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caudal dusky, the upper and lower rays with -i or 5 half-round spots 

 open outward; each of the rays between with smaller white spots. 



This species may be known from I*, pcrcoides by the shorter maxil- 

 lary, the narrower caudal pc^duncle, the shorter snout, and by the color. 

 It is here described from specimens from 12 to 15 cm. in length. 

 Specimens were taken in abundance at Misaki, Matsushima, Onomichi, 

 Aomori, Enoshima, Yokohama, Tokyo, Tsuruga, and Hakodate. The 

 species is scarcely less common i\\[i\\ Pseu d(>hh' /in lit.s 2)erco ides. There 

 can be no doubt of the identity of P. cottoides, japonicus, and affi7iis. 



{cottus., sculpin; eiffoog, resemblance.) 



47. PSEUDOBLENNIUS ZONOSTIGMA Jordan and Starks, new species. 



Head 2f in length without caudal; depth 4. Dorsal X-lir<; anal 17; 

 pores in lateral line 31*. Eye 4^ to 5 in head; interorbital space 6, 

 bone only 9; snout 3^; maxiUary 2; height of caudal peduncle -i^. 



Head rather large; body deepest under middle of spinous dorsal, 

 tapering into a moderately deep caudal ijeduncle. Mouth large, a 

 little oblique, the maxillary reaching to below posterior orbital mar- 

 gin. Lower jaw scarcely as long as upper. Teeth yilliform, finer 

 than in any other Japanese member of the genus except /•'. totoinius, 

 in narrow bands on jaws, yomer, and palatines; the palatine patch very 

 narrow. Interorbital space rather Avide and shallow. A small sharp 

 spine at angle of preopercle, hooked upward, its posterior edge 

 scarcely forming an angle with edge of preopercle; a very small spine 

 directed downward at anterior lower edge of preopercle; otherwise 

 edge of preopercle is even and smooth. Nasal spine obsolete. 



A small fiat superorbital tentacle and a very small nasal tentacle 

 present; anterior nasal ending in a tube. Skin everywhere smooth 

 and naked; no plates under anterior part of lateral line. 



Pectoral with 15 rays, the lower 8 swollen, the uppermost of which 

 is the longest, reaching a little past front of anal and is ecjual to two- 

 thirds the length of the head. Length of ventrals 4 in head. Spinous 

 dorsal rather high and evenly rounded; the third spine 2f in head; it 

 is entirely separated from soft dorsal; interval between equal to the 

 space between soft ra3's at base. The soft dorsal only a little higher 

 than spinous, the longest rays 2i in head; the last ray is not connected 

 by membrane to caudal peduncle; the tips of the last rays reach to 

 opposite those of anal and end at a distance from base of median cau- 

 dal rays equal to the diameter of iris. Longest anal rays equal to 

 those of soft dorsal. Caudal truncate, or very slightl}- convex when 

 tin is spread. 



Color dark brown on top of head and back, shading gradually down- 

 ward to the white of lower parts; body entirely crossed by 6 double 

 rows of small brown spots, about as large as pupil, -these somewhat 

 broken at lateral line and not arranged so regularly on back as below;, 



