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of round, white spots in the dark marginal areas. Pectorals pale, with 

 a dusky blotch at ))ase. Ventrals pale. 



The typo is u si nolo dried s])0('inion ^-to nun. long-. prescMited to the 

 Museum of Leland Stanford Junior University by Mr. Sotaro Saito, 

 Director of the Museum of Aomori, Japan. It is type No. (!431 on 

 the Stanford Museum register. It was taken in the Ray of Aomori. 

 where tiie species is h)cally known as Sachi." 



No specimens were taken l)y us in Japan, ])ut other dried specimens 

 were seen, the ex])anded tins ren(hM'ine- it oiu^ of the local curiosities. 

 One of these, 385 nun. long, in the Imperial ^Museum of Japan, num- 

 bered 817, from Hokkaido, agrees closel}^ with the type specimen. 

 (D. VIII-13; A. 15; P. 10; scales 40.) Another from Hokkaido diflfers 



Fig. 8.— Draciscl's sachi. 



slightly in markings of the fins. In the museum of Hakodate is a 

 specimen from Kayabe, called b}^ the local name of '■•Tokuhire,"M)y 

 euphou}' Tokubire, meaning "handy fins." There is also another 

 specimen in the Museum of Aomori from Aomori Bay. 



9. PODOTHECUS Gill. 



Podothecus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIII, 1861, pp. 77, 259 (pn-lsttihii.'^= 



aclpenserimis). 

 Paragonus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIIT, 1S()1, pp, 167, 259 (<ielpn)s<riiinn). 



Bod}^ tapering nearly uniformly from head to caudal, about as high 

 as or higher than wide anteriorly; depth about 6 to 8 inches in length; 

 head al)ont 4, compressed; plates in dorsal series al)out 35 to-io. 4 or 5 



cBlepsias draciscus is called Sachiko; that is, child of the Sachi. Sachi in Japanese 

 means good fortune. 



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