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Family MYRID^. 



76. Myrus uropterus Temminck & Schlegel. No. 6460 (Plate XXVII, fig. 7). 

 We here figure a larval eel from Misaki, which we refer, very doubtfully, to 



this species. We can identify it with no other from Japan. 



Family MURiENESOCID.E. 



77. Muraenesox cinereus Forskal. 

 Osaki, Nos. 6385a-b, Shimonoseki. 



Family NEMICHTHYID.E. 



78. Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson. 

 Misaki, No. 602oa. 



Two specimens sixty-nine and ninety-three centimeters long, from Sagami Bay. 

 No tangible distinction from Atlantic specimens is apparent, except that the head 

 is noticeably larger. It is is recorded from Papua, and by Franz from Sagami Bay. 



Family OPHICHTHYIDJE. 



79. Ophichthys asakusae Jordan & Snyder. 



Kobe, No. 6216a, C. M. Cat. of Fishes (Coll. Manabe). Hitherto known only 

 from a specimen from Misaki in the Aquarium of Asakusa in Tokyo. 



Fig. 12. Ophichthys asakusce Jordan & Snyder. (From Proc. U. S. N. M., Vol. XXIII, p. 87.3). 



Family SOLENOSTOMIDvE . 

 80. Solenostomus paegnius sp. nov. 



Described from the type from Misaki, C. M. Cat. of Fishes, No. 6020, a male 

 specimen 101 mm. in total length, badly shrunken from immersion in strong alcohol. 



Head 2.2 in body-length without caudal; depth at base of ventrals 4.23; snout 

 3.33 in body; eye 6 in snout; maxillary 5 in snout; depth of snout 3 in its length, or 

 4.5 in head; length of caudal peduncle from last anal ray to middle caudal rays 4.7 

 in head; dorsal rays V. 20; A. 19; P. 25; V. 8. 



Body-depth slightly greater than in known species, despite shrunken body; 

 snout very deep, its depth equal to postorbital portion of head; the dorsal ridge, or 

 edge of snout, arched in profile, beginning a diameter of eye before the anterior 



