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form bands on jaws, vomer, and palatines; tongue smooth; large 

 pseiidobranchise present; gill-rakers 3 + 8, large and strong; opercle 

 with 2 spines, the upper short and broad, the lower longer and more 

 pointed ; preopercle strongly serrate ; subopercle with a few serrations ; 

 edge of interopercle rough ; throat, snout, and top of head naked ; occip- 

 ital and parietals with a few strong radiating ridges, wliich show 

 through the naked skin ; cheeks and opercles scaly ; scales of head and 

 body cycloid, growing slightly ctenoid posteriorly; each scale with a 

 vertical tuberculate ridge, imparting a characteristic rougliness to 

 the covering of the body; fins with minute scales; lateral line follow- 

 ing the contour of back; first dorsal spine very short, almost entirely 

 concealed; the fifth ray longest, 1.8 in head; membrane of spinous 

 dorsal deeply incised between spines, the attached portion of the 

 membrane extending halfway up anterior edge of spine; longest 



StEREOLEPIS ISCHINAGI (YOUN(i, FROM MISAKI). 



dorsal ray 2.8 in head; edge of fin rounded; origin of anal below base 

 of third dorsal ra}^; the spines strong and prominent, the second 4.5 

 in head; margin of fin rather pointed in outline; pectoral unsym- 

 metrical, its upper rays longest, 2.3 in head; ventral 1.6; caudal 

 6.5, lunate. Body olivaceous, with 6 broad, dusky lateral stripes, the 

 first extending along base of dorsal ; the second following lateral line 

 to caudal peduncle, where it joins the third; the fourth passing from 

 base of pectoral to caudal; the fifth and sixth rather indistinct, 

 merging near base of anal; head dusky above; soft dorsal, anal, and 

 pectorals strongly egded with dusky, the soft dorsal narrowly tipped 

 with whitish. Adult nearly plain dark olive. 



We have a specimen 14 inches long, and several smaller ones, from 

 Hakodate. Jordan and Snyder saw specimens in 1900 at Hakodate, 



