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est, 2 in bead; last ray not adnate to body. Body and bead every- 

 wbere witbout scales. 



Color in spirits, brownish or dusky irreg-ular cross bars over a white 

 ground; one downward under seventh dorsal spine, broader below 

 lateral line and inclosing a white spot just below it, fading on lower 

 part of sides; the next under last spine and first -i or 5 rays, extending 

 nearly- to anal; a narrowband across base of caudal, and one across 

 rays toward their tips; extreme tips white; dorsal without color, 

 except a little dusky at end of soft dorsal; anal and tips of ventrals 

 dusky; pectoral with a broad white band across middle of rays, a black 

 band toward tips, and extreme tips white; a dusky spot on nape; a 

 dark stripe from eye to upper preopercle spine, one obliquely across 

 cheek, and one forward across maxillary and mandible; snout and tip 

 of mandible white; a dusky band covered with small black points 

 across interorbital space. Other specimens have small dark points on 

 front of dorsal, base of pectoral, a,nd on head following the radiating 

 lines from eye. Sometimes entire dorsal is more or less spotted. One 

 specimen shows traces of pink above lateral line and on head. In life 

 the species was pink or pinkish gray with darker markings. 



Specimens were dredged by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer 

 AUKitross in 40 to 50 fathoms in Sagami Bay. Stations 3757, off Sano 

 Point, Sagami Bay, 41 to 50 fathoms; 3762, same locality, 42 to 49 

 fathoms, and 3764, same locality, 44 to 50 fathoms. They do not 

 exceed 50 mm. in length. 



The types are in the U. S. National Museum and are numbered 50911. 

 Cotypes are numbered 7375 and 7376 Leland Stanford Junior 

 Ichthyological collection. 



{vespa, wasp.) 



20. SNYDERINA Jordan and Starks. 

 Snyderina Jordan aud Starks, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1901, p. 381 {ymnanohami). 



Body robust, compressed, sparsely covered with nonimbricate, 

 thickened or granular scales. Head naked, ridged, without cranial 

 spines. Profile angulated in front of eye; preorbital with a long 

 sharp spine. Preopercle with a long sharp spine above and 1 smaller 

 ones. Teeth villiform, in bands on jaws and vomer; palatines tooth- 

 less. Gill -membranes narrowl}^ united and narrowly connected with 

 the i.sthnuis. No slit behind fourth gill. Branchiostegals 7. Lateral 

 line present. Dorsal continuous, with about 13 spines and 10 ra3\s. 

 Anal with 3 spines. First dorsal spine short, inserted above middle 

 of eye; last dorsal ray adnate to caudal peduncle. Ventral rays I, 5. 

 Pectoral without free ray. Caudal rounded. Fins all scaleless. 



This genus is close to Tetrarof/e {harbatus), differing at least in the 

 absence of barbels at the chin. 



(Named for John Otterbein Snyder.) 



