REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 47 



Tautogolabrus ads2:)ersus. 



The stages of the young of this species are described at length by 

 Agassiz (1882). The eggs and young of this species and those of 

 Tautoga onitis resemble each other very closely, and the present writer 

 believes that Agassiz has confused the young of these two species^ 

 and that several of the specimens described as belonging to T, 

 adspersus are really young tautog. The evidence for this belief 

 the writer hopes to publish soon in a paper based upon his observa- 

 tions made at the Wickford Experiment Station, where every year 

 the eggs and young of the two species in question occur in considerable 

 numbers in the lobster rearing cars. 



Pseudorhornhus oblongus. 



Much confusion exists in the synonymy of the three species of 

 Paralichthys found in this vicinity, but according to Jordan and 

 Evermann (1898, p. 2630), Pseudorhomhus oblongus (Giinther) is to 

 be identified with Paralichthys lethostigmus (Jordan and Gilbert.) 

 This species, however, is a southern form and not reported north of 

 New York, and therefore that its eggs should be taken in the neigh- 

 borhood of Newport is improbable. But this fish closely resembles 

 the common summer flounder of Rhode Island waters, and Agassiz 

 and Whitman may have intended his description to apply to the 

 young'of Paralichtys dentatus. The difficulty of deciding just which 

 species the author had in mind is further increased by a confused 

 arrangement of the descriptive matter in the text and a discrepancy 

 in the labeling of the plates. But whatever the species intended, it is 

 doubtful that these eggs belong to P. dentatus. They are described 

 as having no oil globule; if they really belong to any species of Para- 

 lichthys they furnish an exception to the general rule stated by Cun- 

 ningham (1896), that the eggs of most left-sided species of flat-fishes 

 have a single oil globule. Furthermore, it is not known that P. 

 dentatus spawns in inshore waters. I have been able to find in the 

 literature no references to the eggs and young of this species, and 



