842 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



clouds; fins with dark spots, some of which form bars parallel with the 

 rays: left side white, usually more or less mottled, sometimes barred. 

 Form oval, the outlines regular. Eyes small, separated by a flattish 

 space wider than eye. A concealed spine in front of upper eye. Scales 

 on nape and chin 3 or 4 times size of others. Fins moderate, scaly on 

 both sides; caudal about as long as head. Head 3J; depth 1. D. 

 55; A. 41; V. 4; Lat. I. 75. L. G inches. Atlantic coast, common from 

 Cape Cod southward; ascending rivers. 



(I'll Hi-nut <-U'H (tcJiirus L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, i, 268: PJeuronectes li neat us L. Syst. Nat. 

 ed. 12, i, 458: Achirus mollis Storer, Fish. Mass. 400: Solea aclnrus GUuther, iv, 476.) 



Subsp. bro\vni (Gtbr.) .1. & G. 



Cross-bauds broader, as broad as eye; left side immaculate. Gulf of 

 Mexico and southward. 



(Soha In-owni Giiiitber, iv, 477.) 



465. APHORISTIA Kaup. 



(Kaup, Wiegniann's Archiv. 1858, 106: type Archirus ornatus Lac^pfcde.) 



Eyes and color on the left side. Body elongate, lanceolate in out- 

 line, rounded forward, tapering to a point behind, strongly compressed. 

 Mouth small, unsymmetrical, twisted toward the colored side; teeth 

 small; eyes very small, close together; snout short, not produced, 

 with a hook; lips conspicuous, not evidently fringed; one nostril pres- 

 ent, with a slight barbel, just before lower eye. Scales ctenoid, of mod- 

 eraie si/.e, covering the whole body nearly uniformly; edge of preop- 

 ercle covered by the scales; no lateral line on either side. Dorsal h'n 

 low. beginning just behind the snout, continent with the anal around 

 the tail; pectoral tins obsolete; ventral lin of colored side only pres- 

 ent. not continuous with the anal. (Jill-openings Aery narrow. Warm 

 seas, (tivitfitfjt) a dearth ; taro;, a limb.) 



13OO. A. a 9 fir a lid a .Tor. A (iilb. 



Olivaceous, with very distinct dark streaks along the r6ws of scales, 

 and witli numerous vertical half-bars; those above lateral line alter 

 naling with those below, anterioi IN , nearly meeting them behind; ver- 

 tical fins black posteriorly. I'.ody oblong lanceolate, comparatively 

 slender, not very blunt anteriorly. Month reaching to opposite the 

 eye; lips large; teeth small, present on both sides. Scales small, much 

 smaller on the head: 1 hose on blind side similar. Dorsal beginning on 

 the head: ventral \\cll separated from anal. Head 5.1;; depth 3^. D. 

 100; A. 80; Lat. 1. 105. L. 5 inches. San Diego, Cal. 



(Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 23.) 



