NO. i:!58. 



JAPANESE SCULPim— JORDAN AND STARKS. 



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each side of occiput; in Jarger ones it becomes lower at the end and is 

 not even anoulated: the outer ridge runs along pterotic region and 

 ends without a spine. Opercle with a rather strong ridge, and a strong 

 wide ridge runs along the sul)or])ital stay and ends at the uppci- pre- 

 opercle spine. Nasal spines scarcely de\-eloped, not projecting tli rough 

 the skin. Preopercle with 4 spines; the upper larger than the others 

 and very strongly hooked; the 2 next below rather blunt and directfd 

 downward and backward, the lowest one hooked forward. Body of 

 the smaller specimens closely covered with small rough prickles, 

 the head with a few smooth papilUe: in large specimens the prickles 

 are more scattered and not nearly so rough. 



Origin of anal under tifth dorsal ray. or midway between tip of cau- 

 dal and middle of ej^e. Pectoral reaches to front of anal: it has 18 



Fig, 14.— Trachideejius ansatus. 



rays, the lower 10 simple, the upper ones divided once; the tifth ray 

 and 3 below are the longest, li in head, Ventrals with one concealed 

 spine and 4 rays; their tips reach half wa}' from their base to front of 

 anal. Origin of spinous dorsal a little in front of tip of opercular flap, 

 its base If to 2 in head, its longest spines three-fourths of length of 

 longest soft rays; the soft rays behind the third or fourth are subequal 

 in length to within a like number from the posterior end, Oaudal 

 somewhat rounded; its length 2i in head. 



Color grayish brown on back, white below, back and sides crossed 

 by 5 slightly oblique crossbars similar in position to those on Coftux 

 h(2lk(i and Cottus 2)olh(,v; a conspicuous Idack l)ar running ft)rward 

 from each eye to tip of snout, involving tip of mandible; another bar 

 running from q\q oblicpudy backward and downward aci-oss ch(>ek; a 

 similar bar connecting eyes across interorbital space, ^'entl•als and 

 anal white; other fins with irregular cross lines, formed l)y light-brown 

 spots on rays; a dark spot on base of pei-toral and tirst '.^ or 4 spin(\s 



