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the i.sihmus narrow, and the mem])rane joined to it under the eye; 

 a band of villiform teeth along the Hoor of the pharynx, ])eginningon 

 the tongue and the pharyngobranchials above, forming a toothed area 

 posteriorly similar to those below; pseudobranchife small; gill-rakers 

 6 + 11 on first arch, somewhat thick, blunt, and long; branchiostegals, 8. ^ 



Head and ])ody covered with elongated, smooth, cycloid scales; bases 

 of pectoral and dorsal rays with small scales. 



Dorsal, anal, and caudal confluent, the latter ending in a point; the 

 membrane at base of the fins not fleshy; dorsal beginning about i the 

 length of the head from its posterior end; pectoral short, pointed, and 

 only reaching about f the space between its own origin and the vent; 

 ventrals only separated by a narrow space, inserted about midway 

 between the posterior edge of maxillarj' and tip of lower preopercular 

 spine; the inner filament the longer and reaching midwa}^ in the space 

 between its base and the vent, the undivided basal portions of ventrals 

 equal to li eye diameters. Lateral line rumiing along the upper third 

 of the body and disappearing at a point about i the length of the head 

 from the base of the caudal. 



Color in alcohol plumbeous grav, and more or less silvery l)elow. 



Length, 9^^ inches {234: millimeters). 



This description from the type No. (5370, Ichthyological Collections. 

 Leland Stanford Junior University Museum. Locality. Misaki. in 

 Sagami. Taken in deep water. 



Another is in the U. S. National Musmun (No. 49T0T). taken by 

 Mr. P. L. Jouy off Yokohama. 



{Kiii'o Shiwo, the Black Current, colo^ to inha])it.) 



12. HOPLOBROTULA Gill. 

 Iloplohroi Ilia (iihi., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Thila., ISd;}, p. 25:5 {armatd). 

 This genus differs from WafaN^ a and Slrmiho in having three strong 

 spines on the preopercle. Maxillary and anterior parts of head naked; 

 posterior upper part of maxillary free from the suborbital; ventral 

 fins bifid; lateral line simple; well developed anteriorly. 

 (oTtXov^ armature; Br(>ti(hi.) 



12. HOPLOBROTULA ARMATA (Schlegel). 



Brokdn iiniKtta^iswL^G-Ei., Fauna .Japoiiica, 1S47, p. 255; Nagasaki. 



Sircmbu arniala Steindachxer and iKiuEKLEiN, Fii^che Japan?, IV, 1887, p. 24; 



Tokyo. 

 Hoplobvotnla armata Jordan and Snydek, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1900, p. 767, 



pi. x.Yxviii; Nanaura in Boshu. 



Head, ^\ depth, 5i; D., 86; A., 74; P., 23; V., 2; scales in lateral 

 series, 112; scales between base of dorsal and lateral line, 9; scales 

 between lateral line and anal, 27; head and trunk, li in tail; depth of 

 head, li in its length; width of head. If in its length; eye, 5 in head; 



