JAPANESE FISHES. 
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front of orbit; teeth small and set in a single row; six very short gillrakers on lower arch of first gill. 
Scales finely ctenoid, the spinules on the scales slender and very numerous; blind side with cycloid 
scales; lateral line with a very abrupt, short, high curve, its height contained 1.83 in its chord, which 
is half length of head, its beginning opposite the terminal third of pectoral. Dorsal beginning in 
advance of eye; pectoral of eyed side long and slender, of blind side less than half as long; ventral 
with 6 rays, that of blind side not prolonged, its base beginning behind front of ventral of eyed side 
and its tip reaching further past front of anal; caudal rounded behind, its outer edges broadly rounded, 
scarcely angulated. 
Color light brown, spotted with dark brown, ocellated spots, 3 above and 3 below lateral line, the 
anterior upper spot in advance of that below; 5 spots with edges more blended along body near base 
of dorsal, 4 similar ones along body near base of anal, these involving base of fins; one on opercle just 
above gill-opening; pectoral of eyed side dark brown. 
Two small specimens taken in from 45 to 60 fathoms, in Suruga Bay, stations 3713 and 3714; the 
former, the type, 65 mm. in length, is numbered 51461, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; the other is No. 8387, 
Stanford University. 
The species differs somewhat from the type of Engyprosopon, but it is doubtless referable to the 
same genus. It is named for Dr. S. Iijima, professor of zoology in the Imperial University of Tokyo. 
121. Scseops grandisquama (Schlegel). (PI. 8, fig. 2.) 
Two small specimens taken; one at station 3762, Owari Bay, in 42 fathoms, the other at station 
3754, off Sune Point, Sagami Bay, in 50 fathoms. 
This is a common shore fish of southern Japan. 
This species is the type of a distinct genus, Scxops J ordan & Starks, allied to Platophrys, but dis- 
tinguished by the large deciduous scales. In the more closely related genus Engyprosojjon, the scales 
are firm, the gillrakers long and slender, and the teeth in two rows. In Scxops, the gillrakers are 
very short and triangular and the teeth in one row. Platophrys pcecilurus Bleeker, from the East 
Indies, is also a species of Scxops. 
10PHI1D/E. 
Lophius litulon (Jordan). 
122. Lophius litulon (Jordan). 
Lophiomus litulon Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, 1902, 364: Matsushima Bay. 
Station 3773, Matsushima Bay, in 78 fathoms. 
This species is a true Lophius, as Mr. C. T. Regan has already indicated, having 28 vertebra?. 
