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shorter above and below it; the tin very lar^e and sharply pointed 

 behind, reaching- to above base of second of third anal ra}-; its greatest 

 lenoth 2| in length without caudal. Ventrals short, with a concealed 

 spine and 2 soft rays, the inner ray the longer, scarcely reaching to 

 vent; their length 2|^ in head. Spinous dorsal low and long, rounded 

 at each end. very gently rounded above, nearl}'^ level; spines scarcely 

 varying in length from third to seventh, their length 3| in head. 

 Dorsals barely separated. Soft dorsal much higher than spinous; the 

 highest rays just l)ehind the third or fourth; their length 2^ of liead; 

 last ray adnate to caudal peduncle; the tips of last rays about on a 

 vertical with those of anal, and ending in front of base of caudal a dis- 

 tance equal to diameter of eye. Caudal truncate, the outer angles 

 YQYy slightly rounded, its length If in head. Longest anal rays near 

 posterior end of fin, their length 2i in head, the last ray free from 

 caudal peduncle. 



Color slaty brown on back and sides, mottled with darker; 5 irreg- 

 ular blotches on back above lateral line, 2 under each dorsal, and one 

 across caudal peduncle; a dark crossbar at base of caudal; a dark spot 

 at posterior end of spinous dorsal; the tin mottled with dusky, grow- 

 ing dark toward edge, and narrowly bordered with white; the ra3's of 

 pectoral and caudal crossed with dusky irregular bands, the color not 

 involving the membrane; the soft dorsal with oblique, dusky ])ands 

 running back and down across raj's, sometimes on membrane, some- 

 times on rays onl}^; a few dark dots on rays of anal, but so sparse as 

 to scarcely indicate bands; ventrals colorless; a single conspicuous 

 black dot always present on axil; underpart of head creamy white in 

 contrast with the unpigniented underparts of body. 



A few specimens taken at P^noshima, and 2, one of them the type, 

 taken at Wakanoura. The type is 55 mm. in length; the others do not 

 exceed that length. 



The type is numbered 771T, Leland Stanford Junior Universitj^ 

 Museum. Cotypes are No. 50926, U.S.N.M. 



(yuo-ojtvA?/, the armpit.) 



32. PSEUDOBLENNIUS Schlegel. 



PfteudoUennius Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 1850, p. 313 (j^ercoides) . 

 Psev dorlhms ScHLEG^h, Fauna Japonica, pi. lxxix«, same type. 



Bod}' and head compressed; skin naked, or with a few scattered 

 small plates under pectoral; preopercle with a single hooked spine at 

 angle; gill membrane connected, but free from isthmus; small sharp 

 teeth in bands on jaws, vomer, and palatines; mouth large; a tentacle 

 above eye; no slit behind last gill arch; branchiostegals (>; dorsal with 

 about 1(1 spines, separated from the soft portion or connected at 

 extreme end onlv; pectoral rays all simple, the lower ones swollen; 

 ventrals verj^ small, a concealed spine, and 2 soft ra3^s; copulating 



