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Type No. 7187, Leland Stanford. Junior University Museum; cotypes 

 are in the U. S. National Museum. 



We have many examples from Aomori, Tsuruga, Kobe, and Nagasaki; 

 also a series from Tokyo from Prof. Otaki and the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission steamer Albatross dredgings at Station 3722 in Owari Bay and 

 Station 3777 in Matsushima, Bay of Kinkwasan, We have also a small 

 specimen from Tsuruga Ba3\ It seems to inhabit rather deeper waters 

 than Call lony urns Taleiiclennesl. 



{jJagris^ under the lash.) 



g. CALLIONYMUS CALLISTE Jordan and Fowler, new species. 



Head 3i in length; depth 7i; D. IV-8; A. 7; P. 17; V. I, 5. Body 

 elongate, compressed above, the trunk broader than deep and tapering 

 backward. Head compressed so that its depth is two-thirds its width; 



A. 



Fig. 8.— C.\llionymus calliste. 



snout rather pointed and compressed; e} es close together on top of 

 the head, about 1^ in the snout, 1 in the length, and 3 in the width of 

 the head; mouth small, the jaws about equal and the maxillary not 

 reaching the eye; teeth in villiform bands in the jaws; lips rather 

 thin; peropercular spine with three teeth, and a short spine at the 

 base in front, directed forward; head smooth above. Gill opening 

 round, a little farther apart than the distance between the outermargins 

 of the eyes, and about midway between the posterior margin of the 

 latter and the origin of the pectoral. 



Origin of the spinous dorsal about halfway between the first third 

 of the eye and the origin of the soft dorsal; dorsal spines long, slen- 

 der, rather lirm, the first and second about equal, a little longer than 

 the base of the soft dorsal, the third longer than either, and its 

 extremity filamentous, the last the shortest, and its extremity also fila- 

 mentous, the last the shortest, and its extremit}^ also filamentous; the 



