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sized, conical teeth, the outer row enlarg-ed; teeth on vomer, and 

 usuiilly but not always a .small patch on the p•^latines; preopercle 

 unarmed; a fringed supraorbital cirrus, large or small; oill membranes 

 broadly connected, free from the isthmus; gill-rakers short, tubercle- 

 like. Scales small, mostly ctenoid, sometimes parti}' or wholl}' cy- 

 cloid; head more or less scaly, without spines; nostril simple, round, 

 with a pore behind it. Lateral lines usually 5 on each side. Dorsal 

 fin long, with a deep emargination between the spines and the soft 

 rays; dorsal spines slender, 1!» to 22 in number; anal fin elongate, 

 with a single rudimentary^ spine; ra\^s of pectorals and anal exserted 

 and almost simple; pectoral rounded with broad, procurrent base, the 

 rays thick; ventrals well developed, placed at a considerable distance 

 behind the root of the pectorals; caudal subtruncate. Branchiostegals, 

 6. P3doric cteca numerous (about 13.) No air ])ladder. Species of 

 rather large size and bright coloration; al)undant in the North Pacific 

 on both shores, extending southward from Bering Sea. 

 (f^, six; ypoe/Ajxf}^ line.) 



a Cheeks not fully scaled, the suborbital stay at least naked; no occipital flaps. 

 h Fourth lateral line not forked and not extending past tips of ventrals. 



c Fifth lateral line joining median line on breast otakii, 2. 



cc Fifth lateral line not joined to median line on breast aburaco, 3. 



bh Fourth lateral line forked in front of ventrals; the upper l)ranch not extending 



to tips of ventrals; back with obscure dark bands odogrammtts, 4. 



bbb Fourth lateral line running to above middle of anal; elevated about five scales 

 above fifth lateral line; back with dark spots and cloudings . .' .lagocephalus, 5. 



2. HEXAGRAMMOS OTAKII Jordan and Starks. 

 ABURA AINAME (FAT GREENLING). 



Labra.r Jiexagrammux Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1843, p. 53, pi. xxiii, 



Nagasaki (not of Pallas). 

 Chirus hexagrammuK Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. Japan, a])ont 18(57, ]». 80. — Ishi- 



KAWA, Prel. Cat., 897, p. 51; Tokyo, Kii. 

 Hexagrammus asjyer Steindachner and Doderlein, Fische Japans, IV, 1887, 



p. 266; Tokyo (not of Pallas). 

 Hexagrammos otakii Jordan and Starks, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 1895, p. 800; 



Tokyo. — Jordan and Gilbert, Rept. Fur Seal ExpL, III, 1898, p. 453; 



Tokyo.— Jordan and Evekmann, Fish. N. M. Am., II, 1898, p. 1867;" Tokyo. 



Head 3f in length without caudal. Depth -ii to 4^. Dorsal XIX 

 or XX, 22; anal 21 to 23. Series of scales running downward and 

 backward below third lateral line, 107 to 112. Eye 4f in head; max- 

 illary 2f to 3; interorbital space (bone onl}^) 6i. 



Maxillary reaching past front of eye scarcely to front of pupil. 

 Outer teeth enlarged and rather uneven on both jaws; palatines tooth- 

 less; vomer with teeth similar to the smaller teeth on jaws; the band 

 on premaxillaries wider in front than on front of mandible. A short 

 fringed flap above eye, but little longer than diameter of pupil; a pair 



