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Agonus japonicus Bloch and Schneider, Systema Ichthyologia, 1801, p. 105. 

 Phalmigistes japonicus FALI.AS, Zoog. Eosso-Asiat. , III, 1811, p. 112. 

 Hippocephalus superciliosus SwAiNsoti, Nat. Hist. Fishes, etc., II, 1839, p. 272. 

 Hippocephalus japonicus Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, 1883, p. 723. — Cramer, 

 Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci.. 1894, p. 194, with figure. 



Fig. 1.— Percis japonica. 



This species has been known in recent years from a single specimen 

 from Ochotsk Sea in the California Academy of Science, described and 

 figured by Mr. Cramer. This account is copied b}' Jordan and Ever- 

 mann, to whose work the reader is referred. 



8. AGONOMALUS Guichenot. 



Agonomalus Guichenot, Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. de Cherbourg, IX, 1866, j). 252, pi. 

 IX ( proboscidalis ) . 



Head and body strongly compressed, the latter entirely armed with 

 angular osseous plates. Teeth excessively small on both jaws, none on 

 vomer or palatines. Dorsal tins separate; a long, fleshy barbel on tip 

 of snout; mouth small; a very high, In-oad, somewhat recurved spine 

 or bony projection above each orbit; origin of first dorsal above nape, 

 the profile from nape to fin very steep; pectoral rays somewhat 

 exserted; gill membranes probably united and free from isthmus. 

 Closelv related to Hyj^sagomis. 



{agonus; o/uaXog^ level, even, or flat, i. e., compressed.) 



a. Lateral line pale; spines on head ridge-like; first dorsal spine slightly longer tlian 



second; anal rays 11 proboscidalis. 3. 



oa. Lateral line black; spines on head sharp; first dorsal spine notably longer than 

 second ; anal rays 13 or 14 .jordani. 4. 



3- AGONOMALUS PROBOSCIDALIS (Valenciennes). 



Aspidophorus proboscidalis Valenciennes, Coinptes Rendus de I'Acad. des 

 Sciences, XLVII, 1858, p. 1040; Port of Emperor Nicholas (Nicolaevsk), Gulf 

 of Tartary. 



Agonomalus proboscidalis Guichenot, Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 1865, p. 254, 

 pi. IX.— Sauvage, Nouv. Arch. Museum Hist NaL, Paris (2), 1, 1878, p. 157.— 

 Jordan and Evermann, Fish. North and Middle Amer., II, 1898, p. 2037, 

 after Guichenot.— Schmidt, Faune Mer Japon, 1903, p. 10; Vladivostok, 

 Japan Sea. 



