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and anal placed on it opposite to each other. Caudal small. Vertebrae 
few; no ribs. Intestinal canal short. East Indies. 
((. Pectoral' rayy etjually nleiider, none (if them apiiie-like; tail whort, of stout rinjjs, 
not tapering and flattened posteriorly Zallses. 1 
1. ZALISES Jordan and Snyder, ne^w genus 
Zaliseti Jordan and Snydeij, new genus (draconis). 
The genus contains those species of Pegan'uhb which have the tail 
short and not attenuate and compressed toward the tip, and in which 
the pectoral rays are all slender and simple, none of them spine-like. 
East Indies. [Cakr]^ surf; (T/;?, moth.) 
I. ZALISES UMITENGU Jordan and Snyder, new species. 
UMITENGU. 
(Plates 1,11.) 
J'ojdxn^^ dracoiih Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, j). 5, Poshu Kii (not of Linna'us). 
Head ;i| in length; width, posterior to pectorals, 3i. D. 5; A. 5; 
P. iU; V. 2. Vent midway between front of eye and base of caudal 
tin. Tail of 8 rings. Trunk gibbous, the median depressed part 
divided by three cross-ridges; obtitse tubercles at the meeting points 
of the lengthwise and cross ridges of the back; nape with two deep 
})its; first, second, fourth, and fifth tail rings each with a compressed 
spine directed backward; pectoral 3 in body, as long as from tip of 
snout to nuchal pits; fifth pectoral ray not enlarged; snout prolonged, 
longer than in any other species, its length from eye 5 in body, the 
part ))eforo the nK)utli more than twice as long as broad, with a finely 
serrated edge on the dilated blade on each side; distance from middle 
of shoulder girdle to tip of snout, 2f in total length (3i in P. draconis). 
Color brownish, finely marked with darker. The snout and the last 
two caudal rays black; pectoral with fine brown dots on the rays, the 
outer part of the fin paler. 
Seas of Japan, here described from a dried specimen, 75 millimeters 
long, from the province of Kii (Wakanoura), presented b}^ the Imperial 
Museum of Tokyo, 
Ty2)e. — No, 6518, Leland Stanford Junior University Museum. 
The species closely resembles 1*. dfuconls of the East Indies, but 
difi'ers from descriptions and figures in the longer and narrower snout, 
and rather longer tail. Other specimens supposed to be the same are 
in the collection from Boshu (near Misaki), and another from Kii. 
{^Uird^ sea; Tengu., a long-nosed god of a humorous nature, in Jap- 
anese mythology.) 
' The fifth pectoral ray is enlarged and spine-like in the genus Pegai^its (P. volitans 
Linn;eus). The tail is elongate, the posterior rings tiattened and compressed in the 
genus Farapegusux Dumeril, tyjie, J', mttcnix Bloch. 
