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body, those on anal more conspicuous and regular; caudal dusky, 

 outer rays with 8 white spots, inner rays with smaller, less conspic- 

 uous spots; a (hisky blotch at base of middle pectoral rays, and a 

 smaller one at lower rays; l)ehin(l these are three or four dusky bars 

 across the rays; ventrals white or sonietimes with a dusky spot on 

 their anterior half; all dark markinos on ])ody have a })urplisli or 

 violet cast. Anotlier specimen is nmch darker; the head is dark, with 

 sharp-cut, irregular l)lotches separated b}^ light lines; the bars across 

 soft dorsal are broken up into man}' black streaks, and the l)ars on 

 anal run together chain-like; the other tins are marked as before 

 described, but the dusky is here ])lack, making the contrast with the 

 light nuich greater; the sides are very dark mottled with shar})-cut, 

 irregular, and round wdiite spots; chin and branchiostegalswitli found 

 white spots. 



This species may be known b}^ the elevated first dorsal spine, the 

 round notch in the spinous dorsal behind them, and by the slender 

 caudal peduncle. It is e vide nth" not so common as P. fercoideH and 

 P. japonleus. Specimens were taken at Misaki and Enoshima. The 

 longest 15 cm. in length. 



{inarmoratus^ marbled. ) 



49. PSEUDOBLENNIUS TOTOMIUS Jordan and Starks, new species. 



• 

 Head 2f in length without caudal; depth -i. Dorsal IX-10; anal 13; 



lateral line pores 37. E3'e 4 in head; interorl)ital width !», bony part 



only 12; snout 3^; maxillary 2f ; height of caudal peduncle 5f. 



Jaws even. Mouth low, little oblique. Maxillary scarcely reach- 

 ing to ])elow middle of eye; its anterior end a little below the level 

 of eye. Yillifoi-m teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines, the bands on 

 front of premaxillaries wider than elsewhere; the bands on vomer and 

 palatines about equal in width. Interorbital narrower and concave, 

 without a median channel. A sharp, strongly hooked spine at angle 

 of preopercle, and a smaller one at lower anterior edge, directed for- 

 ward, edge of preopercle between spines smooth and even. Nasal 

 spines well developed. Superocular tentacle present. 



Pectoral with 14 ra^^s, the lower 7 swollen, the uppei' swollen ray 

 projecting slightly beyond the others; reaching to above second anal 

 ray; its length 1^ in head. Ventrals with 2 rays, the inner the longer, 

 reaching two-fifths of the distance from their base to front of anal. 

 The first 3 dorsal si)ines slightly separated from the others by a very 

 shallow notch; the first and fourth subequal. 2f in head, the second 

 and third gradually and slightly shortened. The dorsals separated by 

 an interval equal to the space between dorsal rays at ba.«^e. The .soft 

 dorsal higher than spinous, the longest rays 2| in head; the last ray is 

 free from the caudal peduncle; the tips of the last rays do not nearly 

 reach to the base of the caudal rays, but project .^lightly beyond those 

 of anal. Anal lower than soft dorsal, its longest rays 3 in head. 



