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and resemble the cotypes of the species which were dredged off 

 Kinkozan by the Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, except that 

 they were very dark in color, tlie general pattern of coloration remain- 

 ing the same. Other examples, very light in color, were obtained 

 by the deep-water fishermen at Mororan. 



ALCICHTHYS ALCICORNIS (Herzenstein). 



Hakodate market. Occasionally an example has one or both of 

 the opercular spines bifid or trifid, the upper prong being longest. 



FURCmA OSIM.ffi Jordan and Starks. 



Hakodate, Aikawa, and Misaki pools. A small patch of prickles 

 is present beliind the base of the pectoral. 



FURCINA ISHIKAW^ Jordan and Starks. 



Aikawa pools. 



OCYNECTES MASCHALIS Jordan and Starks. 



Same and Misaki pools. 



This species is recorded from Sakhalin by Tanaka,^ but this identi- 

 fication is not without doubt as his specimen has 17 dorsal and 14 

 anal rays, while 0. masclialis has 13 or 14 dorsal and 10 or 11 anal rays, 

 many specimens not showing any variation from these numbers. 



OCYNECTES MODESTUS Snyder. 



Plate 56, fig. 1. 



Ocynectes modestus Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 40, 1912, p. 539. 



Pools at Same. 



0. maschalis has simple or bifid tentacles attached to the fleshy 

 covering of the nasal spines. The posterior nostrils are tubular and 

 located behind the nasal spines. The tentacles of the lateral line 

 are similar to those of 0. modestus. 



PSEUDOBLENNIUS PERCOIDES Giinther. 



One example was secured in the market at Tokyo which has the 

 small, blue spots on the side as figured by Temminck and Schlegel. ^ 

 Many other examples had the blue underlaid with dusky, and the 

 former disappearing in the preservative has left dark spots. Some 

 of these are surrounded by lighter rings. In occasional examples 

 the upper half of the body is finely speckled, there being in addition 

 a mere trace of dusky bars. Usually the same region is more or 

 less definitely barred, in rare instances the bars fusing and forming 

 an almost solid brownish coat. In spite of this variation the color 

 is quite distinctive, the lower parts being always spotted, the lateral 

 line not having conspicuous blackish spots either elongate or grouped 

 in twos or threes, and there being no coin-like silver spots on the 

 sides. Ocelli are present on the upper and lower caudal rays. The 

 snout is notably long and pointed, the maxillary extends well beyond 

 the eye, the nasal tentacles are very small, the orbital tentacles 

 are broad and fringed along one or both edges, and no nuchal or 



1 Annotations Zoologicse Japonenses, vol. 6, pt. 4, 1908, p. 249. 

 i Fauna Japonica pi. 79a, figs 2 and 3, labeled Pseudoblenniua. 



