JAPANESE FISHES. 
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is represented as twice the length of the base of the anterior fin and as crossed by 10 transverse series 
of scales. If correctly shown there would seem to be no doubt of the specific distinctness of this form 
from the Japanese type. It may be named Coelorhynchus kermadecus (new specific name). C. parallelus 
has been recorded from the Gulf of Manaar by Alcock (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 1889, p. 391) on the 
basis of “two young specimens, in bad preservation, believed to be this species.” Ample verification 
of this record is to be desired. 
104. Coelorliynchus anatirostris Jordan & Gilbert, new species. 
Type, 40 cm. long, from Misaki, No. 8550, L. S. Jr. U. 
First dorsal ii, 9; ventrals, 7; pectorals, 18. Scales, 3.5 to 4 in a series between lateral line and 
middle of dorsal base. Snout comparatively short, wide and depressed, shaped like a duck’s bill, 
diameter of orbit two-thirds its length. Its lateral outlines more strongly curved than suborbital 
ridge along sides of head. Least interorbital width nearly three-fourths diameter of eye; length of 
snout (without the terminal spine, which is broken) is 2.4 times length of head. Barbel short, about 
half length of eye. Mouth small, its width at angle of gape contained 2.4 times in width of head on 
Ccrtorhynchus anatirostris Jordan & Gilbert, new species. 
same line, length of maxillary 4 in length of head. The mouth occupies space between the verticals 
from anterior nostril and posterior edge of pupil; teeth minute, not arrow-shaped, equal in size, forming 
rather wide bands; gill-membranes form a wide, free fold posteriorly on median line; spinous ridges 
on head are strongly marked; inner pair converge toward middle of their length, then gently diverge. 
At beginning of last third of their length a large scale with single elevated spinous crest occupies 
middle of space between them; this scale markedly different from those around it, but similar to those 
surmounting the ridges. 
First dorsal fin inserted a little behind axil of pectorals; second spine smooth throughout, its 
length equaling that of head behind front of pupil, its tip reaching third ray of second dorsal. The 
interspace between the dorsals is 1 .4 base of first and slightly exceeds diameter of eye; origin of second 
dorsal is over the third anal ray, very low and inconspicuous; longest pectoral ray equals length of 
snout and slightly exceeds other ventral ray; scales large, there being but 3 or 3.5 in series between 
lateral line and middle of first dorsal; those along middle of back and sides have 6 to 9 spinous ridges 
which diverge weakly, but obviously; ridges subequal, each consisting of very oblique, overlapping 
