196 JOURNAL OF THE TRINIDAD 



A NEW TRINIDAD FLOUNDER, 



ON Page 39, No. 2, Vol. I of the Journal (June 1892) 

 appears a communication from the late Dr. J. F. Chittenden 

 with reference to two new Trinidad fishes. The Hon. Secretary 

 of the Club has now received the following description of one 

 of these fishes which has been named in honour of its find 

 the late Dr. Chittenden. The following is the description by 

 Mr. Barton A. Bean which appears in the proceedings of the 

 United States National Museum. Vol. xvii. — No. 1030. In 

 the original the description is acccompanied by a wood-cut. 



cyclopsetta ciiiTTENDENi, Bean, n. sp. 



On April 4, 1892, the Museum received from Dr. John F. 

 Chittenden, of the Victoria Institute, Port- of -Spain, Trinidad 

 Island, a single specimen of the species here described as new 

 and named in his honour. 



Diagnosis. — A single specimen. Extreme length, 197 mm. 

 (7| inches.) Greatest depth of body, not including vertical fins, 

 76 mm. (3 inches.) D. 82; A. ''>_'. t., 90 Gill-rakers 



8 + 3 to I, very short, tubercular, almost as broad as long. 



The length of the head is contained three and one-half times 

 in that of the body, and the depth of the body two and one-fifth 

 times in its length, without caudal. The diameter of the eye is 

 contained five times in the head's length. The mouth is widely 

 cleft, oblique, the jaws curved. The cleft of the mouth is contained 

 less than twice in the length of head. The teeth of both jaws 

 in a single series, those of the lower jaw are strong and sharp, 

 curved inward and backward ; those of the upper jaw are not so 

 large, and are very irregular in size. 



The ventral fins are well developed, that of the eyed side 

 being on the abdominal ridge, and about three-fourths as long 

 as the pectoral. The pectorals are half as long as the head, 

 their length equalling a little more than one-third of the body 

 depth ; posterior margin oblique. 



Color brown ; fins lighter, marked with blackish. Three 

 small faint blotches of black on the first half of the dorsal fin, 

 and three rather distinct blotches on the second half, the last 

 blotch extending to the caudal peduncle. Anal fin with three 

 black blotches situated as and similar to those of the dorsal fin. " 

 The ventral of the eyed side is blackish, that of the blind side 

 pale. Caudal fin with three black spots at its extremity. 

 Pectoral fin of colored side blackish ; quite a large blotch of 

 black on body under this fin. 



Type.—^o. 41100, U.S.N.} I. 



