280 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGI£ MUSEUM. 
Family BEMBRID-®. 
270. Bembras japonicus Cuvier & Valenciennes. 
Nagasaki, one example, No. 4167a. 
Family AGONID.®. 
271. Tilesina gibbosa Schmidt. (Plate X XXIII, fig. 1). 
Hokkaido, Japan, No. 6022a-f. An adult and a number of young. 
This species is described in Russian in Schmidt’s Pisces Marium Orientalium 
and beautifully figured. In order to provide a description for those unable to read 
Russian our adult specimen is here described, length 29 em. 
Head 4.5 in body without caudal, 5.2 in total length; depth 2.33 in head; 
D. XVIII-9; A. 26; P. 15; V. I, 2; body-plates 51, transverse 5; eye 5.5 in head; 
snout 3; maxillary 3.66; interorbital space 8; breadth at opercles 2. 
Head conical; snout somewhat elongate; lower jaw strongly projecting; maxil- 
lary just failing to reach anterior border of eye; pre-orbital swollen, where it covers 
maxillary; each plate on sides of head and temporal region with a blunt apex or a 
sharp spine, those on opercles and cheek highest; a rough ridge forming upper 
posterior border of eye; each plate of body with a posteriorly directed sharp spine, 
rows converging on breast, with blunter spines in this region; lateral line with a 
small series of spinate plates half the breadth of those above them; three plates on 
base of pectoral; line of back between occiput and dorsal with small spinules in an 
irregular row, belly similar in posterior half; anterior half of median line of belly 
soft, not armed; anus midway between insertion of anal and isthmus. 
Spinous dorsal inserted over seventh body-plate; first spine highest, 1.75 in 
head, last adnate to back; insertion of second dorsal three plates posterior to tip 
of last spine, over thirty-second body-plate, first ray 2.5 in head; caudal 1.66 in 
head; anal inserted opposite sixteenth body-plate, its termination two plates 
posterior to that of soft dorsal; pectoral reaching insertion, first ten rays of nearly 
equal length; ventrals under pectoral base, reaching half-way to anal. 
Color nearly uniform on body, a narrow dark stripe through eye from snout, 
continued as a row of spots along lateral line, more distant posteriorly; two upper 
pectoral rays dark, two indistinct transverse rows of spots in upper half of pectoral; 
dorsal, anal, and caudal uniformly dark-hued, nearly black. 
272. Brachyopsis rostratus (Tilesius). (Plate XXXII, fig. 2). 
Taruku Island, Nemuro, Hokkaido, No. 6032 (Coll. Owston). 
This agrees with specimens from the Kuriles. D. varying from VII-8 to 
IX-8. Body-plates 45. 
