472 NEW SPECIES OF FISHES, GULF OF MEXICO. 



Besides the species above described as uew, the following- may be 

 worthy of mention : 

 7. Narcine brasiliensis (Olfers). 



Torpedo brasiliensis Olfers, Torped., p. 19, tab. ii, iig. 4 ; Dum^ril, Hist. Poiss., 



514, pi. ii, figs. 3 and 3a, 1865 (Antilles and Brazil); Gray, Cat. Chond. 



Brit. Mils., 102; Gunther, viii, 453, 1870 (Par^; Caribbean Sea; Cuba; 



Jamaica); Henle, Narcine, 31, tab. i, figs. 1 and 2, 1834 (Rio Janeiro); 



Miillerand Henle, Plag., 129; Kner, Novara, Fiscb., 418; Goode and Bean, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 240; Bean and Dresel, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mu8., 1884, 170; Jordan, Cat. Fisb. N. A., llT 1«85. 

 Torpedo bancroftii Griffitb, Cuvier, Animal Kingd., x, pi. 34, 649, 1834. 

 Karcine brasiliensis Dum^ril, Eev. Zool., 1852, 272. 

 Narcine brasiliensis corallina Garman, Bnll. Mus. Couip. Ziiol., xi, 234, 1881; 



Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, 877, 1882; Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



1884, 149; Jordan, Cat. Fisb. N. A., ii, 1885. 

 Narcine nigra, Duni6ril, Eev. Zool., 1852, 276 ; Dum^ril, Hist. Poise., 515, pi. 11, 



figs. 4 and 4a, 1865 (Brazil). 

 Torpedo pictiis Grouow, Cat. Fish, Ed. Gray, 13, 1854 (Antilles and American 



Ocean). 

 Narcine umbrosa Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 105, 147 (Key West); 



Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. A., 11, 1885. 



From an examination of the material at hand we are convinced that 

 the synonymy of this species should stand as here given. Three speci- 

 mens in the museum of the Indiana CTniversity show three distinct 

 styles of coloration, and no other constant differences being observable, 

 they would seem to be specimens of different ages of one and the same 

 species. 



Specimen No. 2987, S , ten inches long, from Key West, is one of the 

 two specimens upon which Dr. Jordan based his <lescription of If. um- 

 brosa. The coloration as then given by him and which is still verified 

 by the specimen before us is as follows : 



" Light brown ; tip of snout blackish ; a large black triangular area 

 before each eye, covering most of the front of the disk ; space between 

 the eyes pale ; space between the spiracles mostly pale ; a round black 

 blotch on median line behind this; around blotch behind and outward 

 from each spiracle; another near this on the outer edge of the disk ; 

 another behind this on the edge of the disk ; a large transversely ob- 

 long blotch in line with this on each side of the median line ; posterior 

 part of disk with a dark blotch near the edge ; a large black blotch 

 between angle of pectoral and ventral; veutrals each with two dusky 

 blotches, the posterior one on the claspers ; a dusky blotch on the back 

 of the tail between them, each dorsal in a distinct black cross blotch, 

 which extends up on the fins ; a dark blotch on the tip of each dorsal 

 and three on the caudal ; in all about thirty distinct dusky spots and 

 blotches above, all of them larger than the eye. There are also some 

 rows of dark dots, apparently the mouths of jiores, along each side of 

 the tail above, near its base, and along the sides of the disk." Pale 

 below; edge of pectorals dusky; ventrals showing slight traces of 

 dusky along the edge ; an irregular dark blotch on each side near the 

 posterior angle of the pectoral. 



