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spinous dorsal plain; the soft dorsal with numerous small ])rown spots; 

 margin of anal blackish brown; the pectoral plain; the ventrals with 

 violaceous diffused on the outer portion of the inner rays, and the 

 caudal with 5 or 6 series of transverse spots. 



Length 71>" (about 34 inches); Nagasaki (Bleeker). 



This species is known to us from Bleeker's description only. 



II. CALLIONYMUS BENITEGURI Jordan and Snyder. 



Callionynms beniteguri Jordan and Snyder, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mns., 1900, p. .'>76, 

 pi. XVII ; Tokyo Bay. 



Head 3 in length; depth 10; D. lV-9; A. 9; P. 19; V. I, 5. Body 

 elongate, conipressed above, the trunk broader than deep, and taper 

 ing backward. Head compressed so that its depth is 2i in its width; 

 snout broad, compressed, and its depth greater than the eye; the inter- 

 orbital space is broader than that of any other species of this genus; 

 the eves well separated, about 5 in the length and 4^ in the width of 

 the head; mouth small, inferior, the upper jaw projecting, and the 

 maxillary reaching as far posteriorly as the nostril; teeth in villiform 

 bands in the jaws; lower lip rather thick, and broad on each side; 

 preopercular spine with about 3 large teeth turned upward and a short 

 spine projecting from its base forward, embedded in the skin; head 

 smooth. Gill openings round, nearer the origin of the dorsal than 

 the posterior margin of the eyes, and midway, or nearer the latter than 

 the origin of the pectoral. 



Origin of spinous dorsal a little nearer, or midway between, the 

 posterior margin of the eyes than the origin of the soft dorsal; the 

 spines rather short, slender, the first two ending in tilaments of about 

 equal length, and about as long as the height of the lin; sometimes soft 

 dorsal of luiiform height, and the last ray the longest and produced till 

 it is much longer than the last anal ray; origin of the anal a little in 

 front of the third dorsal ray; pectorals very broad, and with a blunt 

 angle ])ehind; ventrals large, nearl}' equal to the head; caudal long, 

 the middle ra^ s produced. 



Color of male in alcohol deep brown a))ove, mottled, and with 

 minute dark spots and lines, some forming rings around pale spots 

 and blotches, and traces of about six pale broad crossbars; sides of the 

 trunk with six brown l)lotches; lower surface of the bod}" white; 

 spinous dorsal gray, with white spots and lines, and blackish near its 

 margin posteriorly; soft dorsal gray with numerous Avhite ocelli, and 

 three rows of longitudinal blackish spots; anal dark gray with o])lique 

 wavy white lines; pectoral with small brown spots above; ventral 

 grajnsh brown, becoming blackish along the lower margin of the tins; 

 caudal gray, with many white ocelli and black spots, and its lower 

 margin broadly blackish. The female differs from the male chiefly in 

 having pale colors, the anal being very pale, the ventrals pale with a 



