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Tokyo, 1 specimen, 8 inches; Suruga Bay, off Ose Point, several 

 specimens, under 5 inches, taken in depths of from 60 to 500 fath- 

 oms; Totomi Bay, station 3727, under 5 inches; Yokohama, market, ' 

 1 specimen, nearly a foot in length. 



Measurements used in above description made on two specimens 8 

 and 5 inches long, taken at Tokyo and in Suruga Bay. 



i6. LEPIDOTRIGLA ABSYSSALIS Jordan and Starks. 



Lepidotrigla japonica NysTROM, Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 13, IV, No. 4, 1887, 



p. 23 (Nagasaki). (Name preoccupied.) 

 Lepidotrigla abyssalis Jordan and Starks, Bull. U. S. P^isH Com., XXII, 1902, 



p. 595, fig. (Suruga Bay). 



Habitat. — Japan, north to Tokyo, in rather deep water. 



Head 3; depth 4.2; D.VIII-15; A.15; scales 56; eye 3.16 in head; 

 snout 2.5; maxillary 2.75; interorbital space 4; first dorsal spine 2.1; 

 second dorsal spine 1.75; pectoral 1.1; ventral 1.25. 



Snout almost truncate at tip, a sharp spine slightly projecting at 

 each angle; interorbital space rather deeply concave; a short narrow 

 cross furrow above posterior margin of eye, as in L. gilntheri; nuchal 

 spines and ridges little developed; humeral spine moderately strong, 

 reaching vertical from third dorsal spine; second dorsal spine some- 

 what longer than third, but more slender and much less elevated than 

 in L. guntheri; upper detached pectoral ray reaching tip of ventral, 

 which reaches to base of second anal ray, pectoral reacliing to vertical 

 from base of fifth ray of soft dorsal. 



Color mottled red; pectoral bluish black, other fins without mark- 

 ings; no traces of a spot on spinous dorsal. 



In its long pectoral appendages, postorbital furrow, and plain 

 colored spinous dorsal this species resembles L. guntheri. From that 

 species it differs, however, in its more slender dorsal spines and shorter 

 second spine, which is also not strongly serrated. 



(a^vffffog, an abyss; in allusion to the deep water habitat of this 

 species.) 



We have examined specimens from the following localities : Station 

 4904, Albatross, 1906, 107 fathoms. One specimen, 4 inches (head 

 not as smooth as in type of L. abyssalis: otherwise identical) ; Suruga 

 Bay, station 5713, 50 to 60 fathoms, one specimen, 3J inches. 



The above description is condensed from the original description 

 by Jordan and Starks, who first described it from Cat. No. 51440, 

 U.S.N.M. This is apparently the species named japoiiica by Nystrom, 

 but there was already a japonica in this genus. 



17. LEPIDOTRIGLA JAPONICA (Bleeker). 



Prionotus japonicus Bleeker, Niewe Nalez. Ichth. Japan, 1857, p. 75, pi. v, 

 fig. 1 (Japan). — Gunther, Cat. II, 1860, p. 196. 



Lepidotrigla japonica Steindachner and Doderlein, Fische Japans, 1887, IV, 

 p. 264 (Oshima; Kagoshima). — Jordan and Starks, Bull. U. S. Fish. Com., 

 XXII, 1902, p. 596, fig.; (Misaki). (Not of Nystrom). 



