166 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvii. 



the preopercle sends a ridge backward which ends in a sharp spine. 

 Preorbital with a short spine anteriorly projectino- transversely to 

 maxillary; a long sharp spine folloAvs upper contour of maxillary and 

 is as long as half the diameter of eye. Gill-rakers short, blunt, uneven ; 

 about 4+8 in number. 



Entire head, a space on back below dorsal, breast, and a space behind 

 base of pectoral, naked. Sides of body covered with small granula- 

 tions which are somewhat thickened toward their posterior margins, 

 but are not spiniferous. 



Dorsal without a notch between the spinous and rayed portions. 

 The first spine not longer than eye (its tip broken), its base above 

 middle of eye. The second spine over twice as long as the first; the 

 fifth equal to distance from eye to tip of opercular flap. The middle 

 rays of soft dorsal longest; their length equal to the distance from tip of 

 snout to preo]3ercular ridge; the posterior margin of the fin straight, 

 forming an angle slightly less than a right angle with the superior 

 margin. The last ray is adnate to the caudal peduncle for its whole 

 length, the meml)rane not quite reaching to base of caudal. 



The anal spines are graduated; the first scarcely as long as diameter 

 of eye, the third twice the length of the first. When the fin is depressed 

 the tips of the middle rays reach the base of the caudal. The last ray 

 is adnate to the caudal peduncle for about half its length. When ven- 

 tral fins are depressed the longest ray reaches to the base of the first 

 anal spine, while the tip of the ventral spine falls short of it a distance 

 equal to the diameter of the eye. Pectoral angulated, the sixth and 

 seventh rays longest, reaching to above the first anal ray. Caudal fin 

 narrow and elongate, with the posterior margin rounded; its length 

 li in head. 



Color (from a specimen long in spirits) slaty white with brownish 

 markings. Membrane of spinous dorsal clouded with brownish; some 

 of the spines with a small, dark spot in front of them. All of the 

 other fins with vermiculated markings transversely across the rays. 

 A large dark-brown spot behind upper part of gill-opening and a 

 smaller one on lateral line below base of last dorsal spines. Eye with 

 traces of lines radiating from the center. 



The type is a single specimen (No. 64:33 on the Stanford Museum 

 Register) in good condition, 217 mm. long, presented to Stanford Uni- 

 versity by Professor Mitsukuri of the Imperial University of Tokyo. 

 It is said to })e from Kagoshima in Kiusiu, and to bear the local name 

 of Yama-no-kami, or Mountain Goddess, in local mythology a woman 

 with wings, capable of starting a storm. Dr. Boulenger calls our 

 attention to the probable identity of this species, with his Tetraroge 

 guntheri. The two agree in form and color, but 8. guntheri is said to 

 have palatines toothed and there is some ditterence in size of mouth. 



