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the middle two of which are broader than the others and show a 



tendency to spHt up into narrower bars); belly yellow; soft dorsal 



and caudal with specks on the rays, forming rows; spinous dorsal 



with the rays specked and with the membranes clouded with dusky, 



especially posteriorly; ventrals pale at base and tips, with a blackish 



band across the middle; upper half of pectorals specked in the rays, 



the membrane pale ; lower half of j^ectorals blackish ; anal pale. 



Of this species we have 34 specimens from Nagasaki, 2 to 4^ inches. 



Here described from two specimens from Nagasaki, 4J inches long. 



(spinosus, spinous.) 



3. THYSANOPHRYS MACROLEPIS (Bleeker.) 

 ONESAGOCHI, Eldest Kochi. 



Platycephalus maa-olepis Bleeker, Niewe Nalez. Ichth. Japan, 1857, p. 76, pi. 



IV, fig. 1 (not. good) (Nagasaki).— Gunther, Cat. Fishes, II, 1860, p. 188.— 



Steindachner and Doderlein, Beitr. Kennt. Fische Japan's (IV), 1887, 



p. 260 (Tokyo). 

 Insidiator hosohawae Smith and Pope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXI, 1906, p. 



486, fig. 8 (Urado, island of Shikoku). 



Habitat. — Southern Japan, north to Tokyo. 



Head, 2.8 in length without caudal; depth 6.5; depth of head, 2.65 

 in its length; width of head, 1.4; eye, 4.1 or 4,2; interorbital space, 

 2.6; maxillary, 2.5; nose, 3.3; D. I-VIII-11 or 12; A. 12; scales, 

 38 to 40 ; lateral line smooth. 



Head less strongly armed than in T. sfinosus; superciliary ridges 

 serrated beliind middle of eye ; a short bluntish spine in front of each 

 orbit; infraorbital ridges serrated closely for their whole length, the 

 number of teeth about 12; a deep semicircular notch in the infraor- 

 bital ridge under middle of pupil ; two opercular spines terminating 

 low, short ridges; two scapular spines, the anterior one liighest; 

 post-orbital and parieto-occipital spines low; preopercular spines, 3, 

 the upper reacliing more than halfway from the notch under it to the 

 margin of the operculum; lower preopercular spines short, the third 

 often scarcely developed; lower margin of opercvdar membrane 

 entire; a cirrose lappet on cornea above pupil; jaws, vomer, and 

 palatines with bands of villiform teeth; vomerine bands short, placed 

 lengthwise; no canines; tongue emarginate, with a slight median 

 convexity. 



First dorsal slightly higher than second, the longest spine 2.16 in 

 head; anal inserted slightly beliind soft dorsal; margin of anal and 

 soft dorsal not noticeably notched between the rays; pectorals, 2.2 

 in head; ventrals, 1.6; caudal subtruncate, scarcely rounded. 



Color in spirits light yellowish brown, the back crossed by 4 or 5 

 indistinct dusky bars; belly yellowish; dorsals, caudal, pectorals, and 

 ventrals with black specks on the rays, arranged more or less in 

 rows; last membranes of spinous dorsal faintly clouded with dusky; 

 anal pale. 



