446 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 42. 



Family URANOSCOPIDiE. 



URANOSCOPUS JAPOPnCUS Houttuyn. 



Tokyo market; Shimizu, seined near shore. 



URANOSCOPUS BICINCTUS Temminck and Schlegel. 



Shimizu, where specimens were collected with the seine. 



GNATHAGNUS ELONGATUS (Temminck and Schlegel). 



One specimen from the market at Kagoshima. 

 Family CALLIONYMID^. 



CALLIORICHTHYS DORYSSUS Jordan and Fowler. 



Hakodate market; Shimizu, in shallow water near shore. 



CALLIURICHTHYS JAPONICUS (Houttuyn). 



Shimizu; taken with the seine. 



CALLIONYMUS LUNATUS Temminck and Schlegel. 



A pale colored specimen from Nagasaki closely resembles that 

 figured by Temminck and Schlegel. The first dorsal spine though 

 broken reaches past the middle of the soft dorsal, the spines following 

 it being somewhat shorter than the anterior dorsal rays. The pos- 

 terior dorsal rays are elongate, reaching the base of caudal; the last 

 anal rays are similar. There is a black, lunate spot on the posterior 

 edge of the spinous dorsal and a diffuse, dark band on the lower part 

 of the caudal; the anal is dusky along its median portion; the soft 

 dorsal has a few elongate, dusky spots, and similar ones appear on 

 the upper part of the caudal. An examination of a series of speci- 

 mens shows some variation in both structure and color. The height 

 of all the fins is often much reduced, the filament of the first dorsal 

 spine being very short and the last rays of the dorsal and anal not 

 reaching the base of the caudal; the fourth and third dorsal spines 

 are sometimes successively shortened. The color is often intense, the 

 black spot spreading over a considerable part of the spinous dorsal and 

 becoming more or less broken up in an occasional specimen; the 

 dusky region of the anal becoming restricted in area and intense in 

 color, the edge of the fin at the same time growing white, the dusky, 

 lower portion of the caudal becoming modified in a similar way, so 

 that the black band of the anal appears to be continued on the 

 caudal; the dusky spots of both soft dorsal and upper part of caudal 

 growing more elongate, narrow and distinct. The specimen figured 

 by Jordan and Fowler ' is a brightly colored example with short fins. 

 Mr. Regan's ^ opinion that this specimen represents C. inframundus 

 Gill," and that it is not Temminck and Schlegel' s species does not 



> Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, 1903, p. 949, fig. 5. 

 » Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 15, p. 24. 

 » Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 11. P. 129. 



