Ni). 1358. 



JAPANESE SCULPINS— JORDAN AND STARK'S. 



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This g-enns resembles Blennirottvx of the California eoast. hut it has 

 only two ventral rays, as do all of the ,Iapanese genera that closely 

 center about Pseudoh/erinhw. 



Small fishes of the Japanese rock i)(K)Is. 



(oKt'g, swift: rf/cr?/s, swinnner.) 



44. OCYNECTES MASCHALIS Jordan and Starks, new species. 



Head Hf in lenoth without caudal; depth 4^ to 41. Dorsal IX- 

 13 or 14; anal 1<); lateral line pores 34. E3^e 4^ in head; snout 3f, 

 nr.ixillary 2|; height of caudal peduncle 3^. Bon}- interorbital width 

 half eye. 



Profile of head very slightly convex and gently sloping to snout; 

 snout steep; lower jaw included. Mouth small, little <)l>li(iue, anterior 

 end of maxillarj' well below level of eye; maxillary reaching poster- 

 iorly to below middle of eye. Interorbital space narrow and deepl}'^ 



<. «*L = 



Fig. 34. — Ooynectks MAsnr.Ai.i.s. 



concave. Teeth tine villiform, in bands on jaws, vomer, and palatines; 

 the premaxillary band nuich wideiied in front, that on mandible but 

 little widened; the palatine patch rather broad and short. Top of 

 head w4th 3 pairs of nuiltitid flaps; the iirst pair over posterior orbital 

 rim; the posterior pair at occipital region; the middle pair closer to 

 each other than the others are, and dosei" to the posterior pair than to 

 the orbital pair. Head otherwise without tentacles. Nasal spines 

 prominent; the hooked spine at angle of preopercle is rather small 

 and blunt, its tip not projecting through skin: below it on edge of 

 preopercle are a couple of blunt, bony tubercles. 



Lateral line curved up anteriorly, but not undulating in .species of 

 JW'iidohlctniiuK and Btro; anteriorly each jjon^ usually hears a small 

 tentacle. Skin everywhere naked. 



Pectoral with 1;") simple rays, the lower S swollen: the upper swollen 

 my nuich longer than any of the others; tiie rays rai)i(lly hecoming 



