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dorsal. Anal inserted below base of second dorsal ray ; when depressed 
it extends a little farther posteriorly than does the dorsal. Dorsals 
and anal covered with thick skin, making the determination of the 
number of rays difficult. Caudal rounded. Pectoral similar in shape, 
extending to a vertical midway ])etween tip of ventrals and the anal 
opening; of 24: or 25 rays, the upper 6 of which are detached and sim- 
ple. Ventrals rays I, 5; the tins united; the disk elevated anteriorly; 
free from body posteriorly. 
Head and anterior parts of Ijody naked; small, thin, embedded scales 
on posterior parts, the scales growing forward on a V-shaped area 
almost to base of pectoral. Lateral line indicated anterior!}' by a 
series of 9 or 10 groups of little pores, 3 or 1 pores arranged vertically 
in each group. 
Color blue black; a broad, white band passing over l)ack part of 
head and anterior region of body, including basal third of pectoral fin; 
another narrower and shorter band between the dorsals, encroaching 
Fig. 2fi.— Artrabe lactisei.t.a. 
on base of soft dorsal; a third passing over the ventral surface at 
insertion of anal, its ends in the central region of the bod}'^ being near 
those of the dorsal band just mentioned; several large and small white 
spots on body and on the unpaired fins posterior to the bands; throat 
white; cheeks and chin with white specks; pectorals spotted with white 
near the tips; ventral disk bordered with white. 
The general form of the l)ody and the peculiarly wrinkled and folded 
skin of the head reminds one of the blind goliy of Point Loma, Tyjjldo- 
gobius calif orniensis. 
Type No. filGO, Leland Stanford Junior University Museum. 
The single known specimen was taken in August, 1900, at the rock 
pools near Misaki, in Sagami. 
{Lac, luctls, milk; sella, saddle.) 
28. CLARIGER Jordan and Snyder, new genus. 
Clarlger Jordan and Snyder, new genuH {co.vnurus) . 
This genus has the form and general appearance of L^iciogohiiis, 
difi'ering in the presence of a short spinous dor.sal of three slender 
