JORDAN AND THOMPSON: FISHES OBTAINED IN JAPAN IN 1911. 283 
Body subeylindrical, deep, and relatively shorter than in Chelidonichthys kumu; 
snout with two low lobes, each with four very short spines or serrations; maxillary 
reaching to anterior border of orbit. Two prominent preocular spines, and one 
blunt postocular present; a prominent transverse furrow behind the latter. Nuchal 
region rough. 
Dorsal inserted between tips of nuchal spines; third spine 2 in head; third ray 
2.66; first anal rays 3.33 in head; pectoral 1.9 in body length, reaching to base of 
last ray; ventrals extending to fifth anal ray; upper pectoral appendage 3.33 in 
body. 
Seales minute, imbricate, but partially imbedded, those of lateral line slightly 
enlarged; shields along dorsals twenty-five in number, their edges smooth through- 
out, spinous projections well-marked and sharp. 
Color of alcoholic specimens dark, without silvery reflections; an indefinite 
dark space between orbit and corner of mouth, also on lower edge of opercle; two 
dark spots below spinous dorsal opposite third and tenth scutes and one on lateral 
line, one opposite sixteenth dorsal scute, and at end of dorsal, an indefinite one 
below each on lateral line. Spinous dorsal black on distal half; soft dorsal colorless; 
pectorals black inside; ventrals tipped with dark; caudal dusky at tip; anal clear. 
This species differs from Chelidonichthys kwmu in its larger scales, larger eye, 
larger head, and extent of pectoral. Its scales are much smaller than those of 
Lepidotrigla. From L. japonica, which it resembles, it may be easily distinguished 
by the scales, by the lesser depth of the postocular furrow, and shorter nasal pro- 
cesses. 
280. Lepidotrigla alata (Houttuyn). 
Misaki, No. 6099a. 
281. Lepidotrigla guntheri Hilgendorf. 
Misaki, No. 6242a-b; Osaka, 6379a-e. 
282. Lepidotrigla strauchii Steindachner. 
Lepidotrigla microptera Jordan & Richardson, not of Giinther, which is a 
Chinese species. 
Osaka, from Matsushima Bay, No. 6328a—b; Sendai, No. 6305a; Sagami Bay; 
Misaki, No. 6434a-e. 
Spinous dorsal blotch present in young. 
283. Lepidotrigla japonica (Bleeker). (See Fig. 53, p. 284). 
Misaki, No. 6270a-1. 
