NO. 1115. PBOCEEVINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 457 



with some scales; iuteroibital space depressed, 5a m head. Eye very 

 large (in young), 2| in head; snout short, depressed, not pointed, and 

 with lateral keel, 5f in head. Prcorbital very narrow. Mouth rather 

 large, oblique, the maxillary reaching to below front of pui)il, L':| in 

 head; lower jaw slightly longer, its tip with a stittisli pointed projec- 

 tion representing the barbel; teeth small, in bands, a few on vomer. 

 No spines on snout or opercles. (lill membranes somewliat united, free 

 from isthmus. Gill rakers slender, rather long, 10 to 1- on lower p;irt 

 of arch. Scales very small, mostly lost posteriorly and not to be exactly 

 counted. Lateral line not evident. First dorsal rather low ami lonii, 

 none of its rays produced, tlie longest about half head. Ventrals tihi- 

 mentous, half head; pectorals about half head; caudal li.^ head: anal 

 deeply notched behind the middle, its posterior lobe highest. 



Color uniform i)urplish black, the tins paler. 



Type.—^o. 47748, U.S.N.M. 



Young specimen, 2;^ inches long, from Albatross station 2993, in 364 

 fathoms, near Clarion Island of the Revilla-Gigcdo group, Mexico. 



Family PLEURONECTID^E. 



PARALICHTHYS WOOLMANI, Jordan and Williams, new species. 



Head 3i; depth about 2 in length of body; gill rakers 5+11; dor- 

 sal 74; anal 57; pectoral 12; ventral (>. 



Flesh Arm. Body oblong; mouth large, mandible heavy, not project 

 ing; about 8 teeth on each side of lower jaw, the anterior ones long but 

 slender; teeth in ui)[)er jaw smaller than those in lower jaw ; the lateral 

 teeth very small and close set. Eye small, 5.^ in length of head; inter- 

 orbital area moderately prominent, narrow, about two-tifths in length 

 of eye. Scales cycloid, small anteriorly and increasing in size pos- 

 teriorly, covering head and tins; about 100 on lateral line. Lateral line 

 greatly arched anteriorly, the arch about 3i times in length of straight 

 portion. Gill rakers slender, the longest about one-half length of 

 eye. Pectoral and ventral Hns small; pectoral about one half length 

 of head. Origin of dorsal opposite anterior margin of eye; caudal 

 ending in an obtuse angle, not double concave; caudal peduncle wide. 

 Anal spine obsolete. Body and tins blotched with deep brown and 

 pearly white and speckled with very dark brown, blotches more dehuite 

 on median hns and especially on caudal where there are three mdetinite 

 lines of blotches crossing the skin. 



Ti/pe.—'^o. 47575, U.S.N.M. 



Specimen 9i inches long, taken at the Galapagos Islands by the 

 Albidross in 1888. It was then thought to be Pdralichthiis adspersus, 

 from whi(;h species it differs but little except in the number and length 

 of the gill rakers. 



This species is named for Mr. Albert J. Woolman, of Uuluth, Minne- 

 sota, m recognition of his work on the fresh- water tishesof Mexico and 

 Florida. 



