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Family Gonorhynchid/E 

 GONORHYNCHUS ABBREVIATUS Schlegel 

 Nezumi-Gisu (Rat-Gisu or Sillago) 

 (Plate LIX) 

 A fine specimen from the Yokohama market. 

 The Japanese species seems to differ from that of the Austrahan 

 seas (Gonorhynchus gonorhync]iiis=G. gronovii^G. greyi^G. 

 hrevis) in the constantly larger head. In the specimen here figured 

 the head is 47^ times in length of body to base of caudal, 4^ times 

 in total length. The depth is about half the length of the head. 

 Eye 4^ in head. 



Mr. E. C. Starks has examined the shoulder girdle of this species ; 

 it has the mesocoracoid arch, as usual with Isospondylous fishes. 

 Its place is apparently with the earliest and most generalized of 

 these forms. 



Family Gempylid.^i 



PROMETHICHTHYS PROMETHEUS (Cuv. and Val.) 



Sumi}aki 

 Two specimens from off Izu ; the name means " charcoal burnt." 

 We obtained the same species in the market of Tokyo, from off 

 Misaki. 



Family LabridtE 



JULIS MUSUME Jordan and Snyder, new species 

 (Plate LXI) 



Two examples, the type No. 8384, Ichthyological collection, 

 Leland Stanford Junior University, and the cotype in the United 

 States National Museum, both from off Izu. 



Head measured to end of opercular flap 33/5 in length to base of 

 caudal fin ; depth 33^ ; depth of caudal peduncle yy^ ; length of 

 snout ■^y^ in head ; diameter of eye 6^ ; width of interorbital space 

 47^ ; number of scales in longitudinal series, counting from upper 

 edge of gill opening, 69 ; in transverse series upward and forward 

 from origin of anal 31 ; dorsal ix, 12 ; anal iii, 12. 



Two rows of teeth in each jaw, the inner of which extends back- 

 ward but a short distance, the teeth small and blunt; outer teeth 

 acutely pointed, the anterior pair of each jaw elongate, the lower 

 pair closely apposed, fitting between the upper ones ; a small pos- 

 terior canine projecting outward and forward from the upper jaw. 



Gill-rakers on first arch 5 -)- 11, short; those on middle of lower 

 limb of arch with sharp tips. 



