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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIOXAL MUSEUM, 



The relationships of this species are with species of the Indian and 

 Philippine faunas, from all of which it differs in the larger eye, which 

 is about as long as the snout. C. marginatus further differs from C. 

 hijostomiis (Smith and Eadcliffe)^ in the posterior position of the 

 anus, which is immediately before the anal fin, and in the spination 

 of the scales, the spinules being aranged in definite parallel series, as 

 also in C. microps (Smith and Radclift'e) , instead of being in quincunx 

 order, as in C. hyostomus. 



The smallest specimen of Coryphaenokles obtained by the Albatross 

 in Japan is 59 mm. long. It was dredged at a depth of 406 fathoms, 

 in the Eastern Sea, at station 4907, at which C. marginatus was also 

 obtained. The specimen can not be specifically identified, owing to 

 its small size and the poor state of preservation; it shows none of 

 the characters of the larval forms described as Krohnius. 



Table of measurements in hutidredths of length to anus. 



A Ibatross station 



Total length, mm 



Zenith to anus, vim 



Length, head 



Length, orbit 



Width, interorbital 



Orbit to prcopercle 



Length, snout 



Length, maxillary 



Length, barbel 



Depth, body 



Width, body 



Height, second dorsal spine. 



Height, third dorsal ray 



Length, first dorsal base 



Interdorsal space 



Height, second dorsal 



Height, anal 



Length, first P. ray 



Length, second P. "ray 



Length, third P. ray 



Length, outer ventral ray. .. 

 Length, second ventral ray.. 



Soft raj's, first dorsal 



Ventral rays 



Pectoral rays 



Serrations, "dorsal spine 



4915 



2 296 



94 



17 

 4.5 

 24.5 

 30.5 

 31.5 



IS 



4907 



2 312 



100 



62.5 



17 



11 



24 



18 



20 

 4 



51 



22 

 114 



40.5 



18 



14 



5 

 21.5 



27 

 33 

 17.5 

 11 



21 



4911 

 2 298 



19.5 

 16 



26 



20.5 



20.5 



17.5 

 19.5 



17.6 

 6 

 29 

 31 

 44 

 21 

 10 



86.5 

 62 

 20 

 12.5 

 23 

 18 



17.5 

 5 

 49 

 26 

 106 



19.5 

 17 



4 



22.5 



30.5 



38 



21 



11 



63 



18 



14 



24 



18.5 



18.5 



4908 

 240+ 

 74 

 65 

 20 

 13 

 25 

 19 



5 

 24.5 



29.5 



4908 

 192 



66 

 21 

 15 

 25 

 20 

 20 

 5 

 54 



5067 

 160 



38.5 



68 



22 



12.5 



24 



19 



20.5 

 6.5 



52 



23 

 120 



6.5 

 23.5 

 30 



[CORYPHAENOmES AWAE Jordan and Gilbert.' 



This species is known only from the type, a mature female 620 mm. 

 long, from off Nanaura, in Awa, in the entrance to the Bay of Tokyo. 

 As stated in the type description, it is related to C. marginatus. A 

 series of proportional measurements has been prepared for further 

 comparison with that species. 



Length to anus, 185 mm.; length of head, 63 hundredths of the 

 length to the anus; length of orbit, 14.8; least width of interorbital, 

 12.3 ; least width of suborbital, 9 ; distance between orbit and margin 

 of preopercle, 27 ; length of snout, 18 ; length of maxillary, 20; length 



iRadclilTe, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 43, 1912, pp. 116 to 122. 



2 A pseiidocandal developed. 



sBull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1902 (1904), p. 608, text figure. 



