JAPANESE FISHES. 
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61. Lepidotrigla abyssalis Jordan & Starks, new species. 
Head 3 in length; depth 4.2; D. vm-15; A. 15; scales 56; eye 3.16 in head; snout 2.5; maxillary 
2.75; interorbital space 4; first dorsal spine 2.1; second dorsal spine 1.75; pectoral 1.1; ventral 1.25; 
caudal 1.4. 
Head rather high, about as in L. guntheri. Snout almost truncate at tip, a sharp spine slightly 
projects at each angle; interorbital rather deeply concave; a short narrow cross-furrow above posterior 
margin of eye on supraorbital region, but not extending across top of head medially; slight indications 
of ridges on parietal region; nuchal spines and ridges but little developed; a slight ridge running back 
from upper posterior orbital rim; humeral spine moderately strong; second dorsal spine longest, 
though scarcely the strongest; when fin is depressed its tip reaches to front of soft dorsal, or barely 
past the tips of the other spines, while the third, fourth, and fifth are coterminal; first spine reaching 
only a little past base of last; upper detached pectoral ray reaching tip of ventral, which reaches base 
of second anal ray; pectoral reaching to opposite base of sixth anal ray. 
Lepidotrigla abyssalis Jordan & Starks, new species. Type. 
Color mottled red; pectoral bluish black; other fins without markings; no traces of a spot on 
spinous dorsal. 
This species differs from L. guntlieri in having more slender dorsal spines, the second dorsal spine 
not enlarged, top of head without spines. These comparisons are made between fishes of about the 
same size. In large specimens of L. guntheri the top of the head is as smooth as in this species, while 
in very small specimens the second dorsal spine is not much enlarged. 
The type and only specimen was taken in Suruga Bay, station 3713, in from 50 to 60 fathoms. It 
is 93 mm. in length, and is No. 51440, U. S. Nat. Mus. 
62. Lepidotrigla microptera Gunther. 
D. ix-17; A. 17; head very smooth, the anterior profile straight; snout deeply eirarginate, the 
prominences on each side short and sharp, each ending in a spine; preocular spine almost obsolete; no 
spines on top of head; nuchal spine blunt and inconspicuous; opercular spine small; humeral spine 
long and sharp; second dorsal spine longest, 1.5 in head; pectoral as long as head. 
Color, brown; belly silvery, a pale or golden line marking the boundary above; a large, black 
ocellus on last dorsal spines; pectoral black. 
Station 3715, off Ose Point, Suruga Bay, in 64 to 65 fathoms; station 3770, in Matsushima Bay, in 
42 to 45 fathoms. 
Color in life of specimen from station 3715, scarlet red above, abruptly white below. First dorsal 
red with a large black spot on its posterior rays; second dorsal brick red, caudal scarlet, becoming 
crimson behind, ventrals and anal pale, pectoral blackish purple above, paler below. 
