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ventrals also past its front, the distance from base of filament to front 

 of anal onl}' about half head. His specimen was probably a shriveled 

 male of this species. There is no previous record of this species 

 from Japan, and this form belongs to a different faunal area. This is 

 the common Okoze, or poison fish of the Inland Sea of Japan. 

 (Named for Arthur Adams, its discoverer.) 



42. MINOUS ECHIGONIUS Jordan and Starks, new species. 



Mlnous monadacij/lux Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 49, No. 863; Niigata. 



Head 2^ in length without caudal; depth 2^. Dorsal X, 11; anal 12. 

 Eye -li in head; maxillary 2^. Lateral line with 17 pores. 



Lower jaw strongly projecting, its tip sharply hooked up. Teeth 

 in a ver}' narrow band in lower jaw, scarcely wider in front, in a much 

 wider band on premaxillaries, wider in front; teeth on vomer in 2 



Fig. 14.— Minous echigonius. 



widely separated patches. Maxillary reaching to just past front of 

 orbit. Interorl)ital wide and concave, the ridges as in J/, adanis/', 

 its width equal to diameter of orbit. Preorbital with a long, sharp 

 posterior spine, which reaches nearly to end of maxillary, and a small 

 spine in front which points downward. Preopercle with a long, slen- 

 der, sharp spine, reaching nearly to margin of opercle; above it, a 

 wide triangular spine; below it, 4 short spines, the upper of which is 

 closer to the large spine than to the next below; it is short and not 

 very sharp; the next below is .slightly longer and sharper; the next, 

 closer to it than to the next below, its point rather sharp and hooked 

 backward; the lowest is smaller and is directed downward. Exposed 

 bones and ridges of head rough and arranged as in M. adamxl. Last 

 gill arch with a short slit behind it. Gill raker.s .short and blunt, S in 

 number on anterior limb. A tentacle at middle of lower jaw below, a 

 smaller one midwa}' between it and tip of jaw, and several small ones 



