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ing from behind e3^e, upward and forward, curving downward between 
nostril and eye, and joining the lateral line; another branch, having 
its origin posterior to the eye, coinciding with the latter, passing down- 
ward and disappearing on the throat; a branch passing over the snout 
just anterior to the nostrils; a line extending downward and backward 
from chin to a point near base of pectoral;" another, having its origin 
below and a little anterior to the latter, running l)ackward below 
lateral fold to base of caudal. 
Dorsal and anal pointed, the latter slightly falcate, the height a])out 
If in head. Caudal truncate, its length 1^ in head. Pectoral slightly 
rounded posteriorly, 2| in head, the num])er of rays 14. 
Color dark brown above, with faint, rounded, pale spots, sometimes 
confluent in vermiculations, around darker spots, pale spots, those on 
back a little smaller than those on sides, none of the spots white and 
none sharply deflned. A round jet-black spot, edged with pale above 
tip of pectoral, this well defined and larger than eye, not meeting its 
fellow across the back; a large black blotch on and below base of dorsal; 
dorsal and caudal largely dusky toward tip; pectoral and anal pale. 
Here described from a specimen about 180 mm. long, from Mororan, 
Hokkaido. Type No. 6525, Leland Stanford Junior University 
Museum. 
This species is ver}^ close to Spheroides vermicularis, but the body 
is stouter, the bony interorbital area narrower, and the spots are 
more distinctly rounded, when vermiculate surrounding darker spots 
of the ground color. It is extremely abundant in northern Japan. 
Our ver}^ many specimens, none more than 6 inches long, are from 
Otaru, Mororan, Hakodate, Aomori, Same-Minato, and Matsushima. 
{Borealis^ northern.) 
Measurements of SpheroUles horealis. 
Length in millimeters 
Depth expressed in hundredths of length . 
Depth ol' eandal peii uncle 
Lengtli of eiiiiilal peduncle 
Length <il head 
Width I if interorbital space 
Length of snout 
Diameter of orbit 
Distance from snout to dorsal fln 
Height of longest dorsal rays 
Height of longest anal rays .' 
Length of caudal fin 
Number of rays in dorsal fin 
Number of rays in anal fln 
Mororan, 
Hokkaido. 
Hak 
131 
odate, 
Hokkaido. 
151 
142 
142 
98 
113 
100 
54 
26 ,t 
25 
26 
27 
26 
26 
25 
28 
7 
7 
7i 
7 
V* 
8 
7 
8 
26 
• 25 
251 
24 
25i 
23i 
25 
24 
31 
31 
32 
32 
32i 
31 
32 
35 
9 
9^ 
9 
9 
9 
8 
7 
6* 
15 
14 
13 
14 
14 
13* 
13 
15 
6 
6 
6 
6i 
7 
6* 
7 
7* 
65 
64i 
65 
67 
67 
65* 
66 
69 
18i 
18i 
16i 
18 
17 
17 
17 
17* 
20 
18 
17* 
19 
17 
16i 
18 
17 
18 
19 
19 
•)•) 
19 
21 
19 
22 
13 
13 
13 
14 
13 
13 
13 
13 
11 
12 
11 
11 
12 
11 
12 
11 
i6. SPHEROIDES NIPHOBLES Jordan and Snyder, new species. 
Head 3^ in length; depth 8|; depth of caudal peduncle 3f in head; 
eye 5; snout 2i; interorbital space 3; dorsal rays 12; anal rays 10. 
