280 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 



Family BEMBRID.E. 



270. Bembras japonicus Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 Nagasaki, one example, No. 4167a. 



Family AGONIDiE. 



271. Tilesina gibbosa Schmidt. (Plate XXXIII, fig. 1). 

 Hokkaido, Japan, No. 6022a-f. An adult and a number of young. 



This species is described in Russian in Schmidt's Pisces Marium Orientalium 

 and beautifully figured. In order to provide a description for those unable to read 

 Russian our adult specimen is here described, length 29 cm. 



Head 4.5 in body without caudal, 5.2 in total length; depth 2.33 in head; 

 D. XVIII-9; A. 26; P. 15; V. I, 2; body-plates 51, transverse 5; eye 5.5 in head; 

 snout 3; maxillary 3.66; interorbital space 8; breadth at opercles 2. 



Head conical; snout somewhat elongate; lower jaw strongly projecting; maxil- 

 lary just failing to reach anterior border of eye; pre-orbital swollen, where it covers 

 maxillary; each plate on sides of head and temporal region with a blunt apex or a 

 sharp spine, those on opercles and cheek highest; a rough ridge forming upper 

 posterior border of eye; each plate of body with a posteriorly directed sharp spine, 

 rows converging on breast, with blunter spines in this region; lateral line with a 

 small series of spinate plates half the breadth of those above them; three plates on 

 base of pectoral; line of back between occiput and dorsal with small spinules in an 

 irregular row, belly similar in posterior half; anterior half of median line of belly 

 soft, not armed; anus midway between insertion of anal and isthmus. 



Spinous dorsal inserted over seventh body-plate; first spine highest, 1.75 in 

 head, last adnate to back; insertion of second dorsal three plates posterior to tip 

 of last spine, over thirty-second body-plate, first ray 2.5 in head; caudal 1.66 in 

 head; anal inserted opposite sixteenth body-plate, its termination two plates 

 posterior to that of soft dorsal; pectoral reaching insertion, first ten rays of nearly 

 equal length; ventrals under pectoral base, reaching half-way to anal. 



Color nearly uniform on body, a narrow dark stripe through eye from snout, 

 continued as a row of spots along lateral line, more distant posteriorly; two upper 

 pectoral rays dark, two indistinct transverse rows of spots in upper half of pectoral; 

 dorsal, anal, and caudal uniformly dark-hued, nearly black. 



272. Brachyopsis rostratus (Tilesius). (Plate XXXIII, fig. 2). 



Taruku Island, Nemuro, Hokkaido, No. 6032 (Coll. Owston). 



This agrees with specimens from the Kuriles. D. varying from VII-8 to 

 IX-8. Body-plates 45. 



