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Here described from the 4 typical specimens, the longest 23 cm. in 

 lenoth. 



Many specimens Avere takt'ii l»y eJordan and Snyder at Tok>'o, Aomori, 

 Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Hakodate, Kobe, and Tsuruga. It is abundant 

 throughout Japan, but is not known to the northward of Hakodate. 

 (Named for Iveinosuke Otaki.) 



3. HEXAGRAMMOS ABURACO Jordan and Starks, new species. 

 ABUUAKO (I^^AT THING). 



Head 3iin length without caudal; depth 4^. Dorsal XTX, 22; anal 

 21, Scales below lateral line 110 to 12<». Kye 4f in head; maxillary J 

 2|; interoi"l)ital width (bone only) 0^. ^ 



jSIaxillary reaching to front of pupil. Outer teeth enlarged in both 

 jaws; vomer with teeth; palatines toothless. A short flap above eye, 

 fringed at the edge; its length is scarcely e(iual to diameter of pui)il; 

 a pair of very small tentacles at ntipe. 



Fig. 1.— HEXAGRAMMOS ABUKACO. 



Notch between dorsals shallow, the last spine not longer than the 

 one preceding it; the sixth spine 2f in head; the last -i. Third dorsal 

 ray 3 in head; tips of last dorsal rays on the same vertical with tips 

 of last anal rays; origin of anal midwa}" between tip of snout and tips 

 of median caudal rays. Pectoral not quite reaching to tips of ven- 

 trals; it has 18 rays, their tips not much branched; the seventh raj' 

 from the top the longest. If in head. Ventrals reaching live-eighths 

 of distance from their base to front of anal. Caudal concave when tin 

 is closed. In life sometimes bright rust}' red with pearly spots; fins 

 rust}^ red, the lower dusky purplish, the red often replaced by dull 

 green. 



Scales everywhere strongly ctenoid, except on head, breast, and in 

 front of pectoral. Top of head to front of eyes, cheeks below and 

 above suborbital stay, and opercle, with fine cycloid .scales. Snout, 

 maxillar}', preorbiUd, suborbitals, including suborbital sta}^, mandible, 

 interopercle, and branchiostegals naked. Scales on base of jjectoral 



