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following the soft dorsal, the first more remote from the second than 

 that is from the third and closely apposed to the soft dorsal. Anal 

 inserted below soft dorsal, its rays somewhat shorter than those of 

 the dorsal; followed by three finlets like those above. Caudal deeply 

 forked, the upper lobe somewhat the longer, 1.5 in the head. Pec- 

 toral two in head. Ventrals absent, the ends of the small pelvic 

 bones almost touching the surface on the median line beneath the 

 bases of the pectorals. Vertebra? 31; caeca 7. 



Color in the preservative pale silvery, darker above especially on 

 the opercles, upper margin of eye, interorbital space, tip of snout, 

 lips, area beneath the maxillary and gill cavity. Spinous dorsal with 

 a black spot between first and third spines; edge of fin black; pos- 

 terior part of caudal dusky. 



Type.— Cat. No. 68228, U.S.N.M., a specimen from the market at 

 Kagoshima, measuring 250 mm. in length. Cotype No. 21419, 

 Stanford University collection. 



Other specimens are similar to the type, not showing any marked 

 amount of variation. 



Family PEMPHERIDyE. 



CATALUFA, new genus. 



This genus is distinguished from others of the family by the small, 

 closely apposed, strongly ctenoid scales. It includes C. umbra, new 

 species, which may stand as the type, and C. compressus of the Aus- 

 tralian region. 



CATALUFA UMBRA, new species. 



Head 3.5 in length to base of caudal; depth 2.2; depth caudal 

 peduncle 3.2 in head; eye 2.2; snout 6.5; maxillary 2; interorbital 

 space 3.3; D. V, 12; A. Ill, 33; scales in lateral line 72. 



Eye very large, circular; interorbital space convex; snout blunt 

 and rounded; lower jaw rather sharp at its tip and projecting; max- 

 illary extending to point below center of pupil. Edge of preopercle 

 covered with scales except on lower portion where it is denticulate, 

 the angle being armed with an especially strong spine which projects 

 downward and backward; head elsewhere completely scaled except 

 on tip of snout and lips. Minute, brush-like teeth on jaws, vomer, 

 and palatines. Gillrakers somewhat slender and longer than the 

 fringes behind them; 8-21 on the first arch. Pseudobranchias well 

 developed. Scales of body small, close set, rather heavy and strongly 

 ctenoid ; extending for a considerable distance out on the base of the 

 caudal and forming a high sheath along base of anal where they are 

 extremely minute; seventy-two series in a lateral line counting to 

 base of caudal from where the pores extend to near the end of tail; 



