300 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 



The type is a specimen four hundred and sixty millimeters in total length, from 

 Noto, in Hondo, Japan, No. 6004 Carnegie Museum Catalog of Fishes. 



Head 4.4 in length; depth 8.75 (2 in head) ; maxillary 2.6 in head; eye 8; snout 

 3.5; pectoral 1.6; ventral 1.33 in eye; D. 97; A. 76; P. 20; V. 3. 



Lower jaw included, teeth of upper exposed; maxillary ending under center of 

 eye ; snout vertical at tip ; skin of maxillaries continued as a prominent flap forward 

 half the length of mandible; free inner edge of mandibular rami produced as flaps 

 of greatest height (1.66 in eye) anteriorly, forming there a right-angled projection 

 immediately below symphysis of lower jaw; teeth in upper jaw extending but half 

 distance from snout to end of maxillary, in a single row, coarse and large, slightly 

 hooked; teeth in lower jaw closing between those of upper jaw and palatines; a 

 single series posteriorly, large and strong, most so at middle of lower jaw, where it 

 is replaced by two well-separated rows of much smaller teeth ; palatine teeth similar 

 to those in upper jaw; in a single row on each side; vomer with two larger and 

 stronger canine teeth pointing backwards. Anus half diameter of eye further from 

 flap of opercle than is tip of snout. 



Dorsal inserted over middle of pectoral, nearly the length of the snout behind 

 the upper angles of the gill-openings, its longest rays posteriorly, where they are 

 half again as long as anteriorly; dorsal and anal united and continuous with caudal; 

 anal similar to dorsal, its insertion under the twenty-fourth ray of dorsal; length of 

 pectoral 1.5 in head; ventrals 1.33 in eye. 



Scales scattered sparsely over tail and sides of body as far forward as 

 diameter of eye in front of dorsal insertion; none on head, belly, or pectorals; dorsal 

 and anal scaled posteriorly nearly to margin, anteriorly more and more in base 

 alone until the first rays are scaleless. 



Color in general formed by brown reticulations around vague white blotches, 

 latter best developed near base of dorsal, on its lower half and on dorsal surface 

 of head, brown, becoming nearly uniform on flanks; belly white, as is ventral surface 

 of head; dorsal and anal margined with brownish black, narrowly anteriorly, but so 

 broad posteriorly and on caudal as to color half of fins; frequently a white oblique 

 streak interrupting the marginal color; twelve or thirteen of these on dorsal, ar- 

 ranged in pairs; one or two on anal; pectorals margined with dusky, with a colorless 

 edge. 



This species is very near Ly codes palearis and L. brevipes. In color it resembles 

 to some degree L. reticulatus of the Atlantic. 



