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straight. Lateral line high, nearly concurrent with the margin of the 

 dorsal, and forming a l)hint angle a little posteriori}' concurrent with 

 that of the soft dorsal. Only a few pores on the caudal peduncle, which 

 is compressed and ec^ual to the first anal spine. 



Color in alcohol pale brown, with a broad vertical band from the 

 origin of the spinous dorsal through eye, al)out equal to it in width; a 

 narrow band froiu the supraoccipital region to the tip of the snout; a 

 l)road ])roA\n band, a little less in width than the length of the pectoral. 



Fig. f). — CoRADioN desmotes. 



and margined narrowly with darker, from the spinous doi'sal aho^•e 

 to the belly, and a similar ))and of about e(|ual widtli from soft dorsal 

 to the soft anal; anterior part of soft dorsal with a black ocellus, the 

 edge white, equal to the eye; caudal with the base brown and the outer 

 half gray; ventrals blackish; alight ])and over caudal peduncle behind 

 and the anterior part of the base of the caudal. Length, M I inches. 

 Described from a single fine specimen taken at Nagasaki. 



Tijpe. — No. 7192, Leland Stanford Junior Universit}^ Museum. 



(fyfO'//fJr;/cr, a prisoner, alluding to tlie narrow cross-bars.) 



