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Byes largo, separated by a narrow, sluiri) ridge, wliicli, in specimen 

 examined, is not so wide as the pnpil. Anteriorly the interorbital ridge 

 is widened, and has a second smaller ridge above the lirst. Eyes even 

 in front, their diameter 4 in head. 



Month small, the maxillary reaching to below middle of eye, its length 

 3 in head. Teeth small, slender, in two rows above, in one row below, 

 the onter series in npper jaw somewhat eidarged, bnt hardly canine-like. 

 Snout, 43 in head. Gill-rakers very short, hardly twice as long as broad, 

 not one fifth length of eye. 



Lateral line nearly straight. Scales along lateral line with many ac- 

 cessory scales,' those on other parts of body with very few or none. 

 Fins scaly; snout naked; fins rather low. Pectoral, two- thirds length 

 ,of head, its upper rays slightly filamentous. 



This specimen is perhaps a female. If so, the male may have the 

 pectoral longer and the interorbital area broader, or even concave, but 

 this is to be doubted, as in this specimen the upper ridge becomes fully 

 confluent with the lower above the middle of the eye. 



Vertebnie, 9 -f 24. 



This species, of which I obtained three specimens in the markets of 

 Havana, has been left unnoticed by Poey, who did not distinguish be- 

 tween it and his Hemirhombus fuscus, which is Citharichthys spilopterus. 

 It is closely related to Hemirliomhus ovalis Giinther, from the Pacific 

 coast of Mexico and Panama. • 



194. Citharichthys spilopterus Giiuther. Lenguado. 



( Hemirhomhus fiisciis Poey . ) 



Very common. Not distinguishable from Pacific coast specimens. I 

 have no doubt that this is 'Poey^s fuscus, but the description of the teeth 

 and the count of the scales of the lateral line do not agree with my 

 specimens. I find no inner row of teeth in the upper jaw and the scales 

 are from 45 to 50. 



SOLEIDiE. 



195. Aphoristia plagiusa LiniiiPus. AcMia. 



{AphorinUa ornafa Poey.) 



Common. As has been already elsewhere stated in these Proceed- 

 ings, there is some reason for thinking this species the original Pleura- 

 nectes plagiusa of Linnaeus. The original type of Linnaeus, as stated by 

 Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1885, 196, may not have come 

 from the Carolina coast. It is a slenderer fish than the one found on 

 our coast [A. fasciata Holbrook), with larger scales, about 77 in a longi- 

 tudinal series. A specimen before me,' from Cuba, has 77 scales in the 

 lateral line, and the dejjth 4 in length. I venture, therefore, to identify 

 with this Cuban fish the j:>/ar/iMsa of Linna'us. 



Omitting the aberrant A. nehidosa Goode & Bean from the Gulf 

 Stream, a species with keeled scales, and probably the type of a dis- 



