N0.1296. JAPANESE CHJ^TODONTID.E— JORDAN ANT) FOWLEn. 539 



indistinct on tlio caudul peduncle. Ciiudal peduncle compressed and 

 2i in head. 



Color in alcohol deep Ijlackish brown, the scales everywhere with 

 their centers pale yellow and their edges broadly marg-ined with 

 blackish brown, forming a beautiful reticulated or netted pattern; edges 

 of soft dorsal, anal, and caudal l)roadly margined with yellow; pecto- 

 ral blackish with a large ^^ellow^ spot on its middle; ventrals and space 

 in front and between their bases deep ])lackish brown; along the sides 

 longitudinal dark bands are formed, due to the course of the scales. 

 Total length 6| inches. Here described from Okinawa specimens. 



Ti/j}e. — No. T190, Leland Stanford Junior University Museum. 

 Cotypes are in the U. S. National Museum. 



We have received three specimens of this handsome species from 

 Nafa, in Okinawa, two of them collected by Yonekichi Koneyama, the 

 other from the Imperial Universit}'. 



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7. CORADION Kaup. 



Corad'ion Kaup, AVieginann's Arcliiv, XXIV, 1860, ])1. i, p. 146 {chrysozonuii) . 



This genus is allied to Chcetodon^ differing in its angular form, the 

 base of most of the soft dorsal and anal being nearly vertical, in the 

 very small teeth, and in the small number (8 to 11) of the dorsal spines, 

 which are very strong; anal spines 3, verj^ strong; scales moderate. 

 Species few, of the P^ast Indies. 



{KOftaSi(n\ Kopi6iox\ a little girl.) 



13. CORADION DESMOTES Jordan and Fowler, new species. 



Head 2f ; depth U\ D. II, 22; A. Ill, IS; P. I, 11; V. I, 5; scales 

 4-52 ?-30. Body very short, deep, and compressed; scales small, except 

 on the sides a little in front, where they are enlarged, and l)ecom- 

 ing ver}" small on the head, soft dorsal, anal, and caudal. Head 

 moderate, the profile al)ove very concave and ascending steeply to the 

 dorsal; eye equal to the snout (?) a trifle over 3 in the snout (?) and 

 greater than the interorl)ital space; snout produced and pointed; mouth 

 small, the maxillary reaching to below the anterior nostril; nostrils 

 close together and a little before the eye; teeth projecting in brush- 

 like bands in the jaws; interorbital space convex; gill-opening long, 

 the membrane a narrow fold across the isthmus; gill rakers short, 

 weak, and not especially numerous; spines anterior to the third dorsal 

 spine short, the latter and the 3 or 4 succeeding, robust and longer 

 than the others, so that the fin is high in front; the anterior 7 soft 

 dorsal rays long, after which the others diminish so that a blunt angle 

 is formed along the margin; anal spine strong, the fii'st the shortest; 

 soft anal deep in the front and middle, with its edge rounded; pectoral 

 low, shorter than the head; ventrals longer than the pectorals, reach- 

 ing beyond the origin of the anal; caudal s(|uare, the edge nearh' 



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