9G4 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY — IV. 
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Family 120 (6).— CHIASMODONTID^. 
We are indebted to Professor Gill for tbe following note on the re- 
lationships of Cliiasmodon: 
“ The genus Cliiasmodon has no affinity with the Gadidce, but is nearly 
related to some forms included by Dr. Giiuther in the heterogeneous 
group designated as the family TracMnidce. It should apparently be 
isolated as the type of a xieculiar family, which may be x)rovisioually 
detiued as follows : 
“ Acanthopterygiaus with a short first dorsal of slender spines; a 
long second dorsal and anal; ventrals normal (I, 5) and thoracic; mouth 
very deeply cleft ; upper jaw not protractile, covered by an integument 
in common with the snout anteriorly; the opercular apparatus very ob- 
lique and reduced. 
“ This family is x^erhaps as nearly allied to the Clicenichthyid(e as to 
any other.” {Gill MSS.) 
Page 816. Instead of Citharichthys aramaca read : 
1!J5G. C. psaHiiBlMS (Goode & Bean) J. & G. 
Instead of the synonymy in the text read: 
{JJemirhomJjus jicctidus Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Phila. 1882,414.) 
The known siiecimens are from Pensacola, Florida. 
After Citharichthys pcctiilws add: 
1256 (b). C. ©celBiatJas (Poey) J. & G. 
Light brownish; head, body, and fins everywhere finely mottled and 
blotched with whitish and dusky. Body moderately elongate. Mouth 
small, very oblique, the maxillary extending to opposite middle of eye, 
its length 2^ in head. Teeth rather small, unequal, some of the upxier 
almost canine like, in two rows above and one below; eye 4 in head; 
iuterorbital area rather broad, concave, its width § length of eye. Dorsal 
rather low, its anterior rays beginning on right (blind) side. Caudal 
rounded, its length | head; left xiectoral filamentous, nearly as long as 
head. Ventrals short, the left ventral on abdominal ridge. Lateral 
line without curve. Accessory scales greatly develox)ed (as in the 
genus Platojihrys, which this species much resembles). Head 3f ; dexJth 
2^. D. 88; A. 70; Lat. 1. about 60 ([lores of blind side). 
{Hippoglosms oceUatns Poey, Mem. Cuba, ii, 314, 1860 : Hemirhomius ocellatus Poey, 
Syn. Pise. Cub. 407:? Ilemirhombus aramaca GUnther, iv, 422.) 
