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3. CALLIURICHTHYS VARIEGATUS 1 Schlegel). 

 OiUloni/mits ntrtfif/atiix 't^CHhEi.m., Fauna Japonica, Pois8., 1845, ji. 158; Nagasaki. 



Head 2| to 21 in length; depth 7i to Si; D. lV-8; A. T; P. IT; V. I, 5. 

 Body moderately elongate, much compressed, especially forward, and 

 with the greatest depth about the anterior dorsal region; trunk broader 

 than deep and tapering l)ackward. Head compressed above so that its 

 depth is 21; in its breadth; snout long, blunt, compressed, its width at 

 the corners of the mouth a little more than the eye, its depth three- 

 fifths its length, its greatest width equal to its length, and 2| in the 

 head; a bony ridge in front of each e3'e, e3'es close together, on top of 

 the head, directed upward, H to 2 in the snout 3 to 3i in the greatest 

 width, and 4^ to 5 in the length of the head; mouth small, inferior, 

 the upper jaw protruding and the maxillar}^ reaching three-fourths to 

 three-fifths in the space between the tip of the snout and the anterior 

 margin of the eye; teeth in villiform bands in the jaws; lips rather thin. 



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the lower broad on each side; preoperculum with a short sharp spine 

 directed backward, always shorter than the eye, the upper edge with 

 small, sharp antrorse barbs, and the base in front with a short, sharp 

 spine directed forward; top of the head behind the e3'es forming a 

 broad, rugosel\' striate patch. Gill openings small, round, on the 

 upper surface of the body a short distance in front of the origin of 

 the dorsal, as far apart as the space between the outer margins of the 

 e^'es, and a trifle nearer the origin of the pectoral than the posterior 

 margin of the eye. 



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

 posterior margin of the eye than the origin of the soft dorsal; spines 

 long, slender, and the first two produced into long filaments till they are 

 e(pial to three-sevenths the length of the l)ody; the dorsal spines are 

 graduated from the first two. which are the longest; origin of the soft dor- 

 sal nearer the base of the caudal than the tip of the snout, the fin high, 

 uniform, and the last ray the longest and produced; origin of the anal 



