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length, with seven branched rays, not extending forwards to below the 

 dorsal. 



Distrih ution : Formosa . 



Remarks: The present genus is closely related to Ilemitreruia Cope. 

 It differs, however, in having three and four teeth in the second row, 

 instead of two as in the latter, as also in the carinate belly. 



30. Phoxiscus kikuchii sp. nov. (Plate LI, Fig. 3). 



Head 3.5 in length; depth 3.5; D. 2, 7; A. 2, 7; P. 13; V. 7; width 

 of head 1.75 in its length; eye four in head; interorbital space 2.33; 

 snout 3; pectoral 1.5; ventral 1.75; thirty scales in a lateral series, 

 five scales in an oblique series between origin of dorsal and lateral line, 

 six scales between the latter and the middle of belly, two scales be- 

 tween lateral line and the root of ventral; pharyngeal teeth 5, 3 — 4, 4; 

 gill-rakers 2 + 5. 



Body elongate, compressed, post\'entral part weakly keeled; head 

 moderate, its top rather flat; snout obtusely rounded anteriorly, 

 interorbital space broad, more or less convex; mouth oblique, with 

 thin lips; lower jaw slightly longer than the upper; no barbel; maxil- 

 lary scarcely reaching a vertical through anterior border of orbit; eye 

 moderate, superior and anterior; nostrils close together, the anterior 

 in a short tube; pharyngeal teeth slender and hooked; gill-rakers on 

 the first arch short and separated. 



Dorsal fin short, nearer the base of caudal than the tip of snout, 

 anterior ray the longest, its height 1.4 in length of head; pectoral fin 

 not reaching the ventral, with a small fleshy flap; the ventral inserted in 

 front of the origin of dorsal, rather slender; anal fin entirely behind the 

 dorsal, rather short, anterior ray the longest, its height 1.66 in head; 

 caudal fin cmarginate, tip of each lobe pointed. 



Body covered with large imbricated scales; lateral line incomplete, 

 decurved, reaching posterior third of the ventral. 



Color in alcohol brownish gray above, lower parts yellowish; top 

 of head and dorsal median line purplish; sides with a bluish gray 

 longitudinal band; all the fins uniformly cream-colored. 



Total length 60 mm. 



Described from a specimen from Bokusekikaku, collected by Yone- 

 taro Kikuchi of the Taihoku Museum. 



Habitat: Bokusekikaku (a single specimen). . 



Remarks: Named for Vonetaro Kikuchi, collector of the Taihoku 

 Museum. 



