NO. 1365. THE AGOXID.E OF JAPAN— JORDAN AND STARKS. 597 



lO. SARRITOR Cramer. 



Sarritor Cramer, in .Ionian and llvi'i-niann, C'lu'ck-Li^^t Fishes, 1890, p. 44S 

 {fretiatus). 



Body tapering- uniforinl}^ to base of caudal; head 4 to 4^, depth (j to 

 8 in standard length. Plates on body nearh' all without spit es, Plate.>^ 

 in dorsal series 38 to -15, 5 to 6 pairs between occiput and lirst dor.sal. 

 No large knife-like plate over eye. Both dorsal tins present, rather 

 long, the rays growing shorter behind the last adnate to back. Four 

 to H pairs of barbels about mouth, 1 pair under tip of snout. A j)air 

 of recurved spines near tip of snout. One pair of supraocular and 1 

 or 2 pairs of occipital spines. Teeth on jaws and vomer, none on pal- 

 atines. Gill membranes joined to isthmus, without free fold; no bar- 

 bels on gill membranes. Lower rays of pectorals with free exserted 

 tips. Vertebrae, -iO to 46. This genus is very close both to Podothe- 

 cm and to Odontopyx'i^, differing from the former in the presence of 

 vomerine teeth and from the latter in the absence of a free median 

 plate at the tip of the snout. Its relations to Arernmeui^ are still 

 closer, the chief difference being in the smooth plates of the body and 

 in the absence of cirri on the gill membranes. 



{sarnto7\ one that scrapes.) 



a. Snout moderate, about half length of head; ventralsdark in male frenalun, 19. 



au. Snout very long, produced in a flat, triangular piece, exserted for two-thirds 

 length of orbit; ventrals jiale leptorhyi^chtt.t, 20. 



19. SARRITOR FRENATUS (Gilbert). 



Odontopyxis frenatus Gilbert, Kept. U.S. Fish. Comm., 1893, p. 437 (1896); 

 north of Peninsula of Alaska, type 48727, U.S.N. M. — Jordan and Ever- 

 MANN, Fish. North and Middle Amer., II, 1898, p. 2078; same specimens. — 

 Jordan and Gilhert, Rept. U. S. Fur Seal Comm., Ill, 1898, p. 474; Povo- 

 rotnaya, Kamchatka. — Schmidt, Faune Mer Japon, 1903, p. 16; Japan Sea. 



^^^^^fes? 



Fig. 13.— S.vkkitok frenatus. 



This species, fully descril)ed in the work of Jordan and Evermann. is 

 recorded by Schmidt from Vladivostok. 

 {frenatus^ bridled.) 



20. SARRITOR LEPTORHYNCHUS 1 Gilbert^ . 



Odontopyxh hptorkynchus (TiLnEKT, Rept. U. S. Fish Conun., 1S93 (1896), p. 437; 



Bering Sea, north of Alaska Peninsula, at Alliatross Station 3267, lat. 5.^° 



23^ 30'" N., long. 163° 29' W. (Type No. 48727. Coll. Alhatross.) 

 SaiTitor leptorhynvhm .Jordan and Evermann, Fi.^h. North and :>[iddle Amor., 



II, 1898, p. 2073; about the Peninsula of Alaska.— Schmidt, Fauiu- Mi-r 



Jai>on, 1903, ]>. 16; Japan Sea. 



