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spinous dorsal; fourth from last dorsal spines; fifth from middle of 

 soft dorsal; sixth on front of caudal peduncle; seventh on caudal 

 peduncle at caudal base. Caudal with dusky behind submarginally, 

 and edge narrowly whitish behind. Soft dorsal and anal largely 

 brownish marginally, hind or upper edge of both fins appearing 

 narrowly whitish. Ventrals blackish terminally. 



Japan. A very handsome species, most contrasted in the young or 

 adolescent stages of its growth, 



U.S.N.M. No. 37980. Eastern Asia. Length, 58 to 71 mm. Eight examples. 

 U.S.N. M. No. 48140. Hako, Japan. S. Nozawa. Length, 110 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 49463. Tokyo. Albatross collection. Length, 153 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 49491. Hakodate. Albatross collection. Length, 86 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 49523. Hakodate, ^^baiross collection (No. 1959). Length, 360 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 50815. Hakodate. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 34 to 118 mm. 



Five examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 57510. Japan. P. L. Jouy (No. 567). Length, 198 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 57721. Japan. P. L. Jouy. Length, 144 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 59681. Matsushima Bay. Dr. H. M. Smith. Length, 138 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 59682. Hamashima. Dr. H. M. Smith, Length, 66 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71428. Hakodate market. Albatross collection, 1906. Length, 



59 to 82 mm. Three examples. Smallest with last dark transverse band at 



caudal base incomplete medially. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71680. Nafa, Okinawa, Riu Kiu. Albatross collection. Length, 



112 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 76257. Japan. 1878. Prof. E. S. Morse. Length, 51 to 76 mm. 

 Three examples. 



OPLEGNATHUS INSIGNIS (Kner) 



Figure 11 



Scarostoma insigne Kner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 56, 



p. 715, 1867 (type locality: West coast of South America). — Schmeltz, Cat. 



Mus. Godeffroy, No. 4, p. 15, 1869 (Chili). 

 Oplegnathus insignus J. F. Abbott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1899, 



p. 359 (compiled). 

 Oplegnathus insigne Snodgrass and Heller, Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., 



vol. 6, p. 397, 1905 (Tagus Cove, Albermare, Duncan, and Iguana Coves, 



Galapagos) . 

 Oplegnathus insignis Evermann and Radcliffe, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 95, p. 109, 



1917 (Paita and Lobos de Afuera, Peru). 

 Oplegnathus fasciatus (not Schlegel) Kroter, Naturh. Tidsskr. Kjobenhavn, 



ser. 2, vol. 1, p. 213, 1844^1845 (Callao, Peru). 

 Hoplegnathus fasciatus Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 5, p. 30, 1874 



(Chih); No. 7, p. 50, 1879 (Chili).— Pohl, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 9, p. 29, 



1884 (Chili). 



Depth 1% to 2; head 2% to 3, width 2% to 2%. Snout 2% to 3)^ in 

 head; eye 3K to 4%, greater than snout in young to 1% with age, greater 

 than interorbital in young to 1 % with age ; maxillary reaches to eye in 

 young, only to second nostril with age, length 3 to Sji in head; 34 rows 

 of tile like fused teeth, forming rough cutting edge along each dental 

 margin; interorbital Sji to S%, broadly convex; preopercle edge feebly 

 serrate around arch. Gill rakers 6+12, lanceolate, K of gill filaments, 

 which equal eye. 



