NO. l?..iS. 



.IM'ANESE SriJU'I^S— JORDAN AND STARKS. 



289 



JIdhildl. — South of Yeddo, Japan, Station 235; depth 565 fathoms. One specimen, 



2o inches lont;. 



A siiiiill specimen from ott' Misaki was seen in one of the museums 

 in Tokyo, but our notes in n^j^urd to, it are mislaid. 

 (paBvg^ deep; pi<>>, living-.) 



24 COTTUNCULUS Collett. 



C<itli()icii/tis {\)iA.ETT, Norgc'S F'iske, ]S75, \>. 20 (mlcrojis). 



Body tadpole-shaped, the head extremely laroc. the l)ody tapering 

 rapidly from the shoulders to the slender tail; mouth rathei- large, 

 terminal, oblique, the jaws about equal; villiform teeth in the jaws; a 

 double patch on vomer; no t(>eth on the palatines; no spines on the 

 head, the tul)ereular surface of the skull covcM-ed l)y skin; skull thin, 

 its bones not Hrm. Gills 3+, uo slit behind the last arch; gill mem- 



FlG. 26. — COTTUNCtlLUS BREPHOCEPHAI.rS. 



branes broadly joined to the isthmus, their union extending to above 

 the lower edge of the base of the pectorals. Pseudobranchiie very 

 small; no cirri, scales, or prickles; the skin thin and movable, smooth, 

 or roughened with small warts. Spinous dorsal little developed, the 

 2 fins usually continuous; spines very slender, tlexil)le, embedded in 

 the skin; pectorals short, procurrent below; xentrals \erv short, well 

 separated, their rays I, 3: caudal rounded. Deeper parts of the 

 Atlantic. 



(A diminutive of Cot/i/s.) 



33. COTTUNCULUS BREPHOCEPHALUS " Jordan and Starks. 



Head 2yi in length without caudal: depth ?>i. Dorsal M-IH; anal 

 12. Eye -t^ in head; maxillary 2k. 



This species may bt> known by the a)>sence of blunt spines and by 

 the coloration. 



"This species is described in detail and ti^Mircd iti the Proceedings of the U. S. 

 National iSIuseuni, XXVI, 1903, p. 689. 



