NO. 1305. THE DRAGONETS OF JAPAN— JORDAN AND FOWLER. 949 



This sti-ongl}- marked species is known onl}' from Schlegel's account, 

 no specimens having been taken by later writers. Its red coloration, 

 the reduction of the number of hooks on the preopercular spine, and 

 the great height of the soft dorsal should distinguish it. 



Omura, the type locality, is about 1.5 miles north of Nagasaki. 



{olfiix, high; velvm, sail.) 



6. CALLIONYMUS LUNATUS Schlegel. 



CalHonymm lunatus Schj.egej., Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1845, p. 155, pi. lxxviii, 

 fig. 4; Nagasaki (male).— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., Ill, ]8(il, p. 146 

 (copied). 



CiilUonymus mframundus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, p. 129; .Tapan 

 (female; greenish, marbled with white, first dorsal blackish). 



Head H m length; depth, 10; D. lV-9; A. 9; P. ll>; V. I, :.. 



Bod}'^ elongate and compressed above; trunk broader than deep and 

 tapering backwards. Head compressed so that its depth is 2i its 

 width; snout rather pointed, compressed, its length equal to the eye, 



i;'IG. 5.— CALLIONYMUS LUNAXrS. 



and about f its own width; e3^es close together, on top of the head, 

 directed upward, 3| in the length and 2f in the width of the head; 

 mouth small, inferior, the upper jaw protruding, and the maxillary 

 not reaching the eye; teeth in villiform bands in the jaws; lower lip 

 rather thick, and broad on each side; preopercular spine with two 

 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 nearer the latter than the origin of the pectoral. 



Oi-igin of the spinous dorsal midway or a little nearer the posterior 

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

 slender, the first produced into a long filament so that its entire length 

 is a little more than the entire space between its own origin and the tip 

 of the snout, or a little less than that between the former and the base 

 of the caudal; the others are about equal; soft dorsal high, its origin 

 nearer the tip of the snout than the base of the caudal, and the last ra}' 



