2684: Bulletin ^y, United States National Museum. 



scales thin, deciduous ; eye equal to snout or iuterorbital space ; interor- 

 bital with a strong- ridge; teeth minute, close set, in a single series, 

 stronger on the blind side; a strong, sharp spine on the snout at the 

 anterior termination of the ridge at lower margin of upper ej^e; caudal 

 pointed, triangular, suhsessile; pectoral of left side twice as long as the 

 eye, not^ longer than right pectoral. Dorsal beginning at side of preor- 

 bital spine, its anterior rays being slightly upon the blind side; anal 

 equal to dorsal in height. Ashy gray, with dark lateral line; eyes black. 

 (Goode.) Deep waters of the Gulf Stream, (unicornis, having one horn.) 

 Citharichtlii/t,- unicornis, Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 342, Gulf Stream off south- 

 east of New England ; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 818, 1883 ; Jordan & Goss, 

 Keview rioumlers aud Soles, 275, 1889; Goode & Bean, Oceanic Iclithyology, Hi, 

 fig. 369, A & B, 1896. 



3060. CITHARUHTHYS UHLERI, Jordan. 



D. 68; A. 52; scales 53 (pores). Body comparatively broad, regularly 

 oval, without angle; greatest depth of body under middle of dorsal; eyes 

 moderate, 4i in head, close together, the orbital ridges coalescent, the 

 lower larger. Teeth small, uniserial; maxillary 2i in head; gill rakers 

 short and very slender, x + 12. Color dark brown, with whitish blotches, 

 the fins mottled. Hayti. A single specimen in the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology, H inches in length. Tlie species is close to Citluirichlhys 

 macrops, Init its fin rays and scales are considerably more numerous than 

 in the latter. (Named for Mr. Philip Reese Uhler, the well-known ento- 

 mologist, its discoverer.) 



Citharichthys ulilcri, Jordan & Goss, Keview Flounders and Soles, 275, 1889, Hayti. 

 (Coll. P. E. Uhler. Type in Mus. Comp. Zool.) ' 



3057. CITHARICTHYS MACROPS, Diesel. 



Head 4 in body ; depth scarcely 2. D. 80 ; A. 56 ; scales 14-41-16 ; lower eye 

 4 in head ; maxillary 2i ; highest dorsal rays a little over 2 ; pectoral of eyed 

 side If ; caudal 4 in body ; vertebriB 9 -f 25 =34. Body suboval ; upper pro- 

 file very convex, descending in a sharp curve from nape to front of upper 

 eye, and forming an abrupt angle with the short, blunt snout; mouth mod- 

 erate, very oblique aud curved ; maxillary reaching to below middle of eye ; 

 teeth minute, uniserial, slightly larger on blind side; interorbital narrow, 

 with a scaleless ridge, which curves upward and backAvard to ujiper angle 

 of gill opening; upper eye very close to profile, its anterior margin on the 

 same vertical line with lower; snout shorter than eye; gill rakers about ^ 

 the length of eye, 6 + 13 in number. Scales large, not ciliated, no acces- 

 sory scales; origin of dorsal on blind side near tip of snout, anterior rays 

 exserted, the first ray as long as eye, the fin highest at its middle portion; 

 origin of anal under base of pectoral, its highest part a little higher than 

 dorsal ; caudal pointed ; pectoral of blind side somewhat shorter than that 

 of eyed side. Color in spirits, light-olive brown ; body with sonu^ 20 dark- 

 brown spots, the largest as large as eye, 4 of these arranged at equal inter- 

 vals along the lateral line, the second near the middle the most ])rominent ; 

 dorsal and anal fins with a series of round, brown spots, 1 at the middle of 

 every sixth or seventh ray, besides small irregular spots and mottlings; 



