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Alcoholic specimens have the throat, breast, and outer or anterior 

 surface of pectorals, except the tips, dead white; inner surface of 

 pectorals dusky, the color not extending over the lower attached 

 rays, which are white; lower half of fin dense black with elongate, 

 white spots; rays white near tip of fin. Caudal with two indistinct, 

 vertical, dusky bands. 



Type. — Cat. No. 68241, U.S.N.M., a specimen measuring 98 mm. 

 in length, from Kagoshima. Two other specimens, one of which is 

 deposited in the Stanford University collection, cotype, No. 21427, 

 are from the same locality and do not differ from the type. 



The species is named for Dr. K. Kishinouye. 



Family GOBIID,E. 



CLARIGER EXILIS, new species. 



This species differs from Clariger eosmurus in having the body 

 more extensively scaled, the scales extending forward over an angular 

 region to or beyond the base of spinous dorsal. The body is more 

 slender and the dark lateral stripe is broader, extending downward 

 and almost covering the sides of the body. 



Head 4 in length to base of caudal; depth 8; depth caudal pedun- 

 cle 8.5; eye 6 in head; snout 3.6; interorbital space 5.5; D. Ill, 11; 

 A. 11; P. 18. 



The head is broad, much wider than the body and considerably 

 depressed; snout short, the eyes located far forward and directed 

 obliquely upward; interorbital space flat; mouth broad, the cleft 

 extending backward to a point beneath pupil; lower jaw projecting 

 somewhat; tongue broad and deeply notched anteriorly. Teeth in 

 narrow bands on the jaws; a well defined outer and inner row of 

 enlarged teeth on the upper jaw; an inner row of slightly enlarged 

 teeth on the lower jaw, the teeth increasing in size posteriorly, the 

 last on each side separated from- the others and considerably enlarged. 

 Vomer and palatines naked. Gill clefts restricted to the sides, the 

 openings somewhat broader than the base of pectorals. The skin 

 of the head is full and wrinkled about the snout and chin; a row of 

 four or five fleshy barbels below eye; a pair of broad, short flaps at 

 the symphysis. 



Head and greater part of body naked; caudal peduncle com- 

 pletely scaled except on the upper and lower edges, the scaled area 

 extending forward in an irregular patch, the point of which reaches to 

 or beyond a vertical through the spinous dorsal. Spinous dorsal 

 shflrt and low, the first spine inserted about midway between occiput 

 and origin of soft dorsal; the first two spines closely apposed; the 

 entire fin very frail. Bases of soft dorsal and anal of about equal 

 length, the membranes rather thin and the rays frail; no membrane 



