NOo 1581. 



FISHES OF JAPAN— JORDAN AND RICHARDSON. 



633 



2. THYSANOPHRYS SPINOSUS (Temminck and Schlegel), 

 ONIGOCHI. Devil Kochi. 



Platyccphalus spinosus Temminck and Schlegel, Faun. Jap., Pise, 1843, p. 40, 

 pi. XVI, figs. 1, 2 (Nagasaki). — Richardson, Iclith. China and Japan, 1846, 

 p. 217 (Canton).— Bleeker, Niewe Nalez. Ichth. Japan, 1857, p. 77 (Naga- 

 saki). — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fishes, II, 1860, p. 190 (Japan). — Ishikawa, Cat. 

 Fishes Imp. Mus. Tokyo, 1897, p. 48 (Izu). 



Imidiator ynacmlcpis Smith and Pope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXI, 1906, 

 p. 487 (Kagoshima; Yamagawa). (Not Platycephalus macrolepis of Bleeker.) 



Hahitat. — Southern Japan from Suruga Bay to Southern Cliina. 



Head, 2.6 or 2.7 in length wdthout caudal; depth, 6.3; depth of 

 head, 2.5; width of head, 1.3; eye, 4 to 4.2; interorbital space, 3 to 

 3.2 in eye; maxillary, 2.5; nose, 3.5; D. I-VIII-11 or 12; A. 12; 

 scales, 40; scales of anterior tliird or half of lateral line armed with 

 short but sharp spines. 



Head much roughened with spines and serrated ridges; supercil- 

 iary ridges mth about 12 close serratures extending their entire 



Fig. 2.— Th-ssanophrys spinosus. 



length; a spine and 2 or 3 smaller serratures in front of each orbit; 

 infraorbital ridges serrated closely for their entire length, being inter- 

 rupted by a slightly deeper notch opposite pupil; J^ost-orbital, 

 parie to-occipital, opercular, scapular, and humeral spines well devel- 

 oped; preopercular spines 3, the upper stout, reaching more than 

 halfway to the opercular margin; a shallow notch in the margin of 

 the opercular membrane under the preopercular spines; a cirrose 

 lappet on cornea above pupil; teeth villiform, in bands on jaws, 

 vomer, and palatines; vomerine bands set lengthwise; no canines; 

 tongue trilobed (emarginate, wdth a secondary median convexity). 



First dorsal somewhat liigher than second, the longest spine 2.1 or 

 2.2 in head; anal inserted slightly beliind soft dorsal; soft dorsal 

 and anal margin scarcely notched between the rays; pectorals, 1.8 to 

 2 in head; ventrals, 1.4; caudal sub truncate, but slightly rounded. 



Color in alcohol dark grayish-brown above, the back crossed with 

 4 to 6 indefinite bands of darker color (there being typically 4 bands, 



