138 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUfiEUM. vol. xxvii. 



Color deep gray with broad, dark, diffused cross bauds; under side 

 of head dark; all of the fins clouded with dark; posterior half of 

 caudal with a broad, dark cross band, which is crossed with light, wavy 

 lines; inner side of pectoral light blue, anteriorly with dark spots; 

 posterior edge of pectoral with a lu-oad dark border. (Steindachner 

 and Doderlein.) 



This species may be known from Scorj^fenopNis cirrJiosa hy the long- 

 pectoral, which is shown in the plate to reach to above the second or 

 third anal si:)ine, and by the serrated cranial ridges. It is not repre- 

 sented in our collections. 



(Kagoshima, basket-island, a port in Satsunia, in south(M-n .lapan, 

 'noted for the richness of its fish fauna.) 



lO. SETARCHES Johnson. 



*S'fi/ffrc7/<:".v JoiixsoN, Proc. Zool. 8oc.. Lond., 1862, p. 177 {rjuntlieri). 

 BathyHebast.es Steindachner and Doderlein, Denschr. Akad. Wiss. Wein, 1884, 

 p. 207 (albescens). 



Head and l)ody compressed; head scaleless above, its bones cavern- 

 ous; only 1 pair of spines at occiput; no transverse groove at occiput, 

 only small spines or none above orbit; opcrcle and preopercle strongly 

 armed with straight, long spines. Eye moderate, near, but not touch- 

 ing, profile. Mouth terminal, broad, somewhat oblique; maxillary 

 extending to posterior edge of 03'e, much expanded behind. Lower 

 jaw somewhat projecting, the small symphyseal knol) received in 

 rostral notch. Villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Pre- 

 orbital with '2 oi- 3 spines. Opercle scaly. Scales cycloid, moderate. 

 Lateral line a broad, scaleless groove with dermal (about 27 to 80) 

 tubes. No dermal flaps. Dorsal deeply notched, with 12 spines, its 

 origin in front of pectoral; soft dorsal shorter, the rays fewer than 

 the spines. Anal inserted under end of dorsal, its spines strong, 

 graduated. Pecstoral broad and bony, Avith 20 or more rays, of which 

 a considerable number of juedian ones are branched. Branchiost(^gals 

 6 or T. Pyloric appendages few. Deep water. 



(Etymology not obvious.) 



34. SETARCHES ALBESCENS ( Steindachner and Doderlein). 



STIIKO KA.SAGO (WHITE ROCK-FISH). 



Balhysebasfes albescens STEiNnAonNEU and Dodeui,ein, Fische Japans, III, 1884, p. 

 207; off Tokyo. 



Setarches albescens Steindachner, Fische .Tai)ans, IV, 1887, p. ail, same speci- 

 mens. — Jordan and Snyder, Check List, litOl, ]>. 99. 



Head 2| in length without caudal; depth 3|. Dorsal XII, 10; anal 

 III, 5. Pores of lateral line 27, series of scales below lateral line run- 

 ning-downward and backward, 58. Ej^eliin head; interorbital width 

 4|; maxillar}' Ij",,; third anal spine 3g; second anal spine Ig. 



