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third dorsal. Probably red in life, witli five brown cross bars on the back and the dorsal 

 fin, the three anterior ones descending a little below the lateral line. Fins immaculate. 

 Pharynx uncoloured. 



Although no specimens of this species have been obtained by the Challenger Expedition, 

 I enumerate it here along with the other Japanese species of this genus. The two speci- 

 mens, which have been quite recently discovered, are 9 inches long, and from the south- 

 east coast of Niphon. 



Sebastes inacrochir, n. sp. (PL XXVII). 



D. 14/-J-, A. f, P. 17/5, L. lat. ca. 45. The height of the body is contained thrice 

 and one-fourth in the total length (without caudal), the length of the head two and 

 a half times. Scales rather regularly arranged. Eye very large, one-third of the length of 

 the head, much longer than the snout. Mouth wide, the maxillary extending to behind 

 the middle of the eye. The laands of intermaxillary teeth are of moderate breadth, but 

 those of the vomer, palatines, and mandible are very narrow. Interorbital space flattish, 

 scaleless, narrow, its width being only two-fifths of the orljit. Occipital region flat, with 

 some rudimentary scales. A series of spines runs along each side of the forehead and 

 occiput ; it consists of a spine in front of the orbit, three above it, and two on eacli side 

 of the occiput. Infraorbital ridge with strong spines. Prseopercidum with five pointed 

 spines on the margin. Each ramus of the mandible with three large muciferous apertures. 

 Dorsal spines rather feeble ; the third to the sixth are the longest, two-fifths of the length 

 of the head. Anal spines stronger, but shorter than the longest of the dorsal. Caudal 

 truncated. The pectoral fin is extremely broad, the five or six lower rays being elongated 

 beyond the extremity of those next above them; their extremities are somewhat 

 thickened, and they, like the similar outer ventral rays, serve as an organ of locomotion. 

 The pectoral rays extend to, the ventral rays beyond, the vent. The latter are as long as 

 the head without snout. 



Red, with a large black spot on the posterior half of the spinous dorsal, and with 

 another between the anal spines. Length of specimens, 7 to 11 inches. Inland Soa of 

 Japan. Off Inosima, 345 fathoms. 



ScorpcBiia miostoma, n. sp. 



Allied to Scorpcena zanziharensis and Scorpcena longicornis, but with a considerably 

 narrower mouth. 



D. ll/i'o: -^^ 3/5, L. lat. 45. Palatine teeth ; tlic vomerine teeth form a simple open 

 V-shaped band. The height of tlie body is less than the length of the head, which is 

 contained twice and one-third in the tot^l length (without caudnl). Head nearly entirely 

 scaleless. Upper jaw slightly overlapping the lower. Orl.il;il tentacles broad, fringed, 

 shorter than the eye which equals the length uf the snout. Interorbital space deeply 



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