NO. 1792. JAPANESE LUTIANID2E— JORDAN AND THOMPSON. 



441 



Head 2 f ill, body length ; depth 2f; eye 3^ in head; snout 3|; max- 

 illary If; mandible If; interorbital space 5; preorbital width T^^; 

 D. VIII, 12; A. Ill, 10; scales 12-52-20. 



Body rather short and deep, compressed; caudal peduncle com- 

 pressed and deep, its least width 1.65 in eye, its least depth 2^ in 

 head; back gently and regularly arched from snout to caudal pedun- 

 cle, somewhat depressed in front of eyes; head large and deep; eyes 

 very large, rather high; nostrils close together, the posterior the 

 larger; mouth very large, somewhat oblique, jaws subequal; maxil- 

 lary very broad at tip, scarcely slipping under preorbital; teeth in a 

 strong villiform band on upper jaw, composed of two rows, the outer 

 in front canine-like; those of lower jaw in one series, except in front. 



Fig. 1. — Glaucosoma burgeri. 



where they are somewhat irregular; a large patch of villiform teeth 

 on tongue and hyoid bone; a narrow V-shaped patch on vomer, 

 apparently none on palatines. Angle of preopercle with coarse blunt 

 teeth. 



Fins moderate; dorsal spines rather short but strong, the soft part 

 of dorsal somewhat elevated; longest dorsal spine 3^ in head, longest 

 ray Ij^; anal similar to soft dorsal, third spine considerably longest, 

 4 in head, longest ray 2; pectoral short and broad, 1^"^ in head; ven- 

 trals scarcely reaching vent, 2 in head; caudal moderate, slightly 

 lunate, the lobes rounded. 



Scales moderate, weakly ctenoid, covering entire head, body, and 

 bases of dorsal, caudal, and anal; maxillary densely scaled; base of 

 pectoral scaled. 



Color in alcohol, rusty silvery; head darker, somewhat purplish; 

 edges of scales on side darkish, the bases brassy; dorsal, anal, and 



