362 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The following ennmeratioii of tlie radial formulae of eleven specimens 

 of Limamla ferriKjinea slioiild be placed on record: 



Certain individuals exhibit black spots instead of the ordinary mark- 

 ings of yellowish red; this may be sexual, but is more probably due to 

 the color of the bottom on which they live. Adult individuals almost 

 invariably exhibit markings of a lemon-yellow hue on tlie white under 

 side of the body, contiguous to the tail. 



The .synonymy of the species stands as follows: 



Limanda ferruginea, (Storer) Goode & Beau. 



Platism ferruginea, Stoker, Report on tlie lelitliyology au«l Herpetology of 



Massachusetts, 1639, p. 41, pi, 2. — DeKay, Zoology of New York, FisLes, 



1842, p. 297, pi. slviii, fig. 155. 

 Flcuronectes ferrugincus, GtJxxHER, Catalogue of tlie Fishes in the British 



Museum, iv, 1862, p. 447. 

 Myzopsetta ferruginea, Gill, Catalogue Fishes of Eastern Coast X. A. 18G1, 



p. 51 ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 18G4, p. 217. 

 Plafessa rostrata, H. E. Storer, Boston Jouru. Nat. Hist, vi, 1850, p. 2G8, 



pi. viii, fig. 2.— GtJXTiiER, op. eit. p. 447 (considers it to he allied to Plea- 



ronectes limanda). 

 Mgzoimfta roHirata, Gill, Catalogue Fishes of Ea.stern Coast N. A. 1661, p. 51. 

 Limanda rontrata, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 217. 



Limanda ferruginea is closely related to Limanda vulgaris., Gottsche, 

 from which it is distinguished by its shorter pectorals, smaller scales, 

 lower dorsal and anal fins, and the greater average number of rays in 

 those fins. It is certainly a strongly marked geographical subspecies, 

 and must for the present be regarded as a distinct species. 



December, 1878. 



OIV THE IDENTITV OF BRO«iUIUS AMEBICAIVIS, «BI.I., WITH 

 BROSTIir.S BRO.<«.lIE, (Mt'l.I.ER) WHITE. 



By G. BROlrl i\ OOODE and TARLETOIV H. BEAN. 



Dr. D. H. Storer, in his Eeport on the Ichthyology and Herpetology 

 of Massachusetts, published in 1830, catalogued the common cusk of 

 the Xew England coast under the name Brosmius vulgar is, considering 



