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Family 120 (6).— CHIASMODONTID^. 



We are indebted to Professor Gill for the following note on the re- 

 lationships of Chiasmodon: 



" The genus Chiasmodon has no affinity with the Gadidw, but is nearly- 

 related to some forms included by Dr. Gunther in the heterogeneous 

 group designated as the family Tracliinidce. It should apparently be 

 isolated as the type of a peculiar family, which may be provisionally 

 defined as follows : 



" Acanthopterygians with a short first dorsal of slender spines; a 

 long second dorsal and anal; vent rals normal (I, 5) and thoracic; mouth 

 very deeply cleft ; upper jaw not protractile, covered by an integument 

 in common with the snout anteriorly; the opercular apparatus very ob- 

 lique and reduced. 



" This family is perhaps as nearly allied to the Chcenichthyidce as to 

 any other." {Oill MSS.) 



Page <S16. Instead of Citharichthys aramaca read : 

 1356. C. psBlitlMS (Goocle & Bean) J. &, G. 

 Instead of the synonymy in the text read: 



{JJcmirkombns pwlulus Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Phila. 1882,414.) 



The known specimens are from Pensacola, Florida. 



After Citharichthys pcetulus add : 

 1256 (b). C. occBBatMS (Poey) J. & G. 



Light brownish; head, body, and fins everywhere finely mottled and 



blotched with whitish and dusky. Body moderately elongate. Mouth 



small, very oblique, the maxillary extending to opposite middle of eye, 



its length 2^ in head. Teeth rather small, unequal, some of the upper 



almost canine like, in two rows above and one below; eye 4 in head; 



iuterorbital area rather broad, concave, its width § length of eye. Dorsal 



rather low, its anterior rays beginning on right (blind) side. Caudal 



rounded, its length f head; left pectoral filamentous, nearly as long as 



head. Ventrals short, the left ventral on abdominal ridge. Lateral 



hue without curve. Accessory scales greatly developed (as in the 



genus Platophrys, which this species much resembles). Head 3f ; depth 



2i. D. 88; A. 70; Lat. 1. about 60 (pores of blind side). 



{Hlppodlosims occUatns Poey, Mem. Cuba, ii, ;U4, 1860 : Hemirhombus ocellatua Poey. 

 Syn. Pise. Cub. 407:? Hemirhombus aramaca GiiuthePj iv, 422.) 



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