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7. BEMBROPS CAUDIMACULA Steindachner. 
Bembrops caudimacula Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., V, 1876, p. 163; Nagasaki. 
Head 2f; D. Vl-ltt; A. 16; V. I, 5; P. 23; scales 42; breadth of 
head 2| in its length; snout 3|; eye 4^; lower jaw projecting; inter- 
orbital very narrow, its width 6 in eye; mouth long, 2f in head; 
maxillary with a rather long flap or lilament at its tip, which is just 
before anterior margin of e3'e; tongue spoon-shaped; snout scaleless; 
subopercle forming a compressed spine ending in a sharp point. 
Spinous dorsal slender, its height a little less than 3 in head; longest 
soft ray 2f in head; base of second dorsal 3 in head, a little shorter 
than anal; ventrals inserted well before pectorals and a little shorter 
than the latter, which are not quite half head; caudal weakly convex; 
lateral line complete, running low. 
Color yellowish brown above, paler below; scales edged with darker; 
sides with difluse brownish shades along lateral line; membranes of 
first dorsal black; caudal clear brownish yellow spotted with brown, 
an oval blackish spot just behind its base in the upper half, reaching 
to its posterior margin (Steindachner), 
Japan. Known from one specimen 5^^ inches long from Nagasaki. 
{Cauda, tail; macula, spot.) 
4. PTEROPSARON Jordan and Snyder, new genus. 
Pteropsaron Jordan and Snyder, new genus {cvohins). 
Body subcylindrical, depressed anteriorh% covered with large cycloid 
scales; lateral line continuous; head depressed, flattened anteriorly, 
the snout produced, broadly spatulate; mouth large, the jaws subequal; 
maxillar}^ without barbel; teeth small, on jaws, the vomer and pala- 
tines smooth; eves very large, hxrgel^^ vertical in range, separated by 
a very narrow ridge; suborbital 'ver}^ narrow; cheeks and opercles 
scaly; preopercle rounded, entire, but with mucous tubes near its 
edge; opercle with a partly concealed spine before its membranous 
tip; gill rakers obsolete; gill membranes separate, free from the 
isthmus. Dorsal fins separate, the first short, but sometimes greatly 
elevated; second similar to anal; caudal convex; ventrals I, 5, well 
separated, a rhombic area before them, inserted before pectorals, the 
inner rays longest, pectorals normal. Lateral line simple median. 
This genus is allied to Bchihroj)^, from which it differs in the absence 
of a fleshy flap on the maxillary. 
{TTTspov^ wing; if^apov. a little fish in modern Greek.) 
(I. Dorsal spines 6; anal rays 27, the first dorsal and anal greatly elevated evolans, 8. 
aa. Dorsal spines 4; anal rays 22, the first dorsal and anal low verecundum, 9. 
