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the long-est; anal lower than soft doi-sal, its orit^in between the second 

 and the third dorsal raN's, and its last ray produced; pectorals with an 

 angle behind, the middle rays the longest, and the lower the shortest; 

 ventrals a little longer than the pectorals, and their outer rays the 

 shortest; caudal about equal to the head, upper rays little shorter than 

 the middle, while the lower are graduated; caudal peduncle greatly 

 compressed, its depth about f the eye. 



Color of male in alcohol brown above, beautifully mottled, and with 

 minute spots, some forming rings and blotches with light centers, and 

 traces of several broad crossbars; sides of the trunk with live or six 

 dark brown blotches; lower surface of the bod}^ white; spinous dorsal 

 gray; a jet black ocellus behind the last spine, and in front each spine 

 marked with darker and white; soft dorsal with three narrow brown 

 bands; anal with a median blackish band, and its edge white; pecto- 

 rals with a few pale spots above; ventrals grajdsh, the edges and the 

 tips of the rays whitish; caudal with about four or five crossbars made 

 up of small spots, its edge below white, above which is a broad black 

 l)and. The female is much like the male but has the spinous dorsal 

 low. the first ra}^ not longer than the others, and with much black 

 posteriorly; the anal fin pale; never an ocellus. 



Our description above is from examples from Nagasaki and Waka- 

 noura, the largest about 5^^ inches in length. We have specimens 

 from Tsuruga, Wakanoura, Nagasaki, Same, and Niigata. It is evi- 

 dently generally distributed along the coast. 



The male is well distinguished by the high spines and the black spot 

 on the posterior membrane. The female resembles the young of ( '. 

 valenciennem^ but the black spot on the dorsal . occupies nearly half 

 the fin. 



{lu?iatus, crescent shaped.) 



7. CALLIONYMUS VALENCIENNESI Schlegel. 

 XEZUMEGOCHI (RAT KOCHl); NEZUPO (RAT TAIL). 



Calllonymus jajjonicus CuviER and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XII, p. 299; 

 Japan, coll. Langsdorf (not of Houttuyn). 



CalUoiujmus reeved Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, Fishes, 1844, p. 60, pi. x.xxvi 

 (female; on a drawing made in Canton not type) . 



CalUoni/mus ralenciennesl Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1845, p. 153, pi. 

 Lxxvni, fig. 3; Nagasaki (figure very poor). 



CaUioni/mus punctatus Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 210 (after ('. jajMniciis 

 Cuvier and Valenciennes) . 



CalUonymus richanlKoni Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., VI, 1854, Japan, p. 414; 

 Nagasaki. — Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., XXVI, 1857, Japan, III; Nagasaki.— 

 Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1900, p. 370; Tokyo. 



CalUonymus curvicornis GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish., Ill, 1861, p. 145; China. — Ishikawa, 

 Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 37; Tokyo, Boshu.— Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 1900, p. 370; Yokohama (not of Cuvier and Valenciennes, from Bour- 

 bon Island). 



