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71. ZOARCES GILLII Jordan and Starks, new species. 



Dorsal 84, XIX, 14; {uial 80 f. Headof in length; deijthlo. Eye 

 5 in head; maxillary 2|; snout J-5^. 



Head not at all compressed, as wide as deep. Snout very blunt, its 

 upper surface on same curv(> with top of head, but toward its tip 

 bluntly angulatod and turiiino- steeply downward. Eye at extreme 

 npper profile of head. The interorbital space flat and wide; the 

 extreme width is contained 3f times in head; the l)one, oidy (Sh; times; 

 the interorbital bone, is rather deeply concave for its full width, not 

 channeled along its middle. 



Maxillaiy reaching to below posterior margin of pupil. Lower 

 jaw included. Teeth sharp and more irregular than in Z. ehuxjatiOi; in 

 a single row except in front where 3 or 4 teeth on each side form a 

 double row. Gillrakers short and sharp; 3 + 14 on first arch. 



Scales small, circular, and partially embedded; front of anal and 

 dorsal naked; breast behind base of ventrals with scales. 



Second ra}^ of dorsal is directly above gill opening. 



Fig. 11.— Zoaeces uilli. 



Front of anal twice the length of the head from tip of snout. Pec- 

 toral broad and rounded; its length 1^ in head. Length of ventrals 

 f diameter of eye; ti})s of ventrals just reach to l)ase of pectoral rays. 



Color: Back light brown, abruj^tly changing to white at middle of 

 sides; a narrow, light band along back a little distance below base of 

 dorsal posteriorly separates the greater portion of the black color in 

 this region into a lateral band. Twelve large inconspicuous blotches, 

 larger than the spaces between them, along sides. Top of head dark 

 brown, the sides light ])rown with white spots marking the position of 

 small pores, lower part of head white. Dorsal, light dusky brown; a 

 very conspicuous large, dark-brown spot on front of dorsal, the dorsal 

 margined above it with white. Anal dusk}^ bordered with lighter 

 posteriorly; its greater part white. Other fins white. 



This species difi'ers from Z. cJo/ujattts in having a wide, fiat inter- 

 orbital space; the eyQi^. placed at the upper profile of head; in having 

 a longer spinous dorsal and particularly in color. A specimen of Z. 

 eloiigatus from Iwani in Shiribeshi, Japan, in the ichthyological col- 

 lection, of Stanford University has the head compressed, the interorbital 

 strongly convex, the bone narrow, and high above the eyes. 



The type and sole specinuMi is 24 cm. in length. It was taken at 

 Fusan, Korea, by Jouy, and is numbered45355, U. S. National Museum. 



Named for Dr. Theodore (Jill. 



