FISHES COLLECTED BY BAHAMA EXPEDITION. gj 



About eight miles south of Sand Key Light; near 120 

 fathoms. 



Leptophidium cervinum G. & B., 1885, P. U. S., Mus., vin, 

 422. 



Rufous with puncticulations of black, and with a series of 

 eight to ten or more faint spots of light color, hardly as large 

 as the eye, above the median line of the flank, from the upper 

 angle of the opercle backward. Edges of vertical fins blackish. 



Nearly eight miles south of Sand Key Light; about 120 

 fathoms. 



Fierasfer dubius Put., 1874, P* B. S. N. H., 344. 



Tortugas. 

 Platophrys ocellatus. 



Rhombus ocellatus Ag., 1S29, Spix. Pise, 85, pi. 46. 

 D. 76-83; A. 57-62; V. 6; P. 11 upper, 9 lower; LI. 78; 

 Ltr. 30. 



Bahama Banks; Tortugas. 



Hemirhombus aramaca. 



Plcuronectes aramaca Cuv., 1829, R. An., 11, 341. 



The formula given this fish by Giinther is D. 85; A. 65; 

 LI. 70. From some of these examples we find it to be about 

 D. 81; A. 67; V. 6; P. upper 11, lower 9; LI. 56; Ltr. i8 + iS- 



Off Key West. 



Monolene sessilicauda Goode, 1SS0, P. U. S. Mus., 338. 



D. 104; A. 84; V. 6; P. 11 upper, o lower; LI. 93; Ltr. 

 22+24. 



The description of the coloration given by Goode (" Color 

 on the left side ashy brown, with numerous more or less dis- 

 tinct darker brown spots. On the blind side white. Pectoral 

 blackish, with traces of lighter transverse bands,") applies 

 to deep sea specimens. As if they had lived within reach of 

 the light, in shoaler water, Professor Nutting's specimens 

 are much more distinctly marked. They are greyish brown, 

 with numerous spots of darker to blackish over head and body, 

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