282 MEMOIRS OP THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 



Named for Dr. Charles Victor Burke who has specially studied the Cyclo- 

 gasteridse. 



277. Careproctus gilberti sp. nov. (Plate XXXIV, figs. 7 & 7a). 



Described from the type, No. 6456, a specimen much shrunken by strong 

 alcohol, from Misaki, Sagami Bay, Japan, 16 cm. in total length. The measure- 

 ments are given in hundredths of body-length to correspond with the comprehensive 

 paper recently pubhshed by Gilbert and Burke on the Japanese Cijclogasteridce. 



Head .25; width of same .17; interocular width .10; width at angles of mouth .12; 

 length of snout .09; eye .06; maxillary .12; width of gill-slit .06; depth of body .19; 

 distance from snout to disk .19; from snout to anus .34; snout to anal fin .42; snout 

 to dorsal insertion .28; transverse diameter of disk .08; distance disk to anus 7; 

 longest ray in upper pectoral lobe 17, in lower 12. D. 45; A. 38; P. 32. 



Body elongate, compressed; head deeper than wide; dorsal profile most strongly 

 curved on snout; jaws subequal; maxillary extending to below anterior border of 

 pupil; eyes high, reaching dorsal profile as in Careproctus curilanus; nostril at level 

 of upper edge of pupil; teeth coarse, in bands in both jaws, simple, not trilobed, 

 depressible. Gill-opening extending to second pectoral ray. Pectorals not deeply 

 notched, rays of lower lobe slightly produced as filaments. Anterior dorsal rays 

 half length of posterior rays, latter .10 of body-length; former with tips slightly 

 produced; first anal rays .07, last .10; dorsal and anal adnate to caudal by one-fourth 

 its length, last ray in each slightly shorter than preceding rays. Disk beginning 

 under, or slightly behind, posterior margin of eye and reaching to below point of 

 opercle, separated by its own transverse diameter from anus, which resembles that 

 of Careproctus pycnosoma in position. 



Color faded or lacking. Peritoneum jet-black. 



This is named for Dr. Charles Henry Gilbert. 



Family TRIGLID^. 



278. Chelidonichthys kumu (Lesson & Carnot). 



Osaka, No. 6325a-b; Misaki, No. 6282a-c; Misaki, No. 6282a-c; Matsushima 



279. Chelidonichthys ischyrus sp. nov. (Plate XXXV, fig. 1). 



Described from the type. No. 6459 Carnegie Museum Catalog of Fishes, a 

 specimen one hundred and fifty millimeters in total length, coming from Sagami 

 Bay, Japan, and collected by Mr. Alan Owston. 



Head 2.5 in body-length to base of caudal; depth 3.66; eye 3.66 in head; snout 

 2.166; interorbital space two-thirds of eye; dorsal rays X-16 (last spine rudimentary) ; 

 anal rays 15; scales 67 in lateral line, 8/5 in transverse series; gill-rakers 1-|-10. 



