JAPANESE FISHES. 
593 
HOPLICHTHYIIhE. 
57. Hoplichthys langsdorfi Cuvier & Valenciennes. 
Station 3717, off Ose Point, Suruga Bay, 65 to 125 fathoms. 
PERISTEDIID7E. 
58. Peristedion orientate Sclilegel. 
Station 3707, off Ose Point, Suruga Bay, 68 to 70 fathoms; station 3708, off Ose Point, Suruga Bay, 
65 to 125 fathoms; station 3715, off Ose Point, Suruga Bay, 64 to 65 fathoms; station 3716 and station 
3717, off Ose Point, Suruga Bay, 65 to 125 fathoms. 
Numerous specimens in fine condition, similar to others taken off Misaki and Atami, the largest, 
from station 3707, about a foot in length. 
The original description and figure of this species are very incomplete, Sehlegel’s specimen having 
lost its fins and apparently its coloration also. The processes on the front of the snout are normally 
nearly parallel, but diverge more or less in some, especially young, examples. The body and head 
are covered with vermiculations of dark brown, which are very characteristic. The pectoral has 3 
dark crossbars and a dark submarginal streak exists on the front dorsal; the soft dorsal has two rows 
of dark dots. Barbels numerous but small, the outer branched almost to base, not forming a brush, 
not much longer than eye. 
Peristedion orientate Schlegel. 
59. Peristedion amiscus Jordan & Starks, new species. (PI. 3, figs. 1 and 2.) 
A species with a very broad, shovel-shaped head, and very strong spines above, eye and at nape. 
Head 2.5 in length; depth 5.5; width of head 3.25; D. vi-20; A. 22; scales 36; eye 4.25 in head; 
snout 1.83; processes on snout 6.5; longest barbel 1.33; pectoral 1.83; ventral 2.5. 
Body fusiform, tapering, with 4 rows of bony scutes, each ending in a hooked spine, on either 
side; ventral row with spines much smaller except anteriorly; along posterior part of anal the spine 
is very low but evident; lower lateral row commencing just anterior to tip of pectoral, and ending at 
base of lower caudal rays; upper lateral row strongly and abruptly arched over anterior half of pectoral, 
ending at base of median caudal rays; dorsal row commencing at nape just within the large parietal 
spine and ending at base'of upper caudal rays. 
Head very broad, depressed, and expanded around the edges; anterior processes much divergent 
and tapering, the distance between the tips twice the length of one process; lateral wing of spine with 
2 blunt spines, 1 opposite anterior and 1 opposite posterior orbital margin; preopercle with a long 
F. C. B. 1902 — 3S 
