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Color in spirits pale muddy pinkish, everywhere densely and finel}" 

 specked with black, including- back, sides, belly, and head; hns and 

 branch iostegals, with the exception of the pectorals, yet more densely 

 specked with black, so that to the naked eye they appear almost jet 

 black, especially at margins; pectorals pale; lightly specked with 

 d^sk^^ 



This species is close to Cldoea castanea (O'Shaughness}^), from which 

 it ditl'ers in its much longer maxillary and in coloration. It is here 

 described from 3 specimens, If to 2 inches in length, from Nagaoka, 

 in Echigo, Japan. 



The type is No. 20163, Stanford University. Cotypes are in the 

 U. S. National Museum. Two of the specimens are females, distended 



, .-K^-f^l^^as^ 



Fig. 3.— CHLOEA NAK.iMl'R.E. 



with eggs, and a singk> one (the type) is a n^ale. It isprobal)lo tjiat 

 the dark color on fins and l)ranchiostegals is partially the evanescent 

 nuptial coloration. The speckling- of the belly (in l)oth sexes) and the 

 longer maxillary of this species sufticiently separate it from ChloPa 

 castanea. 



In the same collection with these species are numerous .specimens of 

 CJixnoijohluH riua'Tognaihox (Bleekcr) and of CliloPa sarchyunh Jordan 

 and Snyder. 



(Named for Masao Nakamura, a Japanese naturalist.) 



