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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Tyiie.—C'At. No. 55618, U.S.N.M. 



Named for Mr. H. Niwa, director of the Fisheiy Experiment 

 Station of Kochi prefecture at Susaki, Tosa. 



SATSUMA Smith and Pope, new genus (Serranidae). 



Form elongate, compressed; head pointed; mouth large, with small 

 teeth on jaws, vomer and palatines; maxillary broad posteriorly, lower 

 jaw projecting, its symphysis sharp and dentigerous; eye very large; 

 opercle with 2 spines, preopercle serrated; gill-opening large and 

 continued far forward, gill-membranes not connected and free from 

 isthmus; body covered with finely ctenoid scales; opercles, cheeks, 

 and upper part of head scaly; snout and jaws naked; lateral line high 

 and concurrent with back; 2 high dorsal fins, anterior with 9 strong 

 spines; anal tin deep, with 3 spines; caudal deeply emarginate; pec- 

 torals long and pointed; ventrals with 1 long spine. 



In the large eye, high dorsal spines, squamation, general form, and 

 color this genus superficially resembles the holocentrids. 



Tyj^e of genus. — Satsama macrops. 



58. SATSUMA MACROPS Smith and Pope, new species. 



Head, 2.75 in length; depth, 2.6; eye, 2.5 in head; snout, 4; inter- 

 orbital, 4; dorsal, ix-i, 10; anal, iii, 7; ventrals, i, 5; scales, 4-10-9; 

 pores, 38. 



Body elongate, deep, much compressed, greatest depth at alwut 

 origin of spinous dorsal; head compressed, a little longer than deep, 



Fig. 5. — SATSUMA MACROPS. (From the type.) 



its width 2.2 in its length; snout short, ])road, and acute; eye very 

 large, high, impinging upon upper profile of head, its diameter about 

 equal to postocular part of head; mouth large, oblique; mandible 



