2706 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



Color grayish and brownish, with a siibuietallic luster upon the scales 

 when examined separately ; the denticulations of the scales dark and prom- 

 inent, giving a clouded general aspect; some of the smaller specimens 

 with large, irregular, brownish lilotches above, and a dark subcircular 

 blotch near the root of the tail, its diameter twice eye; colorless below. 

 (Goode»fe Beau.) West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, in deep water; a well- 

 defined species, (piger, sluggish.) 



Aphoristia pigra, Goode & Bean, Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, xii, 5, 154, 1886, St. Kitts, in 



about 250 fathoms (Coll. Blake) ; Goode &. Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 460, 1896. 

 SympMirus piger, .Ioedan & Goss, Review riounders and Soles, 326, 1889. 



3079. STMPHUEUS MARGINATUS (Goode & Bean). 



Head 5^ in total length; depth U. D. 96 to 100; A. 8t) or 87; ventral 4; 

 scales 88 to 90 ; eye 4.V in head; snout 4^. Body slender, lanceolate; mouth 

 moderate, oT)lique, curved, its angle below front of pupil of upjier eye; 

 dentition feeble; eyes moderate, close together, the upper very slightly in 

 advance; nostril in a long slender tube, midway between lower eye and 

 tip of snout ; scales moderate, strongly and sharply denticulate, not keeled ; 

 origin of dorsal above posterior margin of upper eye ; anal scarcely so 

 high as dorsal ; median caudal rays short. Color in life, reddish gray, much 

 speckled with brown ; belly bluish gray ; bases and membranes covering 

 fin rays dark lirown; caudal abruptly pale; tips of dorsal and anal rays 

 and some of the membrane covering caudal rays vermilion. West Indies, 

 in deep water. Described from a specimen, 102 mm. in length, collected 

 by the Blake at Station CLXXXI, in 321 fathoms. (Goode & Bean.) (mar- 

 ginatus, edged.) 



Aphoristia marginata, Goode Sl Bean, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoo!., xii, No. 5, 153, 1886, off St. 



Vincent (Coll. Blake) ; Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 459, fig. 376, 1896. 

 Si/mphurus marginatun, Jordan & Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 323, 1889. 



3080. SYMPHURUS ATRAMEXTATUS, Jordan & Bollman. 



Head 4| to 5 ; depth 3i to 3|. D. 92 to 95 ; A. 75 to 78 ; scales 95 to 100, 

 38 in a cross series. Body more elongate than in S. atricaudus. Eyes larger, 

 the upper in advance of lower, vertical diameter of each 3^ to 4 in head. 

 Cleft of mouth somewliat more curved than in S. atricandua, otherwise 

 similar. Scales larger than in S. atricaudus; spines on posterior margin 

 not so strong. Ventral fins (measured from angle of gill opening) 2j to 3 

 in head. Color light brown, irregularly barred and marbled with darker; 

 several irregular grayish bars most distinct on posterior parts, a distinct 

 narrow, dark bar behind gill opening; anterior part of dorsal and anal fin 

 pale, posterior dark ; anterior part with 4 to 7 dusky oblique areas, pos- 

 terior part with 3 to 6 roundish inky-black spots ; caudal black, narrowly 

 tipped with white; each scale with a narrow dark edge. Length about 

 ii inches. Pacific Ocean oft" Colombia, in water of moderate depth ; com- 

 mon. Eclated to Sipuplmnis atricaiidiis (Jordan & Gilbert), but distin- 

 guished by having 3 to G black oblong blotches ou posterior part of dorsal 



