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the third and fourth spines highest, the first about one-half as long as 
the second, rays about 1| in head, anal rays about 2| in head. Pec- 
toral reaching to insertion of anal, its posterior edge acutely rounded. 
Ventral about If in head. Caudal bluntly rounded; cheeks and 
opercle with scales; bases of pectoral and caudal scaled. 
Golden red. with 5 broad orange-yellow bands on body; head yel- 
low and red; fins ^^ellow: posterior part of dorsal with about 3 nar- 
row, oblique, purple bands; caudal with 5 vertical bands (Doderlein.) 
About Tokyo, in rather deep water, taken in the winter. Not seen 
by us. 
{Aurantiacus. orange-colored. ) 
Family II. LEPTOSCOPID.E. 
As defined by Boulenger this family differs from Nototheniida^ in 
having the hj^percoracoid pierced by a foramen. From the Perco- 
phidfB it differs in the absence of subocular lamina. The skeleton 
of Ptet'ojmii'o)! ^ has not been examined, but it is doubtless an ally of 
Bemhrops. According to Boulenger the (Mlionymida? are also related 
to the Leptoscopidte. 
<(. Body with large, scarcely ctenoid scales; dorsal tins separate: gill membranes 
nearly separate, free from isthmus. 
h. Maxillary with a fleshy flap at its tip; preopercle with two small spines at its 
angle; opercle with two spines Bembrops, 3. 
hh. Maxillary without flap; preopercle entire; opercle with one distinct spine. 
Pteropsaron, 4. 
8. BEMBROPS Steindachner. 
Bcmbrops Steixdachxek, Sitzgber. Wien, LXXIV, I, p. 211 (Ichth. Beitr., V, 
1876, p. 163, {eaudimacula). 
Hi/psicometes Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 1880, p. 347 (gohioides). 
Bathypercis^ Alcock, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, LXII, 1893, pp. 2, 177 
{plati/rhynchns). ^ 
Head strongly depressed, the snout spatulate. Mouth long, subhor- 
izontal. Teeth in jaws and on vomer and palatines; maxillary with a 
fleshy flap or barbel at tip. Eyes very large, half lateral. Opercle 
with two spines; angle of preopercle with two small spines, at least 
in Japanese species; preorbital entire; gill opening ver}- long, with 7 
branch iostegals; Pseudobranchise present. Ventrals jugular. Dorsal 
fins 2, well separated. Belly flattened, back convex. Scales rather 
large, finely ctenoid. 
Small fishes inhabiting depths in Asia and America. 
^The skeleton of Pteropsaron evolans has, since writing this, been examined by Mr. 
Starks and the writer. It has the hypercoracoid with the foramen on its very lower 
edge, but with a ring of bone around it exactly as in Parapercis. It should l)e placed 
-with prol)al)ly Bemhrops, also in the same family with Ncopercis and Parapercis. 
^According to Dr. Alcock. Bathyj/ercis p>Iatjfrhi/nchus of the Indian Ocean is ident- 
ical with Hysicometes gohioides of the Atlantic, and both belong to the genus Bembrops. 
Hypsicometes gohioides is figured as having the preopercle entire. 
