878 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
man.) Perhaps a local variety of B. acldeyi Garman, a species described 
from Yucatan Banks. 
(Garman, Bull. Mas. Comp. Zool. xi, 235, 1881.) 
53 (c). R. plBitotiia Garman. 
Brown, the adults purplish, with irregular transverse series of ill- 
defined, often continent brown spots, besides some white spots ; tail with 
light and dark bands; dorsals dark; lower surface white. Disk broader 
than long, snbqnadrangnlar, rounded in front; snout forming a very 
blunt angle; tail half longer than disk; rostral cartilage short, not ex- 
tending to the tip of the snout. Width of mouth half its distance from 
snout. Teeth in 32 series. Eyes large, their length more than inter- 
orbital width. Bade and tail covered with small, close-set, stellate 
spines, the points slender, compressed, directed backwards. A close 
series of large spines along the middle line of back and tail; a supra- 
orbital row, and a single spine on each side of back of head ; a series 
of about five on each side of shoulder-girdle, in front of which are one 
or two more; two series on each side of tail. Lower parts smooth. 
Deep water; otf coast of South Carolina. [Garman.) 
(Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. xi, 230,^1881.) 
On page 42, instead of Baia coopa'i, read: 
54. R. binociBinta Grd. 
The synonymy given to “ B. hinoculata ” on page 44 should be trans- 
ferred to this species, the original ^^Mnocnlata” being the young, and 
‘‘^cooperV' the adult, of the same species. 
On page 43, instead of Baia hinoculata, read: 
56. R. iiBortiata Jordan & Gilbert. 
For the synonymy given on page 44 substitute the following: 
(Rata inornaia Jor. & Glib. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 457 and 1881, 74.) 
Var. inennis is also described in loc. cit. 1881, 74. 
On page 45, after Baia stellulata, add: 
57 (5). R. parniifcra Bean. 
Olive brown above, with numerous faint light blotches, two of which 
are larger than the rest. Disk considerably broader than long; tip of 
snout slightly projecting; interorbital width 34 in distance from snout 
to eye; tail as long as distance from its root to eye. Teeth in 27 rows. 
Snout, supraoccipital region, and whole margin of pectorals and ven- 
trals, covered with small prickles, as is also an area on tail; back and 
