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isthmus about equal to length of maxillary. Inner edge of shoulder 
girdle projecting as a sharp ridge, without papilhe or other dermal 
moditioations. Gill-rakers on tirst arch, 2+7 or 8: short and pointed. 
A)iterior nostril with a high rim. No barbels on jaw. 
Head naked. Bod_y with large, finely ctenoid scales; the region 
immediately anterior to pectorals, the breast in front of ventrals, and 
a narrow space extending backward nearly to vent naked. 
Dorsal tins separate from each other and from the caudal; second 
spine highest; the others successively shorter; when depressed, just 
reached origin of soft dorsal. Dorsal rays, when depressed, falling- 
far short of base of caudal. Anal inserted directly below base of third 
dorsal ray; the rays somewhat longer posteriorly, when depressed 
ex-tending as far back as the dorsal. Pectorals pointed; their tips 
reaching a vertical through insertion of soft dorsal; the upper rays 
not peculiar. Ventrals long; not extending so far posteriorly as 
pectorals; free from body except at base. 
A.B(J>I.\ TSUSHI.M.K. 
Color in tilcohol light-brownish, everywhere with small, indistinct 
darker .spots and reticulations; sides with 6 or 7 poorly defined lateral 
spots, the last and most conspicuous one at tiase of caudal tin. 
Dorsals with markings of light l)rown, arranged in longitudinal rows 
on the membranes; similar marks assembled in wav^y lines on the rays 
of upper three-fourths of caudal; the lower part of tin without spots. 
Other tins somewhat dusky. 
Specimens smaller than the type have the dark marking a little more 
distinct. 
Known only from specimens collected at Sasiuui. on the island of 
Tsushima. Japan, by P. L. Jouy. 
2o. ABOMA HEPTACANTHA (Hilgendorf). 
Gohuii^heptacanthus Hilgendorf, Sitzber. Natur. Frennde, LS78, p. 110, Tokyo; No. 
10856, Mus. Berlin. 
Head 4i (with caudal); depth 6i; D. VII-12; A. 12; scales in 12 
rows between dorsal and anal. Eye equal to snout and to interorbital 
width, 4 in head. Profile of head nearly straight; lower jaw project- 
ing; mouth large, the maxillary reaching posterior border of eye; 
