JAPANESE EISHES. 
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Color, light greyish or brownish above, silvery on middle of sides; mandibles, branchial, and gular 
membranes, breast, and belly, and an area along anterior portion of anal black or blue-black; gular 
membrane coarsely vermiculated with brown; upper lip black; mouth cavity light, except the extreme 
posterior part of roof, which is black; gill cavity black; lower portion of shoulder girdle and isthmus 
silvery; hyoid arch light, the narrow posterior margin of gill and opercular membranes white; ventral 
portion of lining of abdominal cavity bright silvery; axil of pectorals black; tins dusky. 
This species is closely allied to Coryphxnoides ctenomelas, from the Hawaiian Islands, differing in 
the much smaller outer premaxillary teeth, which are scarcely enlarged in this species, and in spina- 
tion of scales, as well as in many small details. 
(Named for Samuel Carman.) 
From station 3695, Sagami Bay, 110 to 259 fathoms; station 3697, Sagami Bay, 120 to 265 fathoms; 
station 3698, Sagami Bay, 153 fathoms; station 3737, Suruga Bay, 161 to 167 fathoms. 
95. Coryphaenoides misakius Jordan & Gilbert, new species. „ 
Type 340 mm. long, from Misaki; collectors, Jordan & Snyder: No. 8107 L. S. Jr. Univ. 
First dorsal ii, 11 (n, 10 to 11, 12); ventrals 8; pectorals 21 (19 to 21); 10 scales in a vertical 
series between lateral line and origin of second dorsal; head 5 in total length (tail slightly injured); 
depth 6.5. 
Coryphxnoides misakius Jordan & Gilbert, new species. 
In form and general appearance, including the character of the scales and lateral line, and the 
presence of a ventral pit, this species strongly resembles Malacocephalus Isevis and hawaiiensis, to which 
it may have real affinity, notwithstanding the pluriserial dentition and the serrated dorsal spine. 
Head compressed, with subvertical cheeks; crests very thin and papery, but membranes thick; 
top of head convex in all directions; snout short and high, its lower anterior profile very oblique, the 
distance between its tip and the premaxillaries one-fourth length of head. Width of the very convex 
interorbital space is 3.43 in the head; longitudinal diameter of orbit 2.77; vertical diameter 3.5; length 
of snout 3.25; greatest width of snout 2.75. The middle of length of head falls slightly behind posterior 
edge of pupil. 
Mouth rather wide, with lateral cleft, but little overpassed laterally by the suborbitals, which 
have a very low ridge. The maxillary reaches a vertical from a point between posterior margin of orbit 
and pupil, its length 2.33 in head. The snout projects axially beyond the premaxillaries for a 
distance equaling two-thirds diameter of orbit; premaxillary teeth in a very narrow band, not more 
than three or four teeth wide, tapering laterally to about 2 series; outer series slightly enlarged ante- 
riorly; mandibular teeth in a very narrow band or irregular double series, those of inner series 
enlarged about as much as outer premaxillary teeth. Barbel short, about one-fourtli vertical diam- 
eter of eye. Preopercular angle much produced, posterior preopercular edge very oblique, incurved. 
