ON THE LIPARIS (TRISMEGTSTUS) OWSTONI JORDAN 

 AND SNYDER. 



By Petek Schmidt, 



Of the Acadeiny of Sriciici's, Sf. Pfiersburg. 



There was recenth' described l)y Prof. DaA'id Starr Jordan and J. O. 

 Snyder" a new Liparidid from the deep waters of Japan, which 

 they believed to represent a new g-eniis and species, naniel}', Trmne- 

 gistus oiostoni. By chance a second specimen of this interesting- and 

 undoubtedly new form is in a collection of Japanese fishes which I 

 ])roug"ht home from my journey to Japan in 1901, and so I can in some 

 respects complete the description g-iven by the previously mentioned 

 authors. 





Fig. 1.— Lipakis owstoni. 



A minute comparison of my specimen with the orig-inal description 

 has shown that it is undoubtedl}^ the same form as that described, l^ut 

 I can not agree with the opinion of President Jordan and Mr. J. O. 

 Sn3'der that it must be regarded as representing a new genus, differing* 

 from L'iparh. This new genus differs from Lqxtrk^ according to these 

 eminent American ichthj^ologists, only " in having the skin roug-h with 

 prickles, with broad, rounded bases like thumb tacks." This pecul- 

 iarity can of course be regarded as a generic one, but I must call 



« On a Collection of Fif::hes made Vn' jNIr. Alan Ow^ton in the Deep Waters of Japan. 

 Smiths. Miscell. Coll., XLV, 1904, p. 238, pi. lviii. 



Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXVMI-No. 1390. 

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