NO. 1358. JAPANESE SCVLPINS— JORDAN AND STARKS. 271 



Color, hoiid !ind Imck dai'k })ro\vii. liohtcr on .sides, belly white; :i 

 dark l)ar under the fourth to scNcntii dorsal ray runnin<>- ()l)li(|U('lv 

 forward and downward toward fi'ont of anal; a similar on(> inider 

 last part of soft dorsal, and one across base of caudal; top of iiead 

 mottled with small dark spots; lips dark brown, under parts of head 

 dusky; dorsal spines daik brown, the membrane white, soiled with 

 diffused dusky spots; the dorsal rays dark brown, with small li<,dit 

 spots, causino- light streaks obliquely across the rays, the membrane 

 white. Caudal ])i'own, ^\\{\\ darker brown irregular cross streaks; 

 anal white, each ray with '2, dark spots tow^ard its tip; ventrals white. 



Our single specimen was presented by Pi'ofessor Mitsukuri. It 

 bears a label in Japanese saying, ''I^ocality unknown." and also a label 

 in English stating that it came froiu Odawara. a town on Sagami Bay, 

 near the iooi of the famous sacred mountain of Fuji or Fujiyama. It 

 also says that the vernacular name is '""Takitaroo." tirst ])orn of the 

 cataract. It is a female full of spawn and is 'll cm. in length. 



The type is numbered 7T0»>, Ichthyological Collections, Leland Stan- 

 ford Jmiioi' I iiiversity ]\Iuseum. 



18. MYOXOCEPHALUS (Steller) Tilesius. 



Miio.voceph(iJn» 8tellek MS., 1741. 



Myojocephalns Tilesius, Mem. Acad. Sci. Tetersb., 1\', 1811, p. '21',} [xlcUcri). 

 Acanthorottntt Girard, Proe. Bost. 8oc. Nat. Hist., Ill, 18-49, p. 185 {ffrcenlandicu.^). 

 Cottus Putnam, P>u11. Mus. Comp. Zool., I, 1863, p. 3 {Hcorplns), not of LiiiiiKUs. 

 7?o/roro//».s- (Jill, Pn.c. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, p. 16(3 {asillaris) . 



Body slender or robust, subfusiform. covered with thick skin, in 

 which are sometimes embedded prickly plates; deciduous, granular, or 

 stellate tubercles also sometimes present, but no true scales. Head 

 large. Mouth terminal, large, the lower jaw alwaj^s included, the 

 uppermost the longer; villiform teeth on the jaws and \omer, none 

 on the palatines; suborbital stay strong; preoperde with 2 strong 

 straight spines above directed backward, and 1 below directed down- 

 ward and forward; opende, nasal bones, orbital rim, and shoulder 

 girdle more or less armed; gill membranes forming a fold across the 

 rather narrow isthmus; slit behind last gill small or wanting, if pres- 

 ent, reduced to a mere pore; vertebra? about 28. Branchiostegals 

 mostly 0. Dorsal tins 2, separate, the tirst short, its spines rather 

 slender; ventral rays I, 3; caudal tin moderate, fan-shaped; pectoral 

 fin broad, its lower ravs procurrent. Lateral line well devcdoped, its 

 tubes sometimes provided with ])ony or cartilaginous plates, never 

 chain-like nor reduced to separated pores. Species mimerous, in the 

 seas of northern regions; coarse Hshes, little valued as food. 



Nearly all of the Japanese species ditVcM- from those from the north 

 in the absence of rough bony plates, even in specinuMis l:; inches long. 



{juvoSog^ the dormouse; Ke<J)aX7}^ head; the allusion not e\ ident.) 



