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dd, Dorsal rays, 105; analrays, 80; pectoral short ; interorbital space 2? in head ; 
depth 1¢ in length; scales 91; body deep; color (specimen 43 inches 
long) grayish, much spotted and mottled with whitish; no blue (in 
VOUNCVOMAMIPIC) Mar seca nce wee cows scioe eos seisacwalae E cineca 42. 
ee. Anterior profile of head strongly concave before interorbital area, the project- 
ing snout leaving a marked re-entrant angle above it. 
g. Mouth not very small; the maxillary 3 in head; head 3} in length; depth 
2; D.95; A. 70; lat. 1. 90. Teeth small, in an irregular double series in 
each jaw; color dark olive, with many rings, curved spots, and small 
round dots of sky-blue edged with darker on body, these largest near 
middle of sides, where some are as large as the eye; three obscure dark 
blotches on straight part of lateral line; head and vertical fins with 
sharply defined blue spots, which are mostly round ; spots on opercles, 
larger and curved; pectorals with, dark bars; vertebra 9+30= 39. 
LUNATUS, 43. 
gg. Mouthsmali; the maxillary 34in head; head 3}; depth 13; D.&6 to 88; 
A. 62.-to 67; lat. 1. 80; teeth very small, biserial above; color highly 
varigated with different shades of gray, the pale blotches rounded, very 
irregular in size and position; no blue spots; no.black spots along 
lateral line; a large whitish cloud between the eyes. 
LEOPARDINUS, 44. 
37. PLATOPHRYS PODAS. 
Rhomboides Rondelet, De Piscibus, 1554. 
Pleuronectes podas Delaroche, ‘‘ Ann. Mus., xiii, 354, tab. 24, fig. 14, 1809.” 
Lhomboidichthys podas Giinther, Cat. Fish., iv, 432, 1862. (Sicily.) Vinciguerra, Ri- 
sultati Ittiologici del Violante, 1863, 106. Emery, Contribuzioni all’ Ittiologi, 
405. (Interesting discussion of larval forms.) 
Bothus podas Steindachner, Ichthyol. Bericht., 1868, Sechste Fortsetzung, p.51. (Bar- 
celona, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Santa Cruz de Teneriffe. ) 
Solea rhomboide Rafinesque, Indice, 1810, 52 (after Rondelet). 
Bothus rhomboides Bonaparte, Catologo Metodico, 1836, 49. 
Pleuronectes argus Risso, Ichth. Nice, 1810, 317 (not of Gmelin). 
Pleuronectes mancus Risso, Ichth. Nice, 1810, 317 (not of Broussonet, whose species 
was from the Pacific Ocean = Platophys mancus). 
Rhomboidichthys mancus Giinther, iv, 452, and of many European writers. 
Rhombus diaphanus Rafinesque, 1814 (larval form). Ricchiardi, ‘‘Soc. Toscana Sci. 
Nat., 1881.” 
Rhombus candidissimus Risso, Europe Méridionale, iii, 253, 1826 (larval form). 
Rhombus gesneri Risso, Europe Mérid., 1826, iii, 254. 
Rhombus heterophthalmus Bennett, ‘ Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc., 1831, 147.” 
Rhombus madeirensis Lowe, ‘‘ Proc. Zool. Soc., 1833, 143.” (Madeira. ) 
Peloria heckeli Cocco, ‘‘ Aleuni Pesci del mar di Messina,” 1844, 20 (larval form). 
? Coccolus annectens (Bonaparte) Cocco, 1. c. (larva). 
Rhombus serratus Valenciennes, ‘‘Webb & Berthelot, Iles Canar. Poiss., 82, pl. 18, 
fig. 1,” 1835-50. 
Pleuronectes cuspidatus ‘‘ Machado, Catalago, 26” (fide Steindachner). 
Habitat.—Mediterranean fauna. 
This species is not rare in the Mediterranean and adjacent islands. 
The specimens examined by us are from Genoa and Fayal. The two 
species mentioned by numerous authors under the names of podas and 
mancus have been shown by Dr. Steindachner to be the two sexes of 
the same fish, while Dr. Emery has shown that the translucent fish, 
