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bands on pectorals, dorsals, and caudal; in having a terminal band of 
whit(^ on the caudal, a sharper snout, and much smaller scales. 
It is very abundant about the rocky headlands of Japan, especially 
about Misaki. Our specimens are from Misaki. Nagasaki, Enoshima, 
Tsushima, and Hakodate. 
(J/^', red; mk!^ point; name of a very tine collecting ground on which 
the investigation station of the Imperial ITniversity of Tokyo is situ- 
ated.) 
17. PTEROGOBIUS Gill. 
T'h'r<i(/()J)iKs (iuAj, Proc. Ac. Nut. Sci. Phila., l<S(i:^, j). 266 {i-iryo). 
Body moderately elongate, somewhat compressed, covered with very 
small cycloid or finely ctenoid scal(\s; iiead not depressed, I'oundcd in 
profile, broad betw(»en the eyes, the cheeks with a patch of small scales 
above or wholl}- naked; mouth moderate, terminal, ol)li(|ue, the lower 
jaw more or less prominent; tongue rounded, scarcely or not at all 
notched at tip; teeth moderate, the outer enlarged; gill openings 
moderate, separated by a rather broad isthmus. No l)arbels. First 
dorsal of about <S slender spines, sometimes produced in the male; 
soft dorsal and anal very long, of "iO to 30 very slender, close-set rays; 
caudal fin moderate; pectoral fin of slender rays, tiie upper silk-like, 
with free tips. Ventrals well developed, not adnate to the 1)elly. 
Gobies of rather large size and striking coloration, the most brilliant 
members of the family, found about the rocks in clear water on the 
shores of Japan and Korea. 
(TTTf/joK, fin; (roh/i/s^ from the long fins.) 
((. Body without vertical bands; its color stri))es of orange and dark blue running 
horizontally; tins washed witli orange and dark blue; I*. VIII-28; A. 27; scales 
133 rirffo. 33 
(Id. Body \\ith vertical bands, light or dark, and no horizontal stripes. 
/'. Body with black cross-bands on a background of clear brown. 
c. Eye with a dark cross-band; bands .on body sharply defined and edged 
with paler. Dorsal rays YIII-22; scales 78. 
(1. C-audal fin with a 1)lack cross-band at its base; dark rings on body bor- 
dered with yellow flapoides. 34. 
(hi. Caudal fin without dark cross-band at base; dark rings on body edged 
with pale daimio. 35. 
cr. Eye without dark cross-band; bands on body broad, diffuse, not edged 
with pale. Dorsal VIII-26; scales 96 zacalles. 36. 
hh. Body with very faint, pale cross-bands on a ground color of light olive. Dor- 
sal VIII-20; scales 66 zonole/ucua. 37. 
33. PTEROGOBIUS VIRGO (Schlegel). 
(luhina rir(/o Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1847, p. 143, pi. lxxiv, fig. 4, 
Nagasaki. — GtJXTHER, Cat. Fish., Ill, 1861, p. 79; after iSchlegel. 
Head -t in length; depth 6i; depth of caudal peduncle 10; eye (5 in 
head; snout 2|; maxillary 2|; D. Vni-'28; A. 27; P. 22; scales in 
lateral series 133, in transverse series -tl. 
