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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
spine, two-thirds length of eye, preceded by a sharp ridge and extending posterior to all other parts 
of head; opercle with a small, short, sharp spine, preceded by a low, sharp ridge; a small spine over 
front of eye, a high spine over posterior part of eye; a very high sharp occipital spine, two-thirds 
diameter of eye; no spines above muzzle; lower jaw with many barbels, the outermost a long branched 
brush over two-thirds length of head, and reaching to within a diameter of pupil of the vent; breast 
with soft skin; fins moderate; spinous dorsal beginning between second and third spines of dorsal 
series of plates; tips of spines when depressed reaching to base of second dorsal rav; anal projecting 
posteriorly beyond soft dorsal, its origin opposite that of the latter. Tip of pectoral reaching fifteenth 
spine of upper series of plates; ventrals reaching just past middle of vent; caudal concave, its length 
2.75 in head. 
Color brown, probably red in life, with no black spots or marblings except a spot behind eye and 
a few dark edgings on ridges of head; pectoral black, pale-edged below; spinous dorsal black; soft 
dorsal, caudal, and ventral mottled; a dusky shade below last rays of soft dorsal; outer barbels of 
mouth black on distal half. 
One specimen, the type No. 51428, U. S. Nat. Mus., from station 3698, off Manazuru Point, Sagami 
Bay, in 153 fathoms. 
TRIGLID4E. 
60. iLepidotrigla guntheri Hilgendorf. 
Lepidotrigla guntheri Hilgendorf, Ges. Naturf. Freunde, 1879, 106; Tokyo. 
Lepidotrigla longispinis Steindachner, Fische Japans, iv, 1262, taf. iv, fig. 1, 1887: Tokyo. 
Station 3708, 65 to 125 fathoms; station 3713, 500 to 600 fathoms; station 3714, 48 to 60 fathoms; 
station 3715, 64 to 65 fathoms; and station 3717, 65 to 125 fathoms, all off Ose Point, Suruga Bay; and 
station 3727 in Totomi Bay. 
Head 3 in length; depth 4.16; D. viii- 15; A. 15; scales 55; eye 3.5 irt head. Head moderately 
decurved, the muzzle emarginate, the lateral prominences moderate, weakly toothed, at tip a preoper- 
cular spine; a low postocular spine with a cross furrow behind it, a low spine behind this, on each 
side of the vertex; nuchal spine long and sharp, the inner edge of the bone strongly serrated; second 
dorsal spine very strong, 1.33 in head, reaching far past the other spines when fin is depressed, and 
well past front of soft dorsal; pectoral 1.16 in head; longest detached pectoral ray reaching to tip of 
ventrals. Adult examples a foot in length have the head smoother, spines on vertex obsolete, spinules 
on snout longer, interorbital space less concave, second dorsal spine higher, pectoral fin longer. 
Color brown, with 3 brown cross-shades, one under each dorsal and one at base of caudal, these 
fainter with age; young with a blackish bar at tip of caudal; pectoral black within; back mottled; no 
black dorsal spot, but sometimes a dusky cross-shade on dorsal; no sharp line on side bounding the 
pale color of belly. 
The long dorsal spine and the broad, serrated nuchal process are especially characteristic of this 
species. 
Five young specimens with the body and caudal fin banded and with the spines on the head 
rougher, the dorsal spines lower, we regard as the young of Lepidotrigla guntheri. Station 3708, off 
Ose Point, Suruga Bay, in 65 to 125 fathoms, two examples; station 3717, off Ose Point, Suruga Bay, 
in 65 to 125 fathoms, two examples; station 3727, Totomi Bay, one example. Head short and deep, 
snout steep, little produced, emarginate at tip, its lobes slightly serrate; eyebrow elevated, coarsely 
toothed, posterior serra a strong spine; a sharp spine on each side of vertex; a sharp parietal spine; 
nuchal spine strong, broad, with inner edge serrate; humeral and opercular spines strong; dorsal 
spines rather long, strongly serrated, second 1.66 in head; pectoral short, 1.2 in head (young). 
Head gray, marbled with blackish and with numerous black specks; pectoral closely spotted with 
black, so that the fin appears blackish; a blackish cross-shade on body below spinous dorsal; another 
below soft dorsal, these extending on fins; another at base of caudal; caudal with a round black 
blotch near tip. 
The longest of these is 4 inches long, smallest 1.5 inches. We have also a large example nearly a 
foot in length from the Yokohama market. 
