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Family YLMM\]IADM. 



34. POMADASIS HASTA (Bloch). 



A specimen 12 cm. in leno-th. 



Family SCI.ENID.E. 



35. COLLICHTHYS LUCIDUS (Richardson). 



A small specimen from Korea, Bernadou coll. D. IX-2T. A. II. 

 12. Scales f.O. 



4. LARIMICHTHYS Jordan and Starks, new genus. 



This genus is close to Lariiaux^ ditfering- in having cycloid scales, 

 unequal teeth, weak anal spines, and more cavernous head. 



Fig. .s.— Larimichthys rathbun.e. 



36. LARIMICHTHYS RATHBUN^E Jordan and Starks, new species. 



Dorsal IX, 37; anal II, 10; few scale's remaining, about 1-7. Head 

 ?)h: in length; depth 8f. Eye 3| in head; snout 4: interorbital space 

 34; maxillary If; height of caudal peduncle -1. 



Body compressed, deepest at the nape, tapering quickly backward 

 to a rather narrow caudal peduncle; the outline under the dorsal tins 

 forming a straight line. Mouth oblique; lower jaw projecting and 

 with a low broad knob which fits into a shallow notch between pre- 

 maxillaries. Anterior end of premaxilkuy on a level with middle of 

 eve. Maxillary broad posteriorly reaching to below posterior margin 

 of orbit; its whole length slipping under the transparent sheath pro- 

 jecting downward from suborbitals. Teeth in narrow bands, small 

 and rather uneven, at intervals a curved tooth extends bej^ond the 

 others, but they are scarcely long enough to be called canines. No 

 teeth on vomer or palatines. Top of head and preopercular region 

 rather cavernous. Gill-rakers long and slender, the longest f the 

 diameter of the eye. 



