2554 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



veut under sixteenth ray of second dorsal. Color light brown; lower 

 parts minutely dotted; dorsals with narrow dark margius; caudal with 

 a broad dark margin ; anal with a narrow dark margin in its posterioi' 

 third; roof of mouth and interior of gill cavity dark brown. Deep water 

 of the Gulf of Mexico. (Goode & Bean.) {cirratus, bearing cirri.) 



PhycU cirratus, GooDE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 358, 1896, Gulf of Mexico at Lat. 

 29° 03' 15" N., Long. 88^ 16' W. (Type, No. 39059. Coll. Albatross.) 



2926. UROPHTCIS FLORIDAXUS, Bean & Dresel. 



Head 4 in l)ody ; depth 6. D. 13-57; A. 49; scales about 120; eye 6 in 

 head ; maxillary 2 ; height of first dorsal 2i ; middle caudal rays 2. Body 

 rather elongate, compressed, head subconic; mouth large, the maxillary 

 reaching to below posterior margin of orbit; upper jaw and snout some- 

 what projecting beyond lower; small cardilorm teeth, in narrow bands 

 on jaws and vomer; barbel very slender, small; interorbital space wide, 

 slightly convex, nearly twice as wide as eye ; gill rakers small, slender, 

 2 + 11 in number. Origin of dorsal a little behind the vertical from base 

 of pectoral; tirst dorsal high, slightly falcate; second dorsal a little 

 higher in its anterior end, higher than anal; origin of anal about midway 

 between tip of snout and base of caudal; pectoral slender, reaching an 

 eye's diameter beyond front of second dorsal; ventrals inserted twice 

 diameter of eye in front of pectorals, 2-rayed, the inner ray the longer, 

 not reaching to vent in larger examples, reaching to front of anal in small 

 ones; caudal long and rounded. Color in spirits, reddish brown, light 

 below, a small black spot above eye, a vertical series of 3 or 4 behind eye, 

 and 2 on opercle, these spots less than ^ pupil, distinct and clear cut; a 

 dark streak from preorbital across cheek to edge of opercle, lateral line 

 black, interrupted at short intervals by white spots; fins dusky, with the 

 exception of pectorals and ventrals, dark toward the ends of the rays. 

 Gulf of Mexico, in rather shallow water, coming to shore in abundance 

 about Pensaeola in cold weather. Here described from a specimen, 7i 

 inches in length, from Pensaeola, Florida, {floridanus, from Florida.) 



Phycis fioridanus, Bean & Deesel, Proc. Biol. Soc. "Wash. 1884, 100, Pensaeola, Florida 

 (Coll. Silas Stearns) ; JoRDAN,.Cat. Fish. N. A., 129, 1885. 



2927. IIROPHYCIS EARLLl, Bean. 



Head Sk in body; depth 5. D. 10-60; A. 53; scales 155; eye 6 in head; 

 maxillary 2. Body moderately elongate, not much compressed anteriorly; 

 mouth large, the maxillary reaching to below or very slightly past poste- 

 rior m.argin of eye; snout and^upper jaw projecting beyond lower jaw; 

 teeth strong, cardiform in a narrow band on vomer and lower jaw, in a 

 rather wide band in upper; interorbital wide, convex, about 11 times ej^e; 

 • gill rakers short and blunt, about 2-(-9. Origin of dorsal slightly behind 

 the A^ertical from base of pectoral; origin of anal about midway between 

 snout and base of caudal; ventrals 2-rayed, the inner a little the longer, 

 not reaching to vent. Color brown, with some light spots on the second 

 dorsal fin and on the sides; anal and both dorsals margined with brown. 



