NO. 1489. 



JAPANESE FISHES— SMITH AND POPE. 



469 



56. SAYONARA MITSUKURII Smith and Pope, new species. 



Head 2.6 in length; depth 2.8; eye 3.5 in head; snout 5.75; inter- 

 orbital 7; maxillary 2; dorsal x,14; anal in. 7; ventrals i,5. 



Body ovate, compressed, dorsal, and venti'al outlines evenly and simi- 

 larly curved; headnearly equaling depth, compressed; caudal peduncle 

 compressed, its least depth 3 in head; snout shorter than eye, convex; 

 Qje, moderate, high, nearly impinging on dorsal protile; interorbital 

 narrow, convex; mouth large, oblique; maxillar}- reaching below pos- 

 terior edge of orbit, its distal extremit}^ equaling length of snout; loww" 

 jaw slightl}" projecting; line villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and pala- 

 tines; symphyseal notch of upper jaw without teeth; no prominent 

 canines; tongue smooth, small ; preopercle with double margin, the pos- 

 terior serrated, rounded; opercle with 3 small, short spines nearl}" con- 

 cealed by the large scales; gill-membranes free from isthmus; gill- 

 rakers long, slender; dorsals narrowly united at base; dorsal spines 



Fig. 3. — Sayoxara mitsukurii. (From the type 



heteracanthous, the sixth longest and contained 2.5 in head, tifth about 

 same length as sixth, the first one-half diameter of eye; longest rays of 

 soft dorsal contained 2 in head; second anal spine longest and strongest. 

 2.5 in head; soft dorsal and anal similar; caudal rounded; pectorals 1.12 

 in head, pointed, the middle rays longest; ventrals short, not reaching 

 insertion of anal; head and body fully scaled; scales large, linelj^ 

 ctenoid, 35 in lateral line; 2 rows of scales between lateral line and 

 origin of dorsal; al)out 7 rows of scales on cheek; lateral line unin- 

 terrupted, high, the tul)es extending the entire length of the scales 

 and forming an obtuse angle under middle of last rays of depressed 

 dorsal. Color of alcoholic specimen pale yellow; 7 large irregular 

 blotches of black on upper part of head and body at V)ase of dorsal, 

 suggestive of transverse bars, the first posterior to orbit, the second 

 midway between eye and origin of dorsal, the third at base of fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth dorsal spines, the fourth at base of last dorsal spines, 



