NO 1305. THE DRAGONETS OF JAPAN-JORDAN AND FOWLER. 95Y 



light edge, the dorsal filaments generally shorter, and the spinous 

 dorsal generally with more or less black posteriorly. 



Here described from specimens from Tokyo, the largest Si inches 

 long. Our specimens are from Tokyo, the original types collected by 

 Otaki and many others taken by Jordan and Snyder. Others are 

 from Misaki, O'taru, AVakanoura. Kobe, Hakodate. Aomori, Hiro- 

 shima, Nagasaki, and Matsushima Bay. 



This species, yaria])le in its coloration, is easily distinguished ])y its 

 broad interorbital space. 



This species is yery abundant tliroughout almost all parts of Japan, 

 being scarcely less common than Ca//;<nn/ijn/.^ r((]enr!<jinrsi, though 

 living in rather deeper water. The male is well distinguished by the 

 form^of the dorsal tin, the first two spines beino- filamentous, the others 

 proo-ressively shorter. A still better diagnostic mark is the color of 

 thermal fin," which has dark gray or black oblique crossbars on the 

 membranes. These marks are faint or wanting in the female, but in 

 ])()th sexes the dorsal spines are progressively shortened from the first. 

 {h,n;f,',in,'!, vernacular name of rali;oti>/inus althdis: lew, ri^l; 

 tnnir'), net catch, a name applied to small fish.) 



12. CALLIONYMUS VIRGIS Jordan and Fowler, new species. 



Head 3 in length; depth 74; D. 1V-1»; A. 9; P. 19; V. I, 5. Body 

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

 ])ackward. Head compressed, so that the depth is about one-half its 

 width; snout pointed, compressed, and equal to the eye; eyes large, 

 close together, -i in the length, and 3 in the width of the head; mouth 

 rather large, and the maxillary extending- to within a short distance of 

 the eye; teeth in villiform bands in the jaws; lips moderate; preoper- 

 cular spine with 3 teeth above, and a short spine in front directed for- 

 ward; head smooth above. Gill openings small, round, as far apart 

 as the distance between the outer margins of the eyes, and nearer the 

 posterior margin of the latter than the origin of the pectorals. 



Origin of the spinous dorsal nearer the posterior margin of the eye 

 l)y two-thirds its diameter than the origin of the soft dorsal; dorsal 

 spines all verv long, slender, and filamentous, the first and third eciual, 

 l)ut shorter than the second and fourth, which reach the base (.f the 

 caudal; the meml)rane of the spinous dorsal high, and joined from 

 behind the last spine to the first dorsal ray; soft dorsal high in front 

 and posteriorly, the margin concave or emarginate, and the last ray 

 produced to the base of the caudal; anal low and the rays produced 

 posteriorly, but the last not reaching the caudal; pectorals ])road, the 

 middle rays produced, with a sharp angle behind; ventrals about e(iiial 

 to the head; caudal subtruncate, the margin slightly convex, and the 

 upper rays nearly as long as the middle; caudal peduncle compressed, 

 about two-thirds the eye. 



