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Color in alcohol brown above, with dark brown reticulating lines 

 inclosing- pale l)lotches and spots; below white, the sides light, with 

 rather deep brown reticulations; spinous dorsal gray, dark In front, 

 and behind the third and fourth spines a light vertical streak; soft 

 dorsal pale brown, with a l)rown blotch at the base of each ray; anal 

 pjile, Avith pale l)rown streaks on the membrane; pectorals very pale, 

 with small brown spots above: ventrals pale, more or less broadlv 



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Fig. y.— Callionymus virgis. 



spotted with broAvn, and gray-l)rown, with 3 or 4 gray crossbars, 

 and a Inroad Idackish band along the lowei- edge. Described from a 

 single small specimen 2^ inches long, from Misaki. 



Type No. 7189, Leland Stanford Junior University .Museum. 



This species, known only from the specimen described above, is 

 easily distinguished from all others of the genus by its exceedingly 

 long dorsal spines, the dorsal tins lacing joined tog-ether by a mem- 

 brane, and the subtruncate caudal. 



{v!r</is, under the Avhip.) 



HFMMARY. 



Family I. Dkacoxettii),?!;. 



I. Dntroiicttii Jordan and Fowler. 



1. xmini Jordan and F.wler; Suruj^a Bay. 



Family II. Callionvmid.f.. 

 II. Oilliitrlchthi/s Jordan and Fowler. 



2. j(tponlcus (Houttuyn); Nagasaki, AVakanonra. 



3. varlegnius (Schlegel); Nagasaki. 



4. (/un/.w*(,'< Jordan and F)wler; Nagasaki, AVakanonra. 



