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ANALYSIS OF SPECIES OF AZEVIA. 
a. Scales quite small, about 75 in the lateral line, ctenoid, and adherent. Body rather 
elongate. Mouth large, the maxillary about half length of head, the upper jaw 
somewhat booked over the lower; about three front teeth in upper jaw, enlarged 
and hook-shaped ; canines strong. Anterior profile gently and evenly convex. 
Eyes large. Pectoral 1iin head. Head4inlength; depth 2j. D.95o0r96, A. 
76 to78. Scales 73 to 78. Vertebrie 33. Gill-rakers tubercle-like, broader than 
high. Color brownish, sprinkled with dark dots, and with some whitish rings; 
large vaguely-defined oval spots on head and body ; dorsal with five or six, anal 
WitGebhree) Garis’ SPOUd. (clea seen tes elem natn ies eile fenton ee PANAMENSIS, 50. 
50. AZEVIA PANAMENSIS. 
Citharichthys panamensis Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., iii, 62, 1875. (Panama.) Jor- 
dan & Gilbert, Bull. U.S. Fish Com., 1882, 108 and 111. (Panama.) Gilbert, 
Bull. U. S. Fish Com., 1882, p. 112. (Punta Arenas.) 
Fabitat.—Pacific coast of Central America. 
Our description of this species is taken from the specimens from Pan- 
ama in the museum at Cambridge, a part of the series of Dr. Steindach- 
ner’s original types. The species is apparently not uncommon on the 
west coast of Central America. 
Genus XXI.—CITHARICHTHYS. 
Citharichthys Bleeker, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Amsterd., xiii, Pleuron, 6, 1862, 
(Cayennensis = Spilopterus. ) 
Orthopsetta Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 330. (Sordidus.) 
Metoponops Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, 198. (Cooperi=Sordidus.) 
TypPE: Oitharichthys cayennensis Bleeker=Citharichthys spilopterus 
Giinther. 
This genus includes small flounders of weak organization, especially 
characteristic of the sandy shores of tropical America. 'The subgenus 
Orthopsetta includes species of more northern range and somewhat dif- 
ferent in form, and especially noteworthy as having an increased num- 
ber of vertebre. 
We are not certain that Citharichthys has priority over Orthopsetta, 
the two having the same ostensible date. 
ANALYSIS OF SPECIES OF CITHARICHTHYS, 
a. Vertebrx about 40; interorbital ridge sharply elevated; the head not closely com- 
pressed ; eyes large. (Orthopsetta Gill.) 
b. Dorsal rays 95; anal rays 77; lateral line 65 to 70; head 3} in length; depth 
24; eyes large, 34 in head, the interocular space scaly, concave, 4 
in eye; a sharp elevated ridge bounding the lower eye ; mouth not 
large; the maxillary 3 in head; teeth sharp, subequal anteriorly , 
smaller behind; lower pharyngeals narrow, each with a row of 
slender teeth; gill-rakers slender, close-set, 7-+--14; scales large, 
thin, deciduous, slightly ciliate; numerous accessory scales pres- 
ent; pectorals long, 14 in head; flesh soft. Color dull olive- 
brownish, the males with spots and blotches of dull orange, the dor- 
sal and anal blackish, similarly mottled with dull orange; females 
paler, nearly plain. Vertebriw, 11 -+- 29—=40-........SORDIDUS, 51. 
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