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We refer these specimens to Lepidotrigla microptera Giinther (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hi it. 1873, 241) = 
Lepidotrigla slrauchii Steindachner, Ich. Beitr., v, p. 166, 1876, Hakodate. The latter is without much 
doubt the same, although a shore fish, without any of the brilliant coloration of the specimens in hand. 
The only difference we can find is that these specimens were red, while shore examples are olive-green. 
Lepidotrigla microptera may be known by the black spot on the posterior part of dorsal, the dorsal 
and anal slightly longer than in L. guntheri and L. abyssalis, and the short detached pectoral rays which 
do not reach to tip of ventral. 
We have large examples of Lepidotrigla microptera from the Tokyo market corresponding to 
Lepidotrigla strauchi Steindachner. In these the sharp line separating the silvery of the belly from 
the darker color of the back is still more apparent than in our species. In specimens a foot long 
there is no trace of black on the dorsal fin, but in the young of 4 inches the black ocellus is still 
evident. In these large specimens each lobe of the snout ends in a large spine and several smaller 
seme. This is the commonest species of the genus in Japan, extending its range well to the north- 
ward. We have numerous specimens from Aomori, Hakodate, Tsuruga, Matsushima, and Hiroshima. 
The remaining Japanese species of Lepidotrigla is X. alata (Houttuyn) =L. burgeri (Schlegel). 
Of this we have many specimens from the shores of southern Japan, but none taken in the dredge. 
In this species the snout has two long diverging processes. 
Lepidotrigla japonica ( Blocker ) . 
63. Lepidotrigla japonica (Bleeker). 
Prionotus japonicus Bleeker, Niewe Nalez, Japan, 1857, 75, taf. v, f. 1. 
7 cpidotrigla japonica Steindachner, Fische Japans, iv, 261, 1887; Oshima, Kagoshima. 
f Lepidotrigla serndens Hilgendorf, Naturf. Freunde, 1879, p. 107, Tokyo; “ Schnabel in tier Mitte nicht ausgeschnitten 
und jederseits mit einem etwas stiirkeren Zahne versehen.” 
For purposes of comparison we present a figure of this rare species from one of two specimens 
taken in a net at Misaki. The pectoral is longer than in other species of Lepidotrigla. 
GOBIID/E. 
64. Coryphopterus pflaumi (Bleeker). 
Ctenogobhis.pflaumi, Jordan & Snyder, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, 1902, p. 65; Owari Bay. 
Station 3722, Owari Bay, in 3 to 9 fathoms. The type of Ctenogobius ( C . fasciatus) is said to have 
the tongue emarginate. The name Coryphopterm may then be used for species of this type. 
