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■ggg. Preopercle with 3 spines; head naked antex'iorXy . . Hoplohrotula, 12 



ff. Lateral line represented by three rows of pores, dorsal, lateral, and 



ventral; head with nnmerous spines and mucous pores; opercular 



spine straight Porogadm, 13 



cc. Pectoral with the lower rays free, produced beyond the upper; preopercle 

 with 3 spines; ventrals simple, well separated Pteroidonus, 14 



7. BROTULA Cuvier. 

 Brotula Cuvier, Regne Animal, 2d ed., II, 1S29, p. 296 [barhata). 



Body elongate, compressed, covered with minute, smooth scales; eye 

 moderate; mouth medium, with villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and 

 palatines; lower jaw included; each jaw with 3 barbels on each side. | 

 Dorsal tin long- and low, the dorsal and anal joined to the caudal. Ventral : 

 fins close together, very slender, each of two ra3\s separated at the tip. 

 Eight branchiostegals. Air bladder large, with 2 horns posteriorly. 

 One pyloric cfecum. Vertebra^ 16 + 39 = 55. Tropical. | 



{J>rotula, Spanish name of Brotula harhata.) 



7. BROTULA MULTIBARBATA Schlegel. j 



ITACHI-UWO (WEASEL-FISH); UMINAMAZU (SEA CAT-FISH). 



Brotuhi nibltibarbata .Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1847, p. 251, pi. iii, fig. 2; ; 

 Nagasaki. — Gunther, Cat. Fish., IV, 1862, p. 371; Japan, Celebes, Amboina, 

 Buru. — IsHiKAW.A, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 26; Tokyo. — Steindachner, Reise 

 H. M. S. Aurora, 1898, p. 216; Kobe (good (lescrijition). 



Brottda japonica Steindaciixek and Doderlein, Fische Japans, IV, 1887, p. 24; 

 Tokyo. 



Head, 5 (in total); depth. 4 to 4^ (in total); D., C, and A. 186; 

 P. 22; V. 1; B. 8; Csec. pylor, 2; interorbital space, f the eye; ven- ' 

 tral, f of head. 



Body elongate, the tail ver}^ compressed and terminating in a point: 

 swelling of trunk behind pectorals somewhat more tlian half the depth 

 of th(^ body. Head rounded above; eye equal to snout; snout with a 

 slight projection above in front; maxillary extends to the posterior 

 border of the eye; jaws about equal, or the lower a little shorter; a 

 band of velvety teeth in jaws, on vomer, and on palatines; opercular i 

 margin [)ointed l)ehind; operculum with a strong spine posteriorly; 

 mandibular barbels 6, the longest about t^ the head; 6 superior barbels, 

 these i longer than those beloAV. 



Body and head covered with small, smooth, round scales, the sur- 

 face finely granulated. 



Dorsal, anal, and caudal continuous, and the last terminating in a , 

 rounded point; the origin of the dorsal is about over that of the pec-l 

 toral; pectorals inferior, rounded, hardly half the head; ventrals close" 

 together, of 2 filaments united, the inner ^ shorter than the outer. 

 Vent in about f the total length. Lateral line superior, with a dis- 

 tinct curve anteriorlv. 



