244 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 
in the drawing) to caudal peduncle. The body is covered with small, circular, 
cycloid, deciduous scales, a few only remaining near the middle of the body behind 
the pectoral. One was found below the pectoral in the region where they are 
enlarged in Caristius japonicus. It was not larger than the others. The cheek 
Fie. 18. Caristius japonicus Smith & Pope. (From Proc. U. 8. N. M., Vol. XXXI, p. 491). 
and opercle was fully sealed, the scales similar to those on the body, though few 
scales now remain. The lateral line is distinct and runs from the upper part of the 
opercle on a level with the upper margin of the pupil, straight back, with no curve 
whatever, to the middle of the caudal base. There was probably a sheath of scales 
along the base of the dorsal and anal, as in Pteraclis, but the scales are smaller and 
more deciduous than in this genus. 
There are rather slender teeth in a straight row on the edges of both jaws and 
on the vomer and palatines. The cheek is deep and triangular, about four-fifths 
of the diameter of the eye in depth. The gill-rakers are rather slender, the longest 
about half the diameter of the pupil and they number 6+ 14. 
The pectorals are a little shorter than head, reaching about to ninth anal ray. 
