NO. 1462. FISHES FROM SOUTHERN JAPAN— JORDAN AND STARKS. 701 



of the latter genus, which is a species of the Mediterranean. We 

 have therefore revived the name Enneajptenjgiim^ based on a species 

 of the Red Sea. 



CRISTICEPS FLAMMEUS Jordan and Starks, new species. 



Head, -i^^ in length to caudal base; depth, 4^. Eye, -if in head; 

 interorbital space, 6i; snout, 4; niaxillar}^, 2. Dorsal HI, XXVI, 5; 

 anal II, 20. Scales, about 87. 



Mouth rather oblique; the jaws equal. Maxillary extending slightly 

 past posterior orbital margin. Teeth rather blunt; in a single row on 

 sides of mandible, in a small patch in front, and in a band on prcmax- 

 illary. Teeth on vomer in a crescent-shaped patch continuous with 

 the palatine patches. Interor})ital space narrow and appearing convex, 

 but the bone is concave or channeled along its middle. Short, flat, 



Fig. 8. — CRISTICEPS FLAMMEUS. 



digitate flaps present above eyes; the divisions not extending to base 

 of flaps and subdivided into fine f ringers. The hooked process on 

 shoulder girdle prominent. 



First two dorsal spines equal in length and equal to distance from 

 middle of eye to opercular flap; the third spine half as long and 

 attached to extreme base of first spine of second portion of dorsal. 

 Spines of second portion of dorsal growing gradually longer posteri- 

 orly; the last is shorter than soft rays, its length equal to combined 

 length of snout and eye. Tips of last dorsal rays reaching to opposite 

 base of caudal; the last ray attached to caudal peduncle by membrane. 

 Anal spines shorter than rays, the second 3f in head. Membrane of 

 anal deeply incised; the last raj^s not reaching so far back as those of 

 dorsal. Pectoral broadly rounded. Ventrals 3 rayed, the middle ray 

 the longest, the inner ray half the length of the outer. Ventrals 

 reaching two-thirds of distance from their base to front of anal. 

 Caudal rounded. 



Color in spirits everywhere light grajash without markings or shad- 

 ing. When received in formalin it was a bright orange. This species 



