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teeth in several rows, the oixter larger; scales of body ctenoid, each 
with about 10 little teeth; a pair of large pores in posterior part of 
interorbital space; pectoral without silky rays. 
Color clear violet brown with darker net-like n.iarbling; throat dark 
brown; tirst dorsal with a black .spot with white below it, and a brown 
band forward and downward; second dorsal with about 5 oblique bands; 
anal with dark margin especially behind; pectoral colorless; ventral 
and caudal dusky with line points; no spot on base of caudal. 
Hay of Tokyo. (Hilgendorf.) Not seen by us. 
[inTa, seven; oiKiyvRa, spine.) 
21. ABOMA BREUNIGI ( Steindachner). 
Gdhiiix hreiiiii(j) Steindachner, lohth. Beitr. , VIII, 1879, p. 22, Hakodate. 
Head 1; depth of (with caudal); eye If in head; snout li; D. VIl-I, 
11; A. 10 or 11; P. 20 or 21; scales 60 to 6:^-15; snout li in head. 
Body slender, compressed; .scales .ctenoid; head naked; jaws sub- 
equal; maxillary reaching to opposite front of eye; teeth small, those 
of the outer row longest. Dorsal spines low, slender, the fourth about 
2 in head, not so high as body, a little lower than soft dorsal. Caudal 
a little shorter than head. Pectorals shorter than head, without silky 
rays; as long as venti'als. Reddish brown above, pale below, a dark 
.stripe from eye to side ot snout; dark brown close set spots forming 
narrow zigzag streaks on upper part of head and body; often a small 
dark spot at base of pectoral above; behind this dark cross streaks; 
b(jth dorsals and caudal translucent with dark spots and fine dots. 
Length 60 mm. Hakodate; not found by us. (Steindachner.) 
Named for Dr. Ferdinand Breunig, professor of natural history in 
the Imperial Gymnasium at Schotten. 
22. ABOMA UROTiENIA (Hilgendorf). 
(idh'ms urotivn'ut Hilgendokf, ."^itzher. Nat. Freumlf, Berlin, 1S7S, p. 1(1S, Tokyo; 
No. 10644, Mus. Berlin. 
Head 3t ; depth 5i ; D. VI or Vn-12 or 13 ; A. 1:^ or 18 ; .scales 
20 in cross series. Eye 4^ in head, scarcely less than snout; depth of 
head 2 in head, breadth 2f ; interorbital width equal to vertical diameter 
of eye; lower jaw projecting; teeth in several rows, the outer larger; 
rays of doi*sal not produced; profile of head very weakly convex; head 
scaleless; scales of body ctenoid, each with 7 to 9 teeth on the edge. 
Color clear brown, with irregular darker spots, those along lateral 
line mostly rhombic, a distinct spot at base of caudal; a horizontal 
streak before eye; a dark streak along caudal peduncle above and 
below ; caudal with a well-marked median cross band constantly 
present; a fainter band near the edge. Spinous dorsal with one. anal 
with two, distinct bands. 
Bay of Tokyo; known from small examples about 37 mm. in length. 
(Hilgendorf.) Not seen by us. 
[ovpa, tail; raivia, ribbon.) 
