Jordan a7id Evervianii. — Fishes of North America. 2873 



iu the 2 species is quite different. In the single known specimen of P. 

 woolmani the number of gill rakers given is 5 + 11, which makes it proba- 

 ble that the present species is not the same. The more striking difference 

 between P. adspeistis and P. simdofv lies in the scales, which in the latter 

 are cycloid, while in tlie true P. adspersus they are strongly toothed as 

 stated by Steindachner. The specimens from Callao referred by us in the 

 text to adspersus belong to that species, but they are not original types of 

 adsperism, belonging to the later collections of Agassiz and Steindachner. 



Paralichthyt sinaloce, Jordan &, Abbott MS., new si)ecie.s, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico. 

 (Type. No. 2930, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mns. Coll. Hopkins Exped. to Mazatlan.) 



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1009(a). PLATYP(EC1LDS QUITZEOENSIS, B. A. Bean. 



Head3A; depth 2i; eye 3:^ in head ; snout 4; interorbital width 2§. D. 

 13; A. 13; scales 30, 10. Body compressed, back elevated, head small and 

 depressed, fiat on top ; snout short. Mouth small, cleft oblique, the lower 

 jaw heavy, projecting; teeth conic, those in upper jaw in an irregular 

 series, those below verj- small, apparently irregularly arranged and close- 

 set. Origin of dorsal fin in advance of that of anal, midway between tip 

 of upper jaw and end of caudal rays, the first ray of anal being under 

 sixth dorsal ray. Color in alcohol light brown, with traces of darker on 

 back; interorbital space and edge of scales dark brown; 3 dark bars on 

 posterior part of body, the first extending from median line to origin of 

 anal, the second from median line to end of anal base, the third midway 

 between end of anal and origin of caudal; 2 dark spots on end of caudal 

 peduncle ; fins all pale. Lake Quitzeo, Michoacan, Mexico. Only the 

 typo known. 



Platypcecilus quitzeoensis, B. A. Bean, Proc. F. S. Xat. Mns. 1898, 540, with text figure, 

 Lake Quitzeo, Michoacan, Mexico. (Type, No. 48209. Coll. p;. W. Nelson.) 

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