556 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.41. 



p. 477 (Kagoshima). — Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, 



1901, p. 751 (Yokohama); (not of Richardson). 

 Scolopsis inermis Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 357 (after 



Bleeker).— Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vol. 8, 1876, p. 4, pi. 341, fig. 5 (Sangir; 



Nagasaki); Ned. Tijd. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873, p. 352.— Steindachner, Beitr. 



Fische Japan's II, Denkschr. kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 1883, p. 14 (Kago- 



Bhima).— Nystrom, K. Svenska. Vet. Akad., vol. 13, Afd. 4, 1887, No. 4, 



p. 13 (Nagasaki). 

 Eeterognathodon guliminda Ishikawa, Prel. Cat. Tokyo Imp. Mus., 1897, p. 54 



(Kagoshima) (not of Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Eeterognathodon doderleini Ishikawa, Prel. Cat. Tokyo Imp. Mus., vol. 1, 1897, 



p. 10, pi. 4 (Kagoshima, same specimen aa above). 



Habitat. — Coasts of southern Japan. 



Description of a specimen 153 mm. in body length from Nagasaki. 



Head 3 in body; depth 2§; eye 3| in head; interorbital space 4; 

 snout 3J; maxillary 2f ; D. X, 9; A. Ill, 7; scales m lateral line 36; 

 iu transverse series between insertion of dorsal and insertion of anal 

 3^/10; gill-rakers 6 + 5; branchiostegals 6, 



Dorsal profile slightly more arched than ventral. Snout ponical; 

 interorbital space slightly rounded, without raised edge of skin over 

 eyes, broadening forward from center of pupU; edge of orbit not 

 prominent anteriorly; preorbitals flat; jaws equal, maxillary ending 

 under anterior margin of eye. Margin of second suborbital bone with 

 four or five serrations posteriorly, the upper largest, somewhat spine- 

 like, contained four or five times in pupil. Posterior suborbitals 

 finely serrated on lower edges, the retrorse spine present in other spe- 

 cies rudimentary or almost lacking. Preopercle finely and closely 

 serrate. Opercle with a small blunt spine. Teeth in jaws small, 

 bristlelike, largest in outer row, with a band of smaller villiform 

 teeth behind. Gill-rakers short, blunt, with an accessory one on the 

 ceratohyal. 



Fourth dorsal spine highest, 2| in head; last spine 3 in head, nearly 

 equal to the following ray. Longest dorsal ray 2 J in head. Second 

 and third anal spines equal, 2f in head, anal rays slightly longer, of 

 nearly same length throughout. Soft dorsal and anal outlines not 

 pointed, but truncate or slightly rounded. Ventrals If in head, 

 their spines three-fourths of the ray length. Caudal forked. If in 

 head. 



Scales slightly ctenoid, not present on interorbital region, snout, 

 suborbitals, jaws, or lower limb of preopercular margin. Those on 

 cheek in four rows, on opercle in six. 



Color of entire fish bright light red in life, with broad crossbands of 

 deeper red. Alcoholic specimens clear yellow, slightly tinged mth 

 bronze above. Fins all clear and colorless save for a hmt of darker 

 spots on membrane of spinous dorsal. Peritoneum and gill cavity 

 lining silvery. 



