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VOL. 41. 



Description of specimens from Tsuruga, Akune in Satsuma, Naga- 

 saki, and Tokyo; ranging from very young to 30 cm. in body length, 

 a specimen 15.5 cm. long from Tokyo, taken as typical. 



Head 3| in length to last vertebra; depth 2|; eye 4 (3^-5) in head; 

 snout 3; maxillary 3J; interorbital space 2^ to 2f ; D. XV, 13; A. 

 Ill, 12; scales in lateral line 50 to 56; in transverse series between 

 insertion of dorsal and anal 9/18. 



Snout not greatly rounded; premaxillaries at tip not vertical but 

 protruding, their upper edge nearly on level of nostrils. Jaws equal, 

 maxillary ending below posterior nostril or before eyes, mouth strongly 

 oblique. Prefrontals somewhat prominent. Distance of preopercular 

 margin from posterior border of eye contained 1^ in eye. Preopercle 

 finely serrated on upright limb, only partially on horizontal. Cheek 



Fig. 12.— GmELLA punctata. 



longer than deep, measured from eye to lower margin of preopercle 

 and from end of maxillary to vertical margin of preopercle. Gill- 

 rakers 26 to 30 on lower limb of first arch. A single series of tri- 

 cuspid teeth in both jaws backed by a band of much smaller ones. 



Dorsal spines increasing in length to last, which is 2 in head. 

 Dorsal rays slightly longer. Third anal spine longer than second, and 

 contained thrice in head. Soft dorsal and anal fin straight, posterior 

 angles rather pointed. Caudal emarginate in adults, truncate in 

 young, lobes not rounded. Pectorals slightly shorter than head, tips 

 rounded. Ventrals reaching anus. If in head. 



Scales roughly ctenoid, smooth to touch on head. Present on 

 proximal half of pectoral, two-thirds of dorsal and anal, and in two 

 or three small rows along bases of dorsal and anal fins. Head scaled 

 to between eyes, on cheeks and suborbitals, minutely on upper limb 

 of preopercle, not on lower, and on upper half of opercle. No scales 

 on subopercle or lower half of opercle, and only occasional scales on 

 interopercle. Snout and jaws naked. 



