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Province, Japan, by Professor Kakichi Mitsukuri. One of 

 these specimens is in the Imperial University of Tokyo, 

 the other was presented by Professor Mitsukuri to Stanford 

 University, where it is registered as Type, No. 6432. 



The specimen in the Imperial Museum has, according to 

 our notes, a conspicuous barbel at the tip of the maxillary. 

 No trace of such a barbel is to be found on the type. 



Draciscus (agonid^), gen. nov. 



Closely allied to Podothecus, from which it differs in the 

 extraordinary size of its soft dorsal and anal fins. Type 

 Draciscus sac/tz irom northern Japan. 



Draciscus sachi, sp. nov. 



Plate XIX. 



Head 3I in length; depth yi; snout 2 in head; eye 4|; d. vin— 14; a. 16; 

 p. 15; spines in lateral line 44. 



Body formed about as is usual in Podothecus; caudal peduncle long and 

 slender, contained about 4 times in the length. Snout long and pointed; 

 two spines on tip of snout above; two small, closely apposed spines behind 

 middle of snout, at the end of its second third; ridge of mouth with a small 

 double spine at its extremity; a stout spine above eye. Bones of sides of 

 head with granular, radiating ridges. Tip of upper jaw and angles of mouth 

 with clusters of barbels; their length equal to more than one-half the diam- 

 eter of eye. Sides of body with 4 longitudinal rows of spinous plates, the 

 spines stout, hooked; the upper row begins at nape and extends to base of 

 second dorsal; the other 3 rows run from head to base of caudal. Plates 

 on breast without spines. 



First dorsal rather high; its first spine highest, contained about 2-?- times in 

 head. Soft dorsal inordinately high; its middle rays longest, i\ in length. 

 Anal still larger, a little higher and beginning farther forward, the highest 

 rays behind the middle; its height about 2| in length; pectorals rather long, 

 4f in body; some of the lower rays produced and with free tips. Ventrals 

 short, 3f in head. 



Color brownish, with some dark blotches on back. Vertical fins dusky, 

 becoming black on distal portion, each fin with irregular rows of round, white 

 spots in the dark marginal areas. Pectorals pale, with a dusky blotch at 

 base. Ventrals pale. 



Type, a single dried specimen 240 millimeters long, pre- 

 sented to the Museum of Stanford University by Mr. Sotaro 

 Saito, Director of the Museum of Aomori, Japan. It is 



