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921. EUMESOGRAMMUS,* Gill. 

 Eumesogrammus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 210 (prcecisus). 



Body comparatively short, the back somewhat arched ; mouth rather 

 large, the jaws with villiform teeth; teeth on vomer and palatines. 

 Scales small; lateral lines 3, without accessory branches; pectorals and 

 ventrals well developed. Dorsal moderately high, of spines only, free 

 or slightly connected with the rounded caudal; gill openings continued 

 forward below, the membranes narrowly joined to the isthmus; pyloric 

 caeca present. Northern seas, (ev, well; //e'tfog, middle; ypau^r), line; 

 the longest lateral line being the middle one.) 



2797. EOMESOGIUMMUS PRJECISUS (Kroyer). 



Head 4 ; depth nearly 6. D. XLIX ; A. 34 ; V. 3. Snout subconical ; cleft 

 of month slightly oblique ; vouierine and palatine teeth present ; 3 lateral 

 lines on each side, the median one continued to the base of the caudal ; 

 ventral fin | as long as the pectoral, which is much shorter than head ; 

 dorsal fin terminating just at root of caudal. An ovate, black, white- 

 edged spot between the sixth and tenth dorsal spines. Coasts of Green- 

 laud. (Giinther.) (prcecisus, exact.) 



Clinus prcecisus, KROYER, Naturh. Tidsskr., 1, 25, August, 1836, t Greenland. 

 Clinut unimaculatus, KEINHARDT, Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk., vn, 114, Feb., 1837, Greenland. 

 Stichceus unimaculatus, KEINHABDT, Dansk. Vidensk., 109, 1837; GUNTHER, Cat., 283,1861. 

 Eumesogrammus prcecisus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 774, 1883. 



* The 2 following species from the Okhotsk Sea seem to represent 2 new genera (Erno- 

 grammus and Ozorthe) closely related to Eumesogrammus: 



ERNOGRAMMUS ENNEAGRAMMUS (Kner). 

 Head 3J; depth 6f . D. XLI ; A. 33 or 34 ; P. 14 or 15. Eye 4 in head, as long as snout. 



iead naked ; dorsal ol nigh, slender spines ; caudal separate, rounded ; anal high ; pectoral 

 long, 1 in head; ventrals i as long as pectorals; scales very small, smooth ; lateral lines 

 each with short oblique branches, each ending in a wide pore; 1 lateral line along base of 

 dorsal from head to caudal, 1 along middle of side, 1 along base of anal to caudal, this fork- 

 ing at the vent and sending 2 parallel branches forward to the breast; brownish, 2 rows of 

 small dark spots along middle lateral line; dorsal and anal with dark spots and a broad 

 dark margin ; pectorals with 3 black cross bands ; a dark bar at base of caudal ; 3 black 

 bars from eye. Okhotsk Sea. Known from a specimen, 1| inches long, from Decastris 

 Bay. (Kner.) (Epce'a, nine; ypa/u./u.T/, line.) Ernogrammus, new "genus (ep^o?, branch), is 

 distinguished from Eumesogrammus by the branching lateral line. 



Stichceus enneagrammus, KNER, Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien 1868, 16, taf. VI, f. 19 Decastris 

 Bay. (No. 1401c Mus. Wien.) 



OZORTHE HEXAGRAMMA (Schlegel). 



Head 5J; depth 5^. D. XLIII; A. 24. Snout pointed; mouth little oblique ; the max- 

 illary reaching front of eye ; bands of fine teeth on vomer and palatines ; a few large canine- 

 like teeth in front; eye 5 in head ; dorsal spines all stiff, the middle ones longest; dorsal 

 joined to caudal by membrane; lateral lines 3, the upper partly interrupted, sending at 

 right angles upward and downward lines which join the middle line; third lateral line 

 along base of anal only. Scales small. Dorsal with large dark brown spots obliquely 

 placed ; 3 brown stripes across cheek; anal colored like dorsal; caudal pectoral and ven- 

 trals each with 3 dark cross bands. Northern coast of Japan to Okhotsk Sea. This de- 

 scription (after Kner) from a specimen from Decastris Bay (No. 5575, Mus. Wien.). This 

 differs somewhat from the type of the species and may be different, (e'f . six ; ypannrj, line.) 

 The new genus Ozorthe (oyos, branch; opflij, right angle) is distinguished by the form of 

 its lateral lines as above described. 

 Stichceus hexagramrnus, SCHLEGEL, Fauna Japonica, Pisces, 136. pi. 3, f. 1., 1850. Bay of 



Simabara, Japan. Head 4&; depth 6J. D.XL; A. 29. GUNTHER, Cat., in, 284, 1861; 



KNER, Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien 1868, 45. 



t These dates are thus given by Kroyer, as quoted by Dr. Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 1864, 210. We have been unable' to verify them. 



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