362 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The following enumeration of the radial formulae of eleven specimens 

 of Idmanda ferruginea should be placed on record: 



Cat. Xo. 



21020 



21902 

 21903 



Localitv. 



Dorsal 

 rays. 



Halifax, N.S 



do 



do 



do 



Gloucester, Mass . 

 do 



.do. 

 -do. 

 .do. 

 -do. 

 .do. 



85 

 81 

 79 

 85 

 83 

 87 

 80 

 82 

 83 

 73 

 76 



Aaal 



rays. 



65 

 59 

 57 

 63 

 63 

 66 

 60 

 61 

 61 

 58 

 59 



Pectoral rays. 



Eight. 



Left. 



Ventral 



rays. 



Caudal 

 rays. 



18 

 18 

 18 

 18 

 18 



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 indiAiduals almost 

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

 side of the body, contiguous to the tail. 



The synonymy of the species stands as follows : 



Limanda ferruginea, (Storer) Gootle & Bean. 



Platcssa ferruginea, Stoker, Report ou the lelitliyology and Herpetology of 



Massacliusetts, 1839, p. 41, pi. 2.— DeKay, Zoology of New York, Fishes, 



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

 Pleuronectes fci'rugincus, GCxther, Catalogue of the Fishes in the British 



Museum, iv, 1862, p. 447. 

 Myzopsctta ferruginea, Gill, Catalogue Fishes of Eastern Coast N. A. 1861, 



p. 51 ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila, 1864, p. 217. 

 Platcssa roatrata, H. R. Stoker, Boston Joum. Nat. Hist, vi, 1850, p. 268, 



pi. viii, fig. 2. — GuNTHER, op. cit. p. 447 (considers it to be allied to Pleti- 



ronectes limanda). 

 Myzopsetta rostrata, Gill, Catalogue Fishes of Eastern Coast N. A. 1861, p. 51. 

 Limanda rostrata, Gill, Pi-oc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 217. 



lAmanda ferruginea is closely related to Limanda vulgaris^ Gottsche, 

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

 lower dorsal and anal iins, 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. 



Decembei?,187S. 



ON THE 



BROSITIflVS BRO!>ilTIK:, (iaiJI.l.£R) WHITK. 



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By G. BROWW GOODS aM«l TARI.ET01V H. BEAIV. 



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

 of Massachusetts, published in 1839, catalogued the common cusk of 

 the JNew England coast under the name Brosmius vulgaris, considering 



