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on lower side of pectoral and around vent; peritoneum black; inside 
of mouth anteriorly black, with round j^ellowish spots. 
Coasts of southern Japan, rather common; our specimens from Wak- 
anoura and Nagasaki. This species is evidently identical with Vahl's 
original figure as copied b}^ Schneider. 
{Setige)\ bristle-bearing.) 
Measurements of Lophiomus setigerus. 
Locality. 
Length" in millimeters without caudal 
Dorsal rays 
Caudal ray 
Anal rays 
Pectoral rays 
Ventral rays 
Head in hundredth of length without caudal 
Width of head 
Width of body close to gill opening 
Depth of caudal peduncle 
Length of tail 
Snout • 
Length of maxillary 
Intermaxillary space 
Diameter of eye 
Interorbital space 
Snout to tip of humeral spine 
Distance between tips of humeral spine 
Snout to first dorsal spine 
Height of first dorsal spine 
Snout to second dorsal spine 
Height of second dorsal spine 
Snout to third dorsal spine 
Height of third dorsal spine 
Snout to fourth dorsal spine 
Height of fourth dorsal spine 
Snout to dorsal fin 
Length of base of dorsal fin 
Height of dorsal ray 
Length of caudal ray 
Height of anal fin 
Length of pectoral fin 
Length of ventral fin 
Ventral fin to vent 
Vent to anal fin 
Nagasaki. 
Nagasaki. 
238 
175 
IV-II, 9 
IV-II, 9 
8 
8 
7 
7 
23 
22 
5 
5 
65 
57 
60 
66 
22 
27 
5 
5 
35 
35 
14 
17 
20 
22i 
8 
8 
7 
7 
IH 
12 
45 
47 
40 
41 
4 
5 
27 
26 
6 
7 
15 
16 
24 
26 
21i 
23 
38 
37 
21 
20 
60 
58 
30 
25 
20 
20 
25 
25 
17 
18 
20 
23 
14 
14 
43 
41 
6 
5i 
2. LOPHIOMUS LITULON Jordan, new species. 
Lophius setigerus IsniKAW'A, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 36; Boshu (not of Vahl). 
Lophiomus setigerus Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1900, 
p. 380; Tokyo. 
Head of the type specimen, measured to gill opening, 2 in length to 
base of caudal; its width equal to its length; snout, 6f in head; eye, 2^ 
in snout; length of maxillary, 5 in head; space between maxillaries, 
2i in maxillary; interorbital space, 8 in length of bod}'^; snout to tip 
of humeral spine, 2i; distance between tips of opposing humeral 
spines, 2f ; D. IV-11 9; A. 8; C. 8; P. 23; V. 5; width of body close 
to gill opening, 5i, being a little more than its depth; length of tail, 3; 
depth of caudal peduncle, 2 in snout; base of dorsal fin, 3; its height, 
6|; base of anal fin, 4^, height, 4|; caudal fin, 4; pectoral fin, 4^; 
ventral tin, 6i. 
First dorsal spine lower than the second, its height being equal to 
snout, with rather stout, simple tentacle. Second dorsal spine thinly 
