494 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



167. ERNOGRAMMUS HEXAGRAMMUS ( Temminck and Schlegel). 



Matsiishiiuii HiU", one specimen, 128 mm. long-; from Fisheiy Experi 

 ment Station, Shiogama. 



168. DICTYOSOMA BURGERI Van der Hoeven. 

 KAMISORI (RAZOR-FISH). 



Hamashima, Ma}' IS, 1902, three .specimens, 110 to 187 mm. long, 

 from a depth of 2 to 3 fathoms; from Hamashina Fishery Station. 



P^imily AMMODYTID.E. 



169. EMBOLICHTHYS MITSUKURII (Jordan and Evermann). 



OKIAYU, 



Kochi, May 7, one specimen, 175 nnn. long. Bod}- l)ro\vnish mot- 

 tled; opercular i-egion purplish. The tip of the lower jaw projects 

 more strongly- than in -Jordan and Evermann's tigure. Not previously 

 reported from Japan. Rare at Kochi. 



- Family GADIDiE. 



CODS. 

 170. LOTELLA PHYCIS (Temminck and Schlegel). 



Matsushima Hay, one specimen, 220 mm. long; from Fishery Experi- 

 ment Station, Shiogama. 



171. PHYSICULUS JAPONICUS Hilgendorf. 



Kagoshima, June 13 and 16, two specimens. 180 and 197 mm. long. 

 Family MACROUKID.F. 



GRENADIERS. 

 172. CCELORHYNCHUS JORDANI Smith and Pope, new species. 



Head 4.5; depth (j.5 in length of body, 1.4 in length of head; snout 

 2.8 in head; eye equals snout; interorbital 4.5; scales in lateral line 

 about 100; series of scales between dor.sal spine and origin of anal 20; 

 dorsal 11, 9-90; anal 90; ventrals 7; pectorals 17. 



Snout short, obtuse, moderately depressed, transversely convex, its 

 greatest width opposite front of orbit a])out equal to longitudinal 

 diameter of eye, its extremit}' not sharply pointed; antero-lateral por- 

 tions of snout with naked translucent areas; vertical diameter of orbit 

 contained 1.4 times in longitudinal diameter; posterior nostril verti- 

 cally elongate but not crescentic, anterior about 0.5 its length; ridges 

 of head distinct; snout with a median dorsal ridge extending from its 

 extremity to a vertical drawn through anterior margin of e^e; a low 

 curved ridge anterior to nostrils which, passing upward and posteriorly, 

 joins an orbital ridge at its bifurcation aj^ upper rim of eye, the upper 



