!■ LATFISHES (H i'rrHROSOMAlA) 



2. LEl'IDOPSETTA MUCHIGAKEI, Snyder. 



Lepidopsetla bilineata (part), Schmidt, iqo4, Pise. Mar. Orient., p. 23::. 



Lepidopsflla mocliigaui, Snyder, igii, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xl, p. 547 ; Snyder, ioi~, Pror. U.S. 

 Nat. Mns., xlii, p. 441), pi. Iviii, fig. 2 ; Jordan, Tanaka and Snyder. 1013, J. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, 

 xxxiii (I), p. 326; Hubbs, 1915, Proc. U.S. Nat. .Mus., xlviii, p. 476; Tanaka, 1917, Fish. 

 Japan, xxv, p. 450, pi. cxxiii, fig. 352 ; Hubbs, 1918, Annot. Zool. Japon., ix, p. 370 ; Jordan 

 and Hubbs, 1925, Mem. Carnegie Mus., x, p. 299 ; Soldatov and Lindberg, 1930, Bull. Pac. 

 Sci. I-'lsh. Inst.. V, p. 400. 



B.M. (X.H.) 192 



Close to the preceding species, but dejith of body I J to nearly twice in the lenxth : 

 lipper profile fif head nearly strai^jht Snout blunter, shorter than eye, diameter of 

 which is 4 to ^l in length of head : interorbital ridge a little narrower. Teeth bluntly 



conical; dent.il formula ^IT T-^ ■ Scales mostly cycloid on both sides of 



body, a number of ctenoid or tuberculate scales on ocular side of head and a few 

 scattered ones on anterior part of body ; 86 to 90 scales in longitudinal series above 

 lateral line. 41 to 4O between lateral line and middle of back. Posterior prolongation 

 of supratemporal branch of lateral line extending to below tenth ray of dorsal fin ; 

 mucous pores on head prominent. Dorsal 71-74 (80) .\nal (57) .5S (61). fniformly 

 brownish. 



Type. — United States National .Museum. No, 68245. 



Distribution. — Gulf of Tartary and southern Sakhahn, 

 Sea of Japan to Corea. 



vards through the 



Specimens E;x.\mined : 

 2 (255, 300 mm.). 

 I (270 mm.). 



Tokvo Market. 



Sea of Japan, off Tajii 



Tokyo 

 Berg. 



Imp. Univ. 



