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above and below the angle; operculum with 2 thin, flat, short spines; 

 gill rakers long and slender, 23 or 24 on lower limb of outer arch, 

 the longest exceeding in length the corresponding filaments. Scales 

 moderate, finely ctenoid, thin, and easily deciduous; entire head 

 scaled, except mandibles and snout. Spinous dorsal inserted almost 

 directly over base of ventrals; dorsal spines slender, sharp, the fourth 

 longest, its length little more than diameter of eye ; soft dorsal lower 

 than spinous; caudal deeply emarginate, the middle rays about 

 three-fifths length of outer; first anal spine extremely short, seven 

 or eight times in length of second, which is about seven-eighths of 

 third; ventrals inserted a trace behind pectorals, falling short of 

 vent, 2 in head, the spine long and slender; pectoral long and pointed, 

 about 1.3 in head, reaching past vent, but not to base of anal. 



Color in spirits silvery, olivaceous above; in 1 specimen are to 

 be seen on the sides traces of 2 or 3 longitudinal crimson stripes; a 



Fig. 1. — Malakichthys griseus, type of Satsuma maceops. 



small black blotch near margin of each membrane of spinous dorsal 

 back of third spine. 



The above descri})tion is taken from 5 specimens 6 to 8 inches (to 

 tip of caudal), from different localities on Sagami Bay; Yodomi, 

 Misaki, and Odawara. It lives in rather deep water. It is recorded 

 by Smith and Pope from Kagoshima, in the province of Satsuma. 



In spite of certain discrepancies between the descriptions of Smith 

 and Pope and Doderlein in the matter of number of scales, length of 

 dorsal spines, length of pectoral, depth of notch between dorsals, 

 and in the account of the coloration, we do not feel justified in 

 regarding the species macrops and griseus as distinct. Our speci- 

 mens show considerable variation both in the length of the pectoral 

 and in the depth of the cleft between the dorsals. In all but a single 



