404 
BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Color in alcohol: Body and head dark brown, paler below, jaws dusky; dorsal and anal fins 
brown with narrow white marginal band and black submarginal band, the black widest on the poste- 
rior divergent tips of the caudal ends of the two fins. 
This species is similar to Brotula multibarbata 1 of Japan, differing from it in having the ventrals 
distinctly bifid, in having the front of the dorsal fin back of the bases of the pectorals, and in having 
the very distinctly outlined submarginal black band on the dorsal and anal fins instead of simply a 
diffusion of black along the same areas. 
One specimen, 220 mm. long, collected by Dr. Wood at Honolulu. Type No. 49694, IT. S. N. M. 
( Marginalis , in reference to the black border of the dorsal and anal fins.) 
The following are measurements and numbers of fin rays and scales of the specimen: 
Brotula marginalis. 
No. 1. 
Brotula marginalis. 
No. 1. 
220 
.03 
.20 
.05 | 
.20 
Dorsal rays 
96 
.10 
70 
.12 
165 
Eye (longitudinal) 
.05 
Scales (transverse) 
44 
Leland Stanford Jr. University, October 1, 1900. 
1 Brotula multibarbata Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., p. 251, pi. in, fig. 2, 1847; Guenther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., 
IV, p. 371, 1862. 
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