064 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY - IV. 



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FAMILY 120 (6).- CHIASMODONTIDJE. 



We are indebted to Professor Gill for the following note on the re- 

 lationships of C1ii(tsmodon: 



"The genus Chiasmodon lias no affinity with the Gadida 1 , but is nearly 

 related to souie forms included by Dr. Giiuther in the heterogeneous 

 group designated as the family Trachinidcv. It should apparently be 

 isolated as the type of a peculiar family, which may be provisionally 

 defined as follows: 



" Acanthopterygians with a short first dorsal of slender spines; a 

 long second dorsal and anal; ventrals normal (I, 5) and thoracic; mouth 

 very deeply cleft ; upper jaw not protractile, covered by an integument 

 in common with the snout anteriorly; the opercular apparatus very ob- 

 lique and reduced. 



"This family is perhaps as nearly allied to the Chwnichthytilce as to 

 any other." (Gill MSS.) 



Page 816. Instead of Citharichthyx ttramaca read: 

 1256. . pBCtTuilus (Goode & Bean) J. & G. 



Instead of the synonymy in the text read: 

 (Hemirhombua pOBtulua Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Phila. 1882,414.) 



The known specimens are from Peiisacola, Florida. 



After Cithariohihys pcetulua add: 

 1256 (l>). C. occlluloas (Poey) J. & G. 



Light brownish; head, body, and fins everywhere finely mottled and 

 blorehed with whitish and dusky. Body moderately elongate. Mouth 

 >mall, very oblique, the maxillary extending to opposite middle of eye. 

 its length L'A in head. Teeth rather small, unequal, some of the upper 

 almost canine like, in two rows above and one below; eye 4 in head; 

 interorbital area rather broad, concave, its width - length of eye. Dorsal 

 rather low, its anterior rays beginning on right (blind) side. Caudal 

 rounded, its length ,! head; left pectoral filamentous, nearly as long as 

 head. Ventrals short, the left ventral on abdominal ridge. Lateral 

 line without curve. Accessory scales greatly developed (as in the 

 s Platophrys, which this species much resembles). Head .'5;; ; depth 

 1). SS; A. 70; Lat. 1. about GO (pores of blind side). 



1'nry, Mnii. ( 'ul i;i , i i , '.\ 1 t , 1 sen : HinilrlnimliuH oceUatus Pocy. 



I'i-c. ('nil. in7:.' Henrirkambu* aramaca (iiintlicr, i 



