low. Gill rakers 2 + 12, low spinescent tubercles on second arch, 1/2 
of gill filaments, which 3 3/4 in orbit* 
Scales 227 in lateral line, smell, adherent; 12 or 13 above, 
30 below, 58 predorsal to snout end of which 24 forward opposite hind 
edge of orbit. Scales with 10 or 11 irregular somewhat horizontal 
apical rows of long slender spinules, last extended well beyond hind 
edge of scale; circuli moderate, complete. 
D. 10 or II, 11_JL43, second simple ray slender, with 
row of fine close~set antrorse spinules along front edge, length 2 to 
2 2/3 in head; interdorsal space 2 l/4 to 2 2/5; A. 157, fin height 4 
1/5 to 5 l/5, pectoral rays I_, 18, fin 1 7/8 to 2 in head; ventral rays 
I* 7, fin 2 3/4 to 3 l/8 in head. 
Uniformly brownish, lower surfaces of head and trunk darker. 
Iris dark gray. Inside mouth pale* Inside gill opening blackish 
brown, paler deep inside. Fins brown* 
Philippines, Japan. Jordan and Gilbert have noted this 
species in their original description as "strongly resembling Malac o- 
cepha l us laevis and hawaiiensis " though their figure of C. misakius 
fails in showing the front edge of the second simple dorsal ray entire, 
though their description says "second dorsal spine finely serrulated 
throughout, except for a very short distance at base and tip." 
U. S. N. M., No. 51421. 
Length 207? to 390 mm. 4 examples. Paratypes* 
