NO. 1581. FISHES OF JAPAN— JORDAN AND RICHARDSON. 653 



Bay, station 3715, off Ose Point, in 64 to 65 fathoms, 1 specimen, 5 

 inches. 



This is the commonest species of the genus in Japan, except about 

 Nagasaki, where Lepidotrigla alata is more abundant. It extends its 

 range well to the northward. It is commonest about the shores, 

 although running also into deeper water. 



The above description is based on two specimens, 11 and s inches 

 long, taken at Aomori and Tokyo. 



15. LEPIDOTRIGLA GXJNTHERI Hilgendorf. 



Lepidotrigla (J untheri HihGENDORF, Gos. Naturf. Freunde, 1879, p. 106(^Tokyo). — 

 Jordan and Starks, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., XXII, 1902, p. 594. (Locali- 

 ties given below.) 



Lepidotrigla longipinnis Steindachner and Doderleik, Beitr. Kennt. Fische 

 Japan's, 1887, IV, p. 262, pi. iv, fig. 1 (Tokyo). 



Habitat. — Japan, north to Tokyo. 



Head, 3.25; depth, 4.4 to 4.6; D. VIII-15 or 16; A. 15 or 16; 

 scales, 56-58: eye, 3 (young) to 3.4; snout, 2.2; maxillary, 2.4; 

 interorbital space, 3.8 to 4; second dorsal spine, 1.25 (young) to 1.5; 

 pectoral, 1.2; ventral, 1.3. 



Snout moderately emarginate, the lateral prominences rather broad 

 and unevenly serrated; interorbital space quite concave in young, in 

 adults the excavation forming a broad, almost flat-bottomed groove; 

 two small preocular spines; a low post ocular spine with a cross fur- 

 row behind it; nuchal spine reacliing to base of second dorsal spine, 

 its inner edge rather strongly serrate; opercular spine reaching but 

 little past opercular opening, humeral spine sharp, reaching past 

 fourth dorsal spine; pectoral reaching to vertical from base of fourth 

 soft dorsal ray; upper detached pectoral ray extending nearly to tip 

 of ventral; dorsal scutes strong, with long and sharp spines, these 

 becoming increasingly sharp posteriorly. 



Color brown, with 3 brown cross shades, one under each dorsal and 

 one at base of caudal, these becoming fainter with age; young with 

 a blackisii bar at tip of caudal; pectoral black witliin; back mot- 

 tled; no black dorsal spot, but sometimes a dusky cross shade on 

 dorsal; no sharp line on side bounding the pale color of belly. 



This species is readily distinguished fi'om L. microptera by its dif- 

 ferent coloration, by its long, saw-edged second dorsal spine, better 

 developed cephalic armature, longer and sharper dorsal scutes, and 

 longer pectoral appendages. For the differences between it and 

 L. abyssalis see the description of that species. 



(Named for Dr. Albert Gimther.) 



We have examined specimens fi*om the following locaHties : North- 

 west Pacific, station 5070, Suruga Bay {Albatross, 1906), 108 fath- 

 oms, 1 specimen, 3 inches; Northwest Pacific, station 4876, Tsushima 

 Strait (Albatross, 1906), 59 fathoms, 9 specimens, IJ to 4i inches; 



