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This species is very common on the sandy shores of our South Atlantie 
and Gulf States. Our numerous specimens are from Beaufort, Charles- 
ton, Pensacola, and Key West. 
The reasons for continuing to regard this species as the original 
Pleuronectes plagiusa of Linnzeus, are given under the head of Symphurus 
plagusia. 
If however, the name plagiusa be referred to the West Indian form 
or dropped as unidentifiable, the name fasciatus would then hold for 
this species. : 
The characters distinguishing elongatus, atricauda, plagusia, plagiusa, 
pusillus, and diomedeanus are of slight value, and doubtless all will 
ultimately prove to be varieties of a single one, the coloration of the fins 
being more marked in southern specimens. 
A specimen nearly six inches long collected at Beaufort, N. C., by 
Prof. O. P. Jenkins seenis referable to pusillus rather than to the typi- 
cal plagiusa. It is highly mottled in coloration, the body and fins being 
profusely speckled and blotched with blackish besides 9 or 10 rather 
distinct cross-bands. D.85, A. 72. Seales about 80. Depth 34 in 
length. 
Another large specimen 7 inches long from the Florida Keys is in the 
museum at Cambridge. This has: D. 82, A. 72, lat. 1.76. Depth 3 in 
length. Color brown almost plain, except that the fins are mottled, 
especially posteriorly; candal fin not black. 
If these two specimens are really typical of Symphurus pusillus, it 
probably cannot be separated as a species from 8S. plagiusa. 
The form called diomedeanus is known to us from the description 
only. It is certainly very similar to S. plagiusa. Perhaps it is identical 
with our Key West specimens of the latter. These are very pale, and 
nearly plain gray, as would be expected in fishes taken from the coral 
sands. 
133. SYMPHURUS PIGER. 
Aphoristia pigra Goode & Bean, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xiii, 5, 1886, 154 (St. Kitts, 
Key West, Cedar Keys, in about 250 fathoms), 
Habitat.—West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, in deep water. 
This species is known to us from the original description. It is evi- 
dently a better-defined species than are most of the others. 
134. SYMPHURUS NEBULOSUS. 
Aphoristia nebulosa Goode & Bean, Bull, Mus. Comp. Zool., xix, 1883, 192 (Gulf Stream, 
off the coast of Carolina). 
Acedia nebulosa Jordan, MSS. 
Habitat—Gulf Stream. ‘ 
This species is known from the original account only. The deserip- 
tion would indicate a species considerably unlike those forming the rest 
