 

 ments. Numerous large mucous pores on various parts of the head. 



Body covered with minute, cycloid, elongate scales; posterior part 

 of dorsal membrane and basal part of caudal and pectoral with scales; 

 head naked. Lateral lines 3; the first extending from a point just 

 aliove gill opening, along upper part of body to near the caudal, with 



