170 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. voi. xxxi. 



but no spine as in the male; the orbital rims raised but smooth. Six 

 short o-ill rakers developed on lower limb of arch, none on upper. 



Orioin of dorsal on blind side opposite upper rim of lower e3^e; pec- 

 toral of colored side long, narrow, and pointed, its length equal to 

 that of head; pectoral of blind side blunt and only half as long- as its 

 mate; arch of lateral line, 3| in straight part, li in head. 



Color rather light, mottled with dark brown, lighter than in S. 

 Jcohensis; the tins all with small dark spots on the rays; a conspicuous 

 black spot nearly as large as pupil on the upper and lower edges of 

 the caudal at about the middle of the length of the rays. 



Specimens were collected at Wakanoura and Nagasaki. The above 

 description is of specimens 11 or 12 centimeters long. 



The specimen here drawn is of a male with a wide interorl)ital space. 

 Females of the same size as our type of S. l'ohemii< have the interor- 

 bital space no wider than in that species. 



{grandi^^ large; stjuama, scale.) 



3. SC/EOPS KOBENSIS Jordan and Starks, new species. 



Head, 4 in length to l)ase of caudal; depth, If; eye, -4 in head; snout, 

 4|; maxillary, '6\\ dorsal, 80; anal, <)3; pores, in lateral line 5t;; 45 

 series of scales. 



Shape of body as in Scfleops r/r(indmj>/an/a; the snout slightly pro- 

 duced; a slightly siiarper notch above its tip; mouth very oblique, the 

 maxillarj^ reaching to front of lower eye; teeth small and rather sharp, 

 in a single even row on jaws; middle of upper eye a little })ehind 

 posterior edge of lowei- eye; interorbital space rather deeply concave, 

 its width equal to vertical diameter of upper eye; no tubercles al)out 

 eyes, a slight prominence at tip of snout; gillrakers very short and 

 rather blunt, 7 developed on lower limb of arch, none on upper. 



Origin of dorsal at notch above snout opposite front of lower eye; 

 height of longest dorsal rays near middle of tin, 2 in head, equal to 

 those of anal; pectoral of eyed side long, narrow, and pointed; its 

 length ecjual to that of head; pectoral of blind side short and rather 

 blunt, its hMigth 2^ in head; ventral of eyed side O-rayed, extending 

 farther forward but not so far t)ack as that of l)!ind side, its rays nuich 

 wider apart; length of arch of lateral line lU in straight part, contained 

 If times in head; height of arch equal to width of interorbital space; 

 scales of eyed side everywhere finely ctenoid; the spinules long, slen- 

 der, and very immerous, easily broken oti', leaving the scale nearly 

 smooth; scales of blind side cycloid; head with scales everywhere 

 except on tip of snout, mandible and maxiUary; interorl)ital closely 

 scaled. 



Color light grayish brown, everywhere mottled with irregular spots 

 of very dark lirown; the colors not much shaded into each other and 

 in sharp contrast; dorsal, tinal, and ventral with tine spots of dark 



