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lit.s in; the lower jaw projects; teeth in small rough patches or band.s 

 in the jaws; nosti'ils close together, directly in front of the (\ye, and 

 the posterior very large, 4 in the eye; lips thick, Heshy, and papillose; 

 interorbital space If in the eye; ver}" slightly elevated; opercle above 

 with a strong. ])ackwardly produced spine; 9 scales along the posterioi 

 edge of the preoperculum on the operculum cheeks scaled; gill- 

 opening, very large, the membrane free from the isthmus; gill-rakers,] 

 6, 11, very long, slender, pointed, and 1\ in the eye. Dorsal inserted! 

 before the posterior edge of the gill-opening, third and fourth species 

 longest and strongest, about 2i in the depth of the body; soft dorsal 

 highest in front, nearly equal to the highest dor.sal spines; the third 

 anal spine the longest to the eye, the soft part of the spine nearly as 



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Fig. 2. — O.sTicHTHV.s .taponicits. 



high as the soft dor.sal; pectorals low, a little in front of the dorsal, 

 not reaching the vent, and 1^ in the head; ventrals below pectorals 

 shorter, and the spines a triHe shorter than the fourth dorsal spine. 

 Lateral line inclined to the base of the caudal from the upper part of 

 the head. Caudal peduncle rather thick, compressed, and If in the 

 ventral spine. 



Color, in alcohol, pale; in life, bright crim.son. Length, 13i inches. 

 Here described from a specimen from Giran, Formosa. 



Of this fine large fish we have examined a living specimen in the 

 Asakusa Aquarium from Misaki, and another from Giran, Formo.sa. 

 It is occasionally taken ott' the rocky headlands of Southern Japan, 

 but it is nowhere common. Our figure is taken from the Giran 

 specimen. 



