2G92 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



8064. MONOLENE ATRIMAIVA, Goode & Bean. 



Head 4i in lenoth of body; depth about 3. D. 124; A. 100; scales 30- 

 105-32; eye 2| iu head ; maxillary 3; highest dorsal ray 2 ; left ventral 3i ; 

 pectoral 4^ in body ; caudal 6. Body rather elongate ; snout slightly pro- 

 duced. Mouth oblique, the maxillary extending to a little behind front 

 of lower eye, teeth uniserial, well developed on both sides; lower eye in 

 advance of upper ; interorliital a very narrow ridge, about 9 in eye ; nos- 

 trils in very short tubes in the same line with the interorbital ridge, the 

 posterior one is slightly less distant from lower eye than the anterior one 

 is from the snout; head everywhere scaly; lateral line strongly arched 

 over anterior third of pectoral. Origin of dorsal on blind side above front 

 of lower eye, longest rays iu posterior fourth of fin ; highest rays of anal a 

 little higher than dorsal rays; pectoral on eyed side only ; caudal sessile, 

 rounded. Color light brownish gray, right ventral pale, other fins dusky ; 

 pectoral and eyelids black. West Indies. The type was taken by the 

 Blake in 288 fathoms, oft' Barbados; its length is 114mm. (Goode & Bean.) 

 {aier, black; manns, hand.) 

 Mimolene alrimana, Goode & Bean, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xii, 155, 1886, deep waters off 



Barbados; JORDAN & Goss, Keview Flounders and Soles, 280, 1889; Goode & Bean, 



Oceanic Ichthyology, 455, flg. 358, 1896. 



Family CCXX. SOLEID^, 



(The Soles.) 



Body oblong or elongate, usually scaly ; mouth very small, much twisted 

 toward the eyed side; the teeth in villiform bands, very small or obsolete; 

 eyes small, close together, with or without a bony ridge between them; 

 edge of preoperclc adnate, concealed by the skin and scales; gill openings 

 narrow, the gill membranes adnate to the shoulder girdle above; iiectoral 

 fins small or wanting; ventral fins small, 1 or both sometimes wanting. 

 Small fishes living on sandj'^ bottoms, similar to the FJeiironcctidw in struc- 

 ture, but much degraded, the fins and teeth having lost many of their 

 distinctive qualities. The vertebra? are usually in increased numbers.* 



* The following are the numbers of vertebrfs in several species of Soleidce: 



I.—ACRIRINM. 



Achirus fasciattis 8 -f- 20 = 28 



Acliirus iusci'iptus 9 4- 19= 28 



II. — SOLEIN^. 



Synaptnra zebra [8 -f- 41 = 49] 



Soleasolea 9-|-40= 49 



Solea kleini 10 + 37 :^ 47 



Sole.a aurantiaca [46] 



Qnenselia ocellata 9 -f 28 = 37 



ISIicrochirus luteus 8 + 29 = 37 



Monocbirus hispidns 9 +• 25 = 34 



III.— Cynoglossin^. 



Sympburns atricaiidus 10 + 42= 52 



Symphurus nigrescens 9 -f- 40 = 49 



Sy luphurus plagiiisa 9 + 38 = 47 



