NO. 1009. 



JAPANESE SHORE FISHES— SNYDER. 



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is pale, bluish black, with a splash of dense blue black, broad near 

 base of fin and rapidly narrowing outward to a tip near end of 

 seventh ray, counting from above. In young examples the black 

 region of the pectoral has a few elongate, pearly marks of very 

 irregular shape. 



LEPIDOTRIGLA JAPONICA (Bleeker). 



KagoshiniJi and Xagusaki markets. 



CHELIDONICHTHYS KUMU (Lesson and Gamot). 



Tokyo, Misaki, Tsuruga, and Kagosliima markets. Specimens 

 from the Tokyo market measure 380 milHmeters in length. 



Family CEPHALACANTHID^. 



DACTYLOPTENA GILBERTl Snyder. 



Plate 57, fig. 1. 



DactyloptenagilbertiSiJYDE-R, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 36, 1909, p. 604. 



Kagoshima. 



Dactyloptena jordani Franz appears to be identical with this 

 species. 



Fig. 1. — COMPARISON between snout, interoebital space, and in angulation of region between 



POSTTEMPORAL PROCESSES OF DACTYLOPTENA GILBERTl (1) AND DACTYLOPTENA ORIENTALIS. 



Family AGONID^. 



TILESmA GIBBOSA Schmidt. 



Many specimens that have bocMi dredged in rather deep water were 

 found in the miirket at Mororan. They appear to have the head 

 somewhat more smooth than those described by Schmidt. The 

 maxillary is also longer, reaching considerably beyond the middle 

 of the snout. 



AGONOMALUS PROBOSCIDALIS (Valenciennes). 



One example from Otaru measures 105 milUmeters in length. The 

 dorsal has 10 spines, 6 rays; the pectoral 10 rays. The abdomen is 

 devoid of spines, each lateral i)late bearing a minute, rounded knob. 

 The suj)raocular ridges are pronounced, thus making the intcrorbital 

 area very concave. A larger specimen (155 millimetei"s long) was 



