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124. PSEUDOBLENNIUS COTTOIDES (Richardson). 



Hamashinia, October 2, 1!)(>2, one specimen, 7i» nun. long-; from 

 Hamashima Fi-shery Station. 



125. PSEUDOBLENNIUS MARMORATUS (Ddderlein). 



Matsushima Bay, two specimens, 112 and 115 mm. long; from 

 Fishery Experiment Station, Shiogama. 



Family PLATYCEPHALID^E. 



FLAT-HEADS. 



126. PLATYCEPHALUS INDICUS (Linnaeus). 



MATSUJI. 



Kagoshima, elune 11, one specimen, 223 mm. long. 



127. PLATYCEPHALUS JAPONICUS Tilesius. 



KOCHI. 



Kochi, Ma}^ 7, one specimen, 190 mm, long; Kagoshima, June 11, 

 one specimen, 183 mm. long. 



128. PLATYCEPHALUS PUNCTATUS Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Yamagawa, flune If], one specnnen, 238 mm. long. 



129. INSIDIATOR RUDIS (Giinther). 

 KOCHI. 



Kochi. May 7, one specimen, 19(» mm. long. 



130. INSIDIATOR HOSOKAW.(E Smith and Pope, new species. 



Head about 3 in length, its width 1.75 in its length; depth, 7; snout, 

 3.75 in head; eye slightly less than snout; interorbital, 3 in ey^e; scales 

 in lateral line, 42; dor.sal i, viii-12; anal 12. 



Maxillary extending to vertical through anterior margin of pupil; 

 lower jaw projecting; tine villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and pala- 

 tines; opercle with 2 sharp spines, its flap with a strongly upturned 

 and rounded corner; 4 spines at angle of preopercle, of which the luost 

 posterior is longest and bears a superimposed spine at its base; 4 

 radiating spines on preorbital; a spine on anterior rim of orbit; sub- 

 orbital with a conspicuous notch below the pupil, the notch preceded 

 by 4 sharp recurved spines and followed by a strongly stn'rated ridge 

 of 11 or 12 recurved spines; snout and supraorbital, postorbital, and 

 occipital ridges spiniferous; scales rather large, thin, ciliated; tubes 

 of lateral line broad; 3 spines at anterior end of lateral line; nostrils 

 with a dermal tentacle; a short tentacle on cornea posterior to pupil; 

 origin of spinous dorsal over base of ventrals, longest sj^ine (third) 0.5 

 head; longest rays of soft dorsal about length of second dorsal spine, 

 base of soft dorsal shorter than that of anal; longest anal rajs less 



