JAPANESE FISHES. 
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First dorsal inserted well behind pectorals and ventrals, which are in the same vertical; second 
spine strong, mostly smooth, with a very few distant and very weak spinules distal ly. These are 
scarcely perceptible even under the lens. Its tip is produced into a slender filament, which projects 
beyond first branched ray for half the length of latter; length of spine very slightly exceeds length of 
head; second dorsal very low and indistinct anteriorly, where the short rays are entirely disconnected 
and lie concealed beneath the scales; they were detected as far forward as a point distant from the first 
dorsal half the length of base of latter; by dissection, they could probably be traced still farther 
forward; anal origin below origin of second dorsal, as above described; anal opening immediately in 
front of first ray; ventrals wide, with rounded posterior margin, outer ray slender and filamentous, 
reaching vent, its length half that of head; pectorals broad, reaching vertical from the anal origin, their 
length three-fifths that of head. 
Scales on body large, with numerous very minute spines arranged in 13 to 17 subparallel series; 
scales on opercles similar, but on the top and sides of head greatly reduced in size, the spines longer 
and with less definite arrangement. The naked area includes the gill-membranes, a narrow strip 
along lower portion of interopercle, all of mandible except a narrow band of scales along middle of 
its proximal portion, and a narrow strip along lower margin of suborbital. 
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Coryphsenoides awse Jordan & Gilbert, new species. Type. 
Color a uniform light grayish, probably from long exposure of specimen to light; anal with black 
margin, and, together with the dorsal, becoming wholly black posteriorly. The pectorals, the ventrals, 
and opercular membrane seem to have been bluish in life; buccal cavity light, gill cavity dark 
purplish. 
Known only from the type specimen. 
C. awx is closely related to C. margincitus Steindachner and Doderlein, but the important differences 
given in the following table prevent us from regarding the two as identical. 
C. muse. 
Head 5.3 in total length. 
Depth 5.3. 
Eye 4.33 in head. 
Snout 3.4. 
Width of head 1.83. 
Scales with 13 to 17 minute spinous ridges. 
Vent distant from snout 1.6 times length of head. 
Basal portion of second dorsal spine smooth. 
Naked area of head including lips, all hut median strip of 
mandible, lower half of interopercle, and lower margin of 
suborbital. 
C. marginatus. 
Head ca. 5.75. 
Depth ca. 7.5. 
Eye 3.6 in head. 
Snout 3.83. 
Width of head 2.25. 
Scales with about 12 spinous rows. 
Vent distant from snout twice length of head. 
Basal portion of second dorsal spine with about 6 spinelets. 
Naked area of head confined to lips and lower margin of 
mandible, 
F. C. B, 1902—39 
