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ings, which are continued for a short distance underneath; exposed 

 upper edges of mandible finely banded and vermiculated with pale and 

 dusky; under parts yellowish; dorsals and pectorals with the mem- 

 branes pale, the rays being specked with black, the spots forming rows ; 

 caudal with dark spots in the membranes, the anterior ones small and 

 roundish and forming indistinct rows ; the spots toward back of fin 

 larger and more or loss in the form of elongate lengthwise splashes. 



Specimens. — Tokyo, 4 specimens, 7^ to 8 inches; Misaki, 1 speci- 

 men, 6 inches; Tsuruga, 1 specimen, 7 inches; Nagasaki, 34 speci- 

 mens, 4 to 8 inches; Wakanoura, 19 specimens, 4 to 6^ inches. 



Here described from 2 specimens, 7^ and 8 niches long, from 

 Tsuruga arid Tokyo, respectively. 



The species is generally common in the markets of southern Japan. 



6. THYSANOPHRYS CROCODILUS (Tilesius). 

 INEGOCHI, RiceKochi. 



Platycephalus crocodilus Tilesius, Krusenstern's Reise, 1812, pi. lix, fig. 2 (Naga- 

 saki). — CuviER and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, p. 256 (after 

 Tilesius) . 



Platycephalus punctatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, 

 p. 243 (Hindustan, Voy. Peron).— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fishes, II, 1860, p. 180; 

 Shore Fishes, Challenger, 1880, p. 66 (Inland Sea of Japan). — Day, Fishes 

 India, I, 1878-1888, p. 277, pi. lx, fig. 3 (Indian seas). — Nystrom, Svensk. 

 Vet.-Akad. Handl., 13, IV, No. 4, '1887, p. 25 (Nagasaki).— Steindachner 

 and Doderlein, Beitr. Kennt. Fische Japan's (IV), 1887, p. 259 (Tokyo). — 

 Sauvage, Poiss. Madagascar, 1891, p. 307, pi. xxxvi, figs. 5 and 5a. — Ishikawa, 

 Cat. Fishes Imp. Mus. Tokyo, 1897, p. 48 (Suruga). — Smith and Pope, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXI, 1906, p. 486 (Yamagawa).— Jordan and Seale, 

 Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., XXVI, 1906, p. 38 (Cavite, Philippine Islands). 



Platycephalus (/uttatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, 

 p. 244 (Japan). — TEMMiNCKand Schlegel", Faun. Japon., Pise, 1843, p. 39, 

 pi. XV, fig. 2 (Bay of Nagasaki). — (?) Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 217 

 (Canton).— Namiye, Class. Cat., 1881, p. 104 (Tokyo). 



a In the figure of Temminck and Schlegel the number of dorsal bands is incorrectly 

 represented, being 8 and not 5, as in specimens; and the number of soft dorsal 

 rays is stated in the description to be 12, "and not 10, as said by Cuvier." In all our 

 specimens we find 11 soft dorsal rays, the last one being split fully to the base. Enu- 

 merating, on the other hand, the points of agreement between our specimens (one 

 of which is 14 inches long) and both the figure and description of Temminck and 

 Schlegel, we find the following: 



(1) General color, grayish to reddish-brown, with purplish tinge. 



(2) Distribution of spotting: On back, top of head, int('rorl)ital space, muzzle, and 

 under eyes. 



(3) Spotting of spinous dorsal: The spots in three obscure series, and extending into 

 the membranes. (The young have the outer half of the fin blackish. Schlegel's speci- 

 men was 20 inches long.) 



(4) Coloration of soft dorsal. 



(5) "Adipose," club-like tips of anal rays. 



In all of the points enumerated the present species diffcn-s markedly from T. 

 japonicu^. 



