NO. 1358. 



JAPANESE SCULPINS— JORDAN AND STARKS. 



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next below backward and slightly upward; the next very much 

 smaller, directed backward, a wider space between it and the next than 

 between the others; the next is hooked forward. Opercle with a tlat 

 spine at the end of a ridge. Two spines on edge of subopercle, the 

 upper one behind and just above the next to the top preopercular 

 spine; the lower one at union of subopercle with interopercle. A 

 sharp spine on clavicle projecting just below opercular flap; a shorter 

 blunter one on posttcmporal just above opercular flap. A long, 

 thin flap on end of maxillary; a short one on upper posterioi" margin 

 of eye; a very small one at nape. 



Distance of first dorsal spine from tip of snout equal to eye and 

 postorbital part of head; the first spine 2f in head; the third 4; the 

 fourth 2f ; the last and next to the last 5^. The soft dorsal higher 

 than the spinous, the third ray 2^ in head; the rays hold their length 



Fig. 10.— Hemilepidotus gilberti. 



witli ])ut little decrease to the sixth from the last where they al)ru])tly 

 and rapidl}^ decrease, the sixth from the last projecting past the tips 

 of the others in the reclined fin. Pectoral reaching- to opposite l)ase 

 of second or third anal ray; it has 17 rays, the fifth from the top the 

 longest, II in head. Ventrals nearh' reaching vent; the rays I, -i. 

 Anal rays slender, the membi-ane ratlier dei^ply incised; the fourth 

 ray 3 in head. Caudal truncate or slightly rounded, its length 1;^ in 

 head. 



Color in spirits slightly dusky above, white l)el()W, crossed by 

 blackish bars, irregular in shape but the same shape in l)oth of our 

 specimens; head dusky between darker spots; tip of snout dark; a 

 light streak behind, a dark l)lotch Ijelow eye; a dark spot on tirst '2 

 dorsal spines, a dark cross-bar under second, third and fourth spines 



