PARALICHTHIN.E 149 



present in lateral line region. Uorsal (68) 75 ; commencing above anterior nostril of 

 blind side and in front of eye. Anal (48) 55. Pectoral of ocular side with 10 rays, 

 length if in that of head. Caudal pointed (?) ; caudal peduncle more than twice 

 as deep as long. Pale brownish, speckled and spotted with darker ; median fins 

 spotted with dark brown. 



;.M. (N.H.) 91.5. 12.54. X }. 



Type. — United States National Museum. No. 49536. 

 Distribution. — West Indies, southwards to Bahia, Brazil. 

 Specimen Examined : 



II. CITHARICHTHYS SPILOPTERUS, Giinther. 



Citharichthys spilopterus (part), Giinther, 1S62, Cat. Fish., iv, p. 421. 



Citharichthys cayennensis, Bieeker, 1862, Versl. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, xiii, p. 427. 



Citharichthys guatimaUnsis , Bieeker, 1863, Versl. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, xv, p. 452 ; Bieeker, 1865, 



Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk.,ii, p. 73. 

 Hemirhombus fuscus, Poey, 1868, Repertorio Cuba, ii, p. 406; Poev, 1875, Enum. Pise. Cubens., p. 



138. 

 Citharichthys spilopterus, Jordan and Gilbert, 1883, Proc. U.S. Xat. Mus., v, (1882), p. 618 ; Jordan 



and Gilbert, 1883, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xvi, p. 817; Jordan and Goss, 1889, Rep. U.S. Cora. 



Fish., xiv, (1886), p. 276 ; Jordan and Evermann, 1898, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlvii (3), p. 2685 ; 



Evermann and Marsh, 1902, Bull. U.S. Com. Fish., xx, (1900), p. 326 ; Jordan and Dickerson, 



1908, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxxiv, p. 22 ; Ribeiro, 1915, Arch. Mus. nac. Rio de J., xvii, Hetero- 



somata, p. 15 ; Ribeiro, 1918, Arch. Mus. nac. Rio de J., xxi, p. 162 ; Metzelaar, 1919, Trop. 



Atlant. V'issch., p. 133 ; Parr, 1931, Bull. Bingham Ocean. Coll., iv (i), p. 21. 



Depth of body 2 to 2j in the length, length of head 3I to 3f . Head closely com- 

 pressed, its upper profile distinctly concave. Snout (in adults) longer than eye, 

 diameter of which is 5J to nearly 8 in length of head ; interorbital space narrow, a 

 little concave (in adults) ; upper eye very little in advance of lower, close to edge of 

 head. Maxillary extending to below posterior edge or hinder part of eye, length 

 2j to 2j in that of head ; lower jaw about twice in head. Gill-rakers of moderate 

 length, rather stout ; 10 to 13 on lower part of anterior arch. Scales feebly ctenoid on 



