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Color in spirits dark brownish or blackish; a round black spot above 

 upper edge of gill opening; eye with 3 dark bands radiating from it, 

 the 2 on cheek most prominent, the other extending backward from 

 eye, not evident on all examples; dorsal fin indistinctly spotted with 

 blackish; pectoral and caudal with light vertical bands of irregular 

 shape; anal with elongate light spots, the edge narrowly tipped with 

 white; caudal tipped with white. 



In life the spot on shoulder is steel blue and very conspicuous; the 

 body is covered with bands and clouds of dull orange; a l)right band 

 on bases of caudal and pectoral. 



Described from a specimen about loo nun. long from Hakodate. 



We have many specimens from Hakodate, Nemuro, and Same. 



{diKTvov^ net; ypafAfAij^ line.) 



The following is the substance of Herzenstein's description of (Jrcor- 

 the dictyogran im a : 



Head 4; depth 4| in length of liody (without caudal 0; D- ^4; A. 

 24 or 25; P. 14; V. 4. Eye b% in head, nearly half greater than inter- 

 orljital space. 



Maxillary reaching to opposite front of middle of eye; mouth 

 oblique; head with numerous pores; nostrils with short tubes midway 

 between eye and tip of snout; teeth in broad bands on jaws, vomer, 

 and palatines; head naked; a naked area between nape . . . dorsal 

 and anal; body thickly scaled, lateral line somewhat variable, the upper 

 runs from gill-opening al)ove concurrent with the l)ack, uniting itself 

 near end of body with the middle line, which begins over the pectoral 

 and ends at middle of caudal. From the upper line numerous cross 

 branches run to the base of dorsal, where the}^ form a network by 

 means of a faint uppermost horizontal line; numerous vertical cross 

 branches between upper and middle lateral line. From middle lateral 

 line vertical branches run downward, Avhich unite to forma line lietween 

 ventrals and anal, more or less interrupted. Similar ])ranches above 

 the anal, where they unite partly in a line along base of anal. Branches 

 of lateral line spreading over region before ventrals and pectoral. 



Dorsal beginning over gill-opening and joined to base of caudal; 

 longest spine 3 in head, the last and the first a little shorter; last anal 

 rays reaching caudal; pectoral as long as from tip of snout to preoper- 

 cle; ventrals nearly half as long as pectorals; caudal 7i to 8 in length 

 of bodv. 



