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directly over posterior margin of orbit, its lenoth equal to postorlntal 

 part of head; the three anterior spines graduated, connected by mem- 

 brane, but separated from the fourth spine; the last two dorsal spines 

 also somewhat separated from the others; anal tin rather short, its 

 longest ray, 3.50 in head; ventrals small, short, 2.20 in head; pectorals 

 entire, equal to length of head; caudal rounded, 1.20 in head. 



Color in spirits, mottled everywhere with yellowish brown; anterior 

 half of caudal white, posterior portion of pectorals brown with a dusky 

 blotch on posterior third; other tins mottled Avith brown. 



Two specimens from Hongkong, China. Length, 0.85-1.15 inches. 

 The type is Cat. No. 52081, U.S.N.M. From the absence of palatine 

 teeth it is perhaps a representative of a subgenus distinct from 

 JProsopodasys. 



Family GOBllDyJl 



BOSTRYCHUS SINENSIS Lacepede. 



Head, 3.75 in length; depth, 6.05; eye, 6.50 in head; villiform teeth 

 on jaws, vomer, and palatines; D. VI-I, 12; A. I, 9; a brown ocellus 

 on upper base of the caudal fin; brownish in spirits. 



Two specimens of the widely difi'used species, from Shanghai. 

 Length -1.75-5.50 inches. 



MOGURNDA OBSCURA (Schlegel). 



Head, 2.80 in length; depth, 6; eye, 6 in head; D. Vn-9; A. 9; 

 scales, 38; bands of small teeth in jaws, none on vomer or palatines; 

 head scaled; maxillary reaching to below middle of eye. 



Color in spirits, l)rownish, with blotches and black dots; fins with 

 brown bands. 



One specimen from Shanghai, China. Length, 5 inches. It is iden- 

 tical with Japanese specimens. We can not separate the Asiatic genus 

 called OdontoJnitis Bleeker from the Australian Mogurnda^ of Gill. 



ELEOTRIS BALIA Jordan and Scale, new species. 



Head, 3.20 in length; depth, 4.50; D. Vl-9; A. 9; scales, about 47 to 

 end of last caudal vertebra; 48 scales between origin of dorsal and 

 snout; eye, 6.50 in head, 1.75 in snout, 2 in interorbital space; maxil- 

 lary extending to below middle of eye. 



Body moderately elongate, slightly compressed; caudal peduncle 

 deep, 2.90 in head; head rather fiat, depressed, the interorbital space 

 almost flat; scales very small on top of head and on cheeks, minute 

 on belly and thorax, larger on sides and largest on caudal peduncle; 

 bands of small teeth in jaws, none on vomer or palatines; a rather dis- 

 tinct spine directed downward on the posterior margin of preopercle; 

 origin of spinous dorsal over the posterior third of ventrals, the long- 

 est dorsal spine, 2.75 in head; six series of scales between base of 



