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divided siniilur patches on the mandible; pahitines and vomer tooth- 

 less; 2 nasal l)arl)els, 2 lonoer maxillaries. and 2 still longer outer 

 mentals which are about ecjual to the length of the head; inner mental 

 barbels far apart and nuich shorter than the maxillaries; interorbital 

 space broad and uiorc or less flattened, (rill openings large, rather 

 inferior, and the meml)rane with a deep notch; isthmus broad; bi-an- 

 chiostegals larg(\ 



Bod}' naked and smooth; top of head smooth. 



Dorsal beginning beft)re the tip of the pectoral spine, a little nearer 

 tip of snout th'.m base of ventrals. its spine smooth, without serrations, 

 and more than half the height of the tin; the adipose tin is long, low, 

 ascending gradually till al)ove and l)eyond the tip of the anal, and 

 adnate to the caudal ))y lueans of the rudiuientary rays of the latter; 

 origin of anal a little nearer the tip of caudal than the tip of snout, 



Fl'... 2. — LloBAUKUS ilJilNl. 



and well separated from the caudal; caudal truncately rounded; pec- 

 toral spine smooth, sharply pointed, slightly curved, and more than 

 half the length of the fin, which is equal to the width of the head, ven- 

 trals small, beginning be3"ond tip of dorsal, a little longer than the 

 pectoral spine, and not reaching the anal. 



Length ?>'k inches. 



This description from a sjiecimen from Tsu3'ama. 



Southern Japan, our specimens from Niigata in Echigo (collected 

 by Eitarolijima); f rom Tsuvama and from Nagoya in Owari (collected 

 by K. Otaki). 



(Na)ned for Di\ Rein, an eminent student of Japanese history.) 



To the L'ujbagrus reini probably belongs a species described in 

 manuscript by Dr. Ishikawa, under the vernacidar name of Al'aza 

 (red thing). 



The body comparatively short and thick. The head flattened, rather small, its 

 width 3| in the total length of the body; its depth about I; its length 3i. The 

 Hl)nies stout; the pectoral spine straight, situated at 3J in the distance from the 

 snout to the dorsal, and not serrated, and with a groove on the ventral side. The 

 dorsal fm higher than long, its origin is midway between the anal and the snout, its 



