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.shade sometimes present on opercle, caused by dusk}- lining-, showing 

 through. No other color on alcoholic specimens. The following color 

 was taken from a fresh specimen: Bright crimson Avith vague paler 

 shades on back and red shades from c}'©. Pectoral blood red; other 

 fins red, but paler. 



Here described from specimens from K! to 22 cm. in length from 

 Misaki. 



It is with much doubt that wo identify this species with the Mediter- 

 ranean form, but having no specimens from the Atlantic side, and 

 being unable to find sufificient characters in current descriptions, we 

 can not do otherwise. 



It is common in the deeper waters off Misaki and Awa. We have 

 man}" specimens from Misaki, Tokj^o market, Sagami Bay, Suruga 

 Bay, these last dredged by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer ^l/^«- 

 //YAS.S'. The stations are: 3698, Manazuru Point, Sagami Bay, 501 to 749 

 fathoms; 3717, Ose Point, Suruga Bay, 08 to 05 fathoms, and 3719, 

 same locality, 90 to 70 fathoms. 



{SocKTvXog^ finger; Ttrepov^ fin.) 



27. HELICOLENUS EMBLEMARIUS Jordan and Starks, new species. 



Head 2i in length without caudal; depth, 2^. Dorsal XII, 12 or 13; 

 anal III, 7 counting last slender one. Pores of lateral line, 28; obliciue 

 series of scales below lateral line, 40. Eye, 2f to 3 in head; least inter- 

 orbital width, 7; maxillary, 2|-. 



Tip of mandible not projecting; symph3"seal knob but little devel- 

 oped. Mouth moderate, the maxillar}^ scarcely reaching to below 

 posterior edge of pupil. Teeth in rather narrow bands on jaws, very 

 narrow on palatines and vomer; front of premaxillaries with scarcely 

 a notch, the bands of teeth of each side nearl}" touching; palatine bands 

 toward anterior ends turned rather sharplj- inward to vomer. Cranial 

 spines strong and erect. Nasal, preocular, supraocular, i)()stocular, 

 tympanic, coronal, parietal, and nuchal spines present; coronal spines 

 rather small, blunt in the largest specimens; all of the spines growing 

 blunter and less erect with age; in the larger specimens a spine or 

 tubercle of bone developed laterally on supraorl)ital margin between 

 pre and super ocular spines. Suborbital margin a sharp i-idge, broken 

 up into 2 sharp, ])ackward directed spines. Posterior, up})er margin 

 of oibit with a blunt tubercle developed, sometimes paired on one or 

 both sides. Preopercle with 5 spines, the second and thii'd from the 

 lowest the largest, the lowest hooked forward. ()p(M-cle with 2 fiat 

 spines not [)receded ))y ridges. Preorbital with an anterior, very low, 

 rounch'd lobe, behind it a large double spine, and at the posterior end 

 either a similar one, or a single spine, sometimes dou))lc on one side 

 and single on the other of the same specimen. Interobital concave; 

 narrowest just })ehind preocular spines; growing rapidly wider pos- 

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