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Type, No. 6431 on the Stanford Museum register. It 

 was taken in the Bay of Aomori, where the species is 

 locally known as Sachi.^ 



No specimens were taken by us in Japan, but other dried 

 specimens were seen, the expanded fins rendering it one of 

 the local curiosities. One of these, 385 millimeters long, 

 in the Imperial Museum of Japan, numbered 817, from 

 Hokkaido, agrees closely with the type specimen, (d. 

 VIII-13; A. 15; p. 16; scales 40.) Another from Hok- 

 kaido differs slightly in markings of the fins. In the 

 museum of Hakodate is a specimen from Kayabe, called by 

 the local name of "Tokuhira," meaning, perhaps, "melting 

 flake." There is also another specimen in the Museum of 

 Aomori from Aomori Bay. 



1 Blepsias cirrJwsus is called Sachiko, that is child of the Sachi. Sachi in Japanese 

 means good fortune. 



