JA FA NJiJSE VLINU-FISHES— JORDAN A Nl) FO 117, /•;/.'. 415 



Color in alcohol uniform lemon-yellow Described from a .specimen 

 from Misaivi about lyV inches long-. 



This little tish is known to us from two examples from tide pools at 

 Misaki near the original locality from which the species was described. 



{//i/7unius, smallest.) 



2. ASPASMA CICONI^ Jordan and Fowler, new species. 



Head 2f to 3; depth 5i to .51; D. 11 or 12; A. !); P. 2(»; V. 4. 

 Bod}^ elongate, much compressed anteriorly below so that it is more 

 or less flattened; back convex. Head ratljer broad, its breadth about 

 1^ in its length; snout depressed, rather pointed, about l^ in the head, 

 flattened, and its length three-fourths its breadth; eyes small, lateral, 

 about 5 in the head. If in the interorbital space, and If in the snout; 

 interorbital space broad and flat; mouth broad, the maxillar}^ reaching 

 the eye; lips rather thin and broad; teeth sharp and in a single series 

 in each jaw; gill-openings lateral, directly in front of the pectoral, and 



ASPASMA CICONIJi:. 



the isthmus very broad across. Origin of the dorsal nearer the tip of 

 the pectoral than the base of the caudal, and its last ray united to the 

 caudal peduncle by a membrane; anal beginning- behind the origin of 

 the dorsal, its last ray even with the last dorsal ray and also adnate 

 to the caudal peduncle by a membrane; pectorals broad, rounded, and 

 short; disk rounded, its edge fringed, about li in the length of the 

 head; caudal short, rounded, and a little greater than the pectoral; 

 posterior portion of the body compressed laterally so that the depth 

 of the caudal peduncle is equal to the interorbital space. 



Color in alcohol uniform pale ])rown with a red tint behind the eyes 

 and on the caudal. This description from two examples from Waka- 

 noura, measuring 2f and 2f inches respectiveh^ 



This species is distinguished from Asjxirma lainima by the ends of 

 the dorsal and anal reaching the caudal and thus their bases are upon 

 the caudal peduncle; it also differs in the larger number of fin rays. 



Our specimens from the tide pools, near Wakanoura, No. 7136, 

 Leland Stanford Junior Universit}^ museum. 



