NO. 1489. 



JAPANESE FISHES— SMITH AND POPE. 



495 



branch running- along- top of head and occiput, the lower along upper 

 orbital rim and posteriorly to edge of opercle; mouth U-shaped, the 

 upper lip about opposite a \'ertical through edge of orbit, the angle of 

 the mouth extending to or beyond pupil; barbel short, not as long as 

 diameter of pupil; teeth villiform; preopercular angle produced back 

 ward, rounded, and serrated; gill-membranes forming a wide free fold 

 across isthmus; lateral line following the dorsal contour; scales with 

 8 to 14 spiny ridges and rather large, i series between dorsal spine and 

 lateral line; scales on the breast and ventral portions with but 8 or 9 

 rows of spines, the rows on body scales but slightly diverg^ent and pos- 

 teriorly becoming parallel; scales on opercles with 7 strongly diver- 

 gent rows of spines; ventral surface of head and gill-membranes naked; 

 first dorsal s])ine minute, the second long and smooth, its length equal 



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Fig. 11. — CcELORHYNCHVS .70RDAXI. (From the type.) 



to distance from origin of lin to anterior margin of eye; dorsal rays 

 successively shorter; pectoral ]X)inted, nearly 0.5 length of head; ven- 

 trals, excluding filamentous first ray, just reach to anal. Color in 

 alcohol light greenish; ])reast. branch iostegal mtMubranes and throat 

 finely dotted with ]>lack and purple; gill-cavity })urple, mouth and 

 nostrils colorless. 



In general appearance this species approaches C. hisJiinoiiyel Jordan 

 and Snyder,^' liut may l)e distinguished from that form by the longer 

 snout, by the smaller number of spinigerous ridges on the scales, and 

 by other sharply defined chai'acters given above. 



Described from a specimen 170 mm. long, collected at Kagoshima, 

 June 16, bv H. M. Smith. 



«Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 376, pi. xx. 



