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thick, with chin and lower surface of lower jaw with innumerable 

 closely set fine papillae having barbel like prolongations but without 

 any grooves or deep pores; teeth villiform in jaws, on vomer and 

 palate; interorbital low, nearly level. Scales in lateral line 100. D. 

 XI, 19, third spine 4% in total head length, fourth ray 21/8 ; A. Ill, 

 13, third spine 5; first ray 2yV; caudal 1%, slightly emarginate; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2% ; pectoral 1% ; ventral 21/5. Black- 

 ish gray, fins darker. Length 458 mm. (Day.) 

 India. 



HAPALOGENYS NIGRIPINNIS (Schlegel) 



Pogonias nlgripinnis Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Poiss., pts. 2-4, 1843, p. 59, pi. 25. 

 Nagasaki Bay. 



Hapalogenys nigripirmis Guntheb, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mns., vol. 1, 1859, p. 317 

 (China). — Steindachner, Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. "Wien, vol. 11, 1896, 

 Heft 2, p. 198 (Kobe, Hiogo, Nagasaki).— Franz, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., 

 vol. 4, Suppl. Band 1, 1910, p. 46 (Aburatsubu). — Jordan and Thompson, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 1912, p. 551 (Wakanoura and Tsuruga). — 

 EvEEMANN and Shaw, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 16, No. 4, Jan. 

 31, 1927, p. 117 (Ningpo). 



Hapalogenis nigripinms Steindachner and DoDEaiLEiN, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. 

 Wien, Math.-nat. Klasse, vol. 48, 1884, p. 10 (Tokyo). 



Hapalogenys nitens Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat Hist., vol. 13, 1844, p. 463. 

 Canton: Zool. Voy. Sulphur, Fish, 1844, p. 84, pi. 43, figs. 1-2 (China Seas, 

 Macao ) . 



Hapalogenys macula tus Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, 1846, p. 235. China 

 Seas, Canton. — Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch., No. 4, vol. 26, 1857, p. 65 

 (Nagasaki) ; Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Neerland., vol. 3, No. 10, 1857, p. 5 (Japan). 



Depth 1% to 2 ; head 21/3 to 234, width 1% to 2. Snout 21/3 to 3iV 

 in head; eye 4i^ to 5%, ll^ to 2% in snout, ll^ in interorbital, 

 greater than interorbital in young; lips fleshy, papillate; teeth 

 bluntly conic, minute, outer rows larger; interorbital 41/0 to 4%, 

 convex; preopercle edge denticulate. Gill rakers 6 + 12. lanceolate, 

 robust, 1% in eye. 



Scales 48 to 50 in lateral line, 66 counted along above lateral line, 

 56 counted along below; 11 or 12 scales above lateral line, 18 or 19 

 below, predorsal 47 extending little forward of nostrils, 22 rows 

 on cheek of which 6 on preopercle flange. Scales with 8 to 12 basal 

 radiating striae ; apical denticles 45 or 46, slender, with 7 or 8 trans- 

 verse series of basal elements ; circuli fine. 



D. XI, 15 or 16, fourth spine 2xV to 2i/4 in head, fifth ray 

 2tV to 214; A. Ill, 9, second spine 22/3 to 43/5, third ray 21/5 to 2l^; 

 caudal 1% to 2, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% 

 to 3; pectoral 1% to 2; ventral ll^ to 1%. 



Brown, clouded darker, below pale. Ventrals blackish terminally 

 in young. 



China, Japan. 



59734 U.S.N.M. Kochi. Dr. H. M. Smith. Length 134 mm. 



75497 U.S.N.M. Wakanoura. Jordan and Snyder. Length 268 mm. 



