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ing down on the sides to upper margin of pupil, its anterior edge 

 above middle of eyes, its posterior edge at posterior end of parietal 

 ridges, giving place to a light crescent in front of dorsal spine; it is 

 irregularl}^ vermiculated with white lines, and between the parietal 

 ridges is a white spot; snout dusky; a dark l)and running anteriorly 

 from eye; membrane of spinous dorsal white, mottled wdth dark, a 

 dark sjDot between first and second spine, and a large black spot 

 between eighth and thirteenth spines surrounded by white; soft dorsal 

 with 8 or 4 dark bands across rays with intervals of white between 

 equal to them in width; pectoral jet black on outer surface, white on 

 inner; detached ray white; ventrals white, dusky toward tips, extreme 

 tips white; first 2 anal spines white, the rest of fin dusky and with a 

 darker band across middle of rays; caudal crossed by 3 rather broad 

 irregular bars, the one at tips of ra3^s darker, lietween them 3 white 

 bands, equal to them in width, the first across ]>ase of ra3^s. Perito- 

 neum white. 



The following color note made from a fresh specimen: Color brown; 

 pale markings, dirty white; dark ones l)rown or ])lack; no red or 

 yellowish. 



This species differs from Day's description of specimens from the 

 Indian Ocean, particularly in not having the parietal ridges ending in 

 spines, and from his plate in having the soft dorsal uuich higher, the 

 first dorsal spine lower, in having the black dorsal spot surroiuided 1)v 

 white, not shading into a dusky ))and along entire top of spinous 

 dorsal, and in having no red or yellowish in life. 



The type and single specimen taken at Nagasaki. It is 10.5 mm. 

 in length and is numbered 7371 Ichthyological Collections, Leland 

 Stanford Junior Universit}^ Museum. 



It is apparently the species described as Apistus alatns hj Schlegel, 

 while Bleeker's figure seems to belong rather to A. ewjJani^. Both 

 seem to ])e distinct from Apistus carinatus= A. alatns of the East 

 Indies. 



{venenans, poisoning). 



15. MINOUS Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Minous CuYiER and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, p. 420 (nvora). 

 Cor?/<7io6a<us Cantor, Cat. Malayan Fishes, 1850, p. 45 {voora) {MinoKs, supposed 

 to be preoccupied by the prior name Minoii^). 



This genus differs from Ajnstus chiefi}^ in the absence of scales, the 

 skin being smooth. The head has rough crests above and the pre- 

 orbital has 2 diverging spines. Preopercle with -1 or 5 spines; 2 

 opercular spines; mouth moderate; lower jaw with slender cirri. 

 Teeth on the vomer, none on the palatines. 



Fin rays all simple. Dorsal with 10 or 11 stiff spines and 9 to 11 

 ra3^s, the fin beginning behind the eye. Anal spines flexible; the ra^^s 



