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Color in alcohol dark brown, five indistinct cross-bars of darker brown as wide 

 or wider than eye on upper part of body, first under spinous dorsal second under 

 insertion of second, last on middle of caudal peduncle; between these cross-bars 

 indefinite reticulations of darker brown; cheeks, side of snout, and opercular 

 membranes with narrow sinuous lines margined differently with white, five or six 

 present on lower membrane of eye; a dark blotch above and behind pre-opercular 

 spine; spinous dorsal without striking coloration; indefinite large whitish spots in 

 reticulations of darker color present; soft dorsal with two rows of indefinite, fused 

 spots throughout; one or more on first rays and two more on last; soft dorsal and 

 upper half of caudal with three narrow lines of dark along margin ; caudal with three 

 cross-bars of dark, intervening fighter areas set with minute, oblong, sharply defined 

 spots of brown, with lighter centers; some of these also found on last dorsal ray; 

 anal spots uniformly dark brown ; pectoral with four or five irregular rows of these 

 spots, on basal half ocellated with white, and a distal cross-stripe of white on upper 

 half; ventrals uniformly dark, save for occasional darker spots on basal portion. 



The peculiar form of the maxillary, the fold of skin along the side of the body, 

 the opercular flap, and many-hooked spine of the pre-opercle, distinguishes this new 

 genus, Calymmichthys from all other Japanese Callionymidce. The opercular flap 

 is found in Synchiropus opercularis (Cuvier and Valenciennes) from India. The 

 hooked spine is found in Calliurichthys but in that genus these hooks are so small 

 as to be called serrations. 



Family GOBIESOCID^. 



335. Aspasma minimum (Doderlein). 

 Misaki, No. 6076a. 



According to Tanaka (Journ. Coll. Sci., Tokyo, XXVII; 1909, p. 25) Aspasma 

 laticephalum Tanaka differs from this species in having several rows of villiform 

 teeth. It then stands alone among Japanese species and is apparently referable 

 rather to the European genus Mirbella Canestrini. 



The dorsal rays in A. minimum are 7, the anal 6. In A. ciconice we have D. 12; 

 A. 8. In A. misakium, D. 14; A. 12. 



336. Aspasma misakitim Tanaka. 



Misaki, No. 6128a. Longest specimen 5.8 cm. in length. 



A shade of pink still left in spirits. This species differs from A. ciconice in 

 the lesser breadth, much smaller disk, and in the greater number of rays in the 

 dorsal and anal fins, as well as in the character, given by Tanaka, of the shorter 

 maxillary and coalescent vertical fins. Teeth in both jaws in one row. 



