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snout. A ridge around anterior margin of eye runs backwards to beneath 

 base of third dorsal spine; it has a depression above middle of eye and an- 

 other above posterior part of eye. Superior margin of eye with a ridge which 

 is scarcely continuous with that of anterior margin. From behind eye, about 

 on a level with superior margin of pupil, a broken horizontal ridge extends 

 backwards above gill-opening nearly to tip of opercular flap. Suborbital 

 stay with a sharp, smooth ridge extending back and joining at right angles 

 a ridge that follows around margin of preopercle. From the latter and 

 below its junction with suborbital ridge the preopercle sends a ridge back- 

 wards which ends in a sharp spine. Preorbital with a short spine anteriorly 

 projecting transversely to maxillary; a long sharp spine follows upper contour 

 of maxillary and is as long as half the diameter of eye. Gill-rakers short, 

 blunt, uneven; about 4 + 8 in number. 



Entire head, a space on back below dorsal, breast, and a space behind 

 base of pectoral, naked. Sides of body covered with small granulations 

 which are somewhat thickened towards their posterior margins but are not 

 spiniferous. 



Dorsal without a notch between the spinous and rayed portions. The first 

 spine not longer than eye (its tip broken), its base above middle of eye. The 

 second spine over twice as long as the first; the fifth equal to distance from 

 eye to tip of opercular flap. The middle rays of soft dorsal longest; their 

 length equal to the distance from tip of snout to preopercular ridge; the pos- 

 terior margin of the fin straight, forming an angle slightly less than a right 

 angle with the superior margin. The last ray is adnate to the caudal peduncle 

 for its whole length, the membrane not quite reaching to base of caudal. 



The anal spines are graduated; the first scarcely as long as diameter of 

 eye, the third twice the length of the first. When the fin is depressed the 

 tips of the middle rays reach the base of the caudal. The last ray is adnate 

 to the caudal peduncle for about half its length. When ventral fins are 

 depressed the longest ray reaches to the base of the first anal spine, while 

 the tip of the ventral spine falls short of it a distance equal to the diameter of 

 the eye. Pectoral angulated, the sixth and seventh rays longest, reaching to 

 above the first anal ray. Caudal fin narrow and elongate, with the posterior 

 margin rounded; its length i>( in head. 



Color (from a specimen long in spirits) slaty white with brownish markings. 

 Membrane of spinous dorsal clouded with brownish; some of the spines with 

 a small, dark spot in front of them. All of the other fins with vermiculated 

 markings transversely across the rays. A large dark brown spot behind 

 upper part of gill-opening and a smaller one on lateral line below base of last 

 dorsal spines. Eye with traces of lines radiating from the center. 



The type is a single specimen (No. 6433 on the Stanford 

 Museum Register) in good condition, 217 mm. long, pre- 

 sented to Stanford University by Professor Mitsukuri of 

 the Imperial University of Tokyo. It is said to be from 

 Kagoshima in Kiusiu, and to bear the local name of 

 Yama-no-kami, or Mountain Goddess, in local mj^thology 

 a woman with wings, capable of starting a storm. 



