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We have" examined specimens from localities as follows: Kobe, 7 

 specimens, 4^ to 5^ inches; Tokyo, 15 specimens, 5 to 8i inches; 

 Tokyo, market, 6 specimens, 5 to 6 inches; Nagasaki, 4 specimens, 5 to 

 6 inches; Kagoshima, 1 specimen, 6 inches; Kawatana, 1 specimen, 

 5^ inches; Misaki, 2 specimens, 6 to 7 inches; Aomori, 29 specimens, 

 2 to 3 inches; Tsuruga, 6 specimens, 3^ to 5 inches. 



Here described from two specimens, 7^j and 9 inches long, from 

 Misaki and Tokyo, respectively. Jordan and wSnyder observed speci- 

 mens also at Wakanoura, Hakodate, and Matsushima. 



lO. OTOHIME Jordan and Starks. 



Otohime Jordan and Stakks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXII, 1907, p. 13, 

 (hemisticta.) 



Back with blunt shields along base of spinous dorsal; base of soft 

 dorsal unarmed; opercular spine very long; dorsal rays VIII-10; 

 anal 11; a distmct anal spine; scales small as in ChelidonicJithys, 

 with no transverse bony plates along lateral line; no palatine teeth, 

 characters otherwise those of family. 



{Otohime, a goddess of fishes, in Japanese folk-lore.) 



19. OTOHIME HEMISTICTA (Temminck and Schlegel). 

 KANADO, Metal Fish. 



Trigla hemisticta Temminck and Schlegel, Faun. Japon. Pise, 1847, p. 36, pi. 

 XIV, figs. 3 and 4; pi. xiv B (Nagasaki). — Richardson, Ichth. China and 

 Japan, 1846, p. 218 (Canton).— Gunther, Cat. Fishes, II, 1860, p. 201 

 (after Schlegel ).—Nystrom, Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 13, IV, 1887, No. 4, 

 p. 21 (Nagasaki). 



Otohime hemisticta, Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXII, 1907, 

 p. 132, fig. (Misaki or Awa, outside bay of Tokyo). 



Head (without opercular or rostral spines), 2.75; depth at occiput 

 4.50; eye 3 in head; maxillary 2; D. VIII-10; A,I,11; scales 105. 



General form of body as in the species of Chelidonichtliys and 

 Lepidotrigla, the scales being very small, as in the former genus ; oper- 

 cular spine very long; fourth dorsal spine longest; pectoral reaching 

 to opposite base of third anal ray; longest detached pectoral ray not 

 reaching to tip of ventral. 



Color, in alcohol, gray above, clouded or vaguely blotched and 

 specked with dark; lower portion of sides and belly abruptly white; 

 spinous dorsal with a large and well-defined dark spot between the 

 fourth and sixth spines. 



This species has very recently been fully redescribetl l)y Messrs. 

 Jordan and Starks on the basis of a specimen brought from Yokohama 

 by Mr. Pierre Louis Jouy, and probably caught at Misaki or Awa, 

 outside the ])ay of Tokyo. Its generic characters, together with the 



