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past. Teeth in bands on blind gide of jaws. Lips of eyed side with 

 long, fringed tentacles, larger on lower lip; anterior nostrils in tulies. 

 Interorbital space flat or slightly concave, covered with scales, in large 

 specimens (28 cm. long) 1^ times long diameter of upper eye; equal to 

 diameter of ej^e in smaller specimens (20 cm. long). Relative position 

 of eyes somewhat variable, in some specimens the anterior two-thirds 

 of upper ej-e is in front of the vertical from anterior edge of lower 

 eye, in others the upper eye varies from this point until its posterior 

 edge is vertical from anterior edge of lower eye. 



Outline of dorsal, anal, and caudal continuous around tail, the caudal 

 not differentiated by a notch at last raj^s of dorsal and anal. Ventral 

 4 rayed, and scarcely differentiated from anal: ventral of blind side 

 absent. Scales ctenoid on e}' ed side, cycloid on blind side. A slight 

 depression on blind side along middle of body sugg'ests a lateral line 

 but it is without pores; ?> lines on blind side of body, one median, and 

 one following each the dorsal and anal outline of bodj^ 



Color uniform brown usually with irregular dark specks scattered 

 irregularly and sparsely over the body; tins uniform darker brown 

 with pale margins, similar but darker on blind side. 



Here described from specimens from 20 to 28 cm. in length from 

 Wakanoura, Kobe, and Tokyo. It is a common market fish of south 

 ern Japan. 



{japonicus^ Japanese.) 



87. CYNOGLOSSUS Buchanan-Hai-nilton. 

 Ci/noglossu!^ Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of the Ganges, 1822, p. 32. {lingaa.) 



Body lanceolate, covered with ctenoid scales; two lateral lines on 

 the left side, one rudimentary' on the right as in Vsinosita; Ej^es and 

 color on the leftside; snout produced into a hook; mouth narrow, the 

 lips not fringed; two nostrils on the left side, one of them between the 

 eyes. Gill opening very narrow. 



East Indian Seas: The genus is here restricted by the separation of 

 fhe species with two lateral lines on each side (Arelia), of those with 

 three lateral lines {Areliscus). of those with peculiar nostrils {Can- 

 toi'la), of those with one nostril (Tru/la), arid of those with none 



(kv&ov, dog; yXc^ffffa, tongue.) 



KEY TO SPECIES. 



:i. Eye about 12 in liead. F). 125, A. 98. Scales about 70; about 10 series of scales 



Vjetween lateral lines robust us, 54 



'Id. Eye Ts in head. D. 129, A. 10-1. Scales 74. Nine rows of scales between lateral 

 lines ,„.... brunneus, 55 



