762 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxv. 



Length, 151 inches (403 millimeters). 



This description from the specimen described })v Jordiin and Sny- 

 der, obtained at Nanaura, in Boshu, near Misaki, and presented by 

 the Imperial University of Japan to the Stanford University Collection. 



{armatus^ armed.) 



13. POROGADUS Goode and Bean. 

 Poroiiadnii CrOimK Mu\ Bean, Proc. IT. S. Nut. Mu8., VIII, 1885, p. 002 (»*fes). 



Body brotuliform, much compressed; head with numerous spines 

 on interorbital space, 2 pairs on the shoulders, 1 at angle of oper- 

 culum, and a double series on angle of preoperculum ; head with 

 numerous mucous pores, as in Bassozetus; mouth large; snout mod- 

 erate, not projecting much beyond the upper jaw; jaws nearly equal 

 in front; teeth in villiform bands in jaws and on vomer and palatines; 

 barbel none; gill-openings wide, membranes narrowlv united, not 

 attached to the isthmus; gills 4; gill lamina^ short; gill-rakers mod- 

 erate, numerous; pseudobranchiie absent; caudal fin of few rays, on a 

 very narrow base, not prolonged, scarcely differentiated from the 

 vertical tins; dorsal and anal tins well developed; pectorals simple, 

 moderate; each ventral a single bilid ray close to the humeral sym- 

 physis; branchiostegals 8; scales small; lateral line apparently triple 

 or replaced by 3 series of pores — 1 close to ventral outline, 1 median, 

 and another along base of dorsal. 



{nopog^ pore; (raduK, the cod iish.) 



13. POROGADUS GUNTHERI Jordan and Fowler, new species. 



Head, 6f; depth, llf; head and trunk, 3| in tail; depth of body, 1| 

 in head; eye, 6; snout, 3i; maxillary, If; interorbital space. 3i; width 

 between maxillaries, 2|; pectoral. If; ventral. If. 



Body very elongate, compressed so that it is not as broad as the 

 head, and gradually tapering posteriorly into a long, slender tail. 

 Head about equal to trunk, compressed, oblong; snout broad, convex 

 above, and nnich greater than e3^e; eye lateral, its position nuich before 

 middle of head; jaws equal, mouth l>road, the maxillary expanded 

 distally, its posterior edge concave, and equal to the eye, and project- 

 ing far beyond; supplemental maxillary well developed and not con- 

 cealed by the orbitals; teeth in narrow, villiform bands in jaws, on 

 vomer, and on palatines; lips thin; tongue small, thick, pointed, and 

 free in front; anterior nostrils not evident, the posterior \erv large, 

 in front of eye; upper protile straight from snout to occiput; head 

 with many spines; opercular spine sharp; gill-opening very large, the 

 membrane narrowly free over the narrow isthnuis; a narroAV median 

 band of villiform teeth along the floor of the pharynx and the roof 

 also with an area of villiform teeth; pseudobranchire reduced to 2 



