330 FISHES FROM BRAZIL JORDAN. 



counted, their number about tweuty-six. Three lateral lines, the i^ores 

 sparse and with slight fringes; the middle row obscure with the pores 

 wide apart. Teeth very blunt. General aspect of Batraehus. 



PLEURONECTID.E. 

 102. Syacium micrurum (Rauzaui). 



Five specimens, similar to Cuban specimens, called Hemirhombus ocel- 

 lafns by Poey. 



1-03. Paralichthys isosceles (.sp. nov.). 



Three adult and one young specimen. Allieil to Fdrulichthys patagoni- 

 cus Jordan. 



Head 3| in length, depth 2:^,; scales 88 to 90 ; dorsal 84; anal m. 

 Length of types 5 to 11 inches {U. S. :Nat. Mas.) 



Body ovate, moderately compressed; eyes large, 5 in head, separated 

 by a narrow, nearly or quite naked ridge, not one- fifth diameter of eye ; 

 teeth slender and sharp, the anterior enlarged but much less so than 

 usual in Parnlichtliys ; mouth rather large ; maxillary scaly, 2^ in head ; 

 caudal double truncate, the middle rays li in head ; pectorals 1 1 in head ; 

 veutrals 3i ; scales finely ciliated; gill rakers 1 + 8 or 1 + 9, short and 

 thick; longest gill raker less than one-third of eye. Curve of lateral 

 line three and one half times in straight part, the arch much longer 

 than high. 



Color grayish brown, more or less mottled with darker; snout and 

 lower jaw with dark spots. A vague darker spot just above bend in 

 lateral line; another behind pectoral. Three large black ocelli in the 

 form of an isosceles triangle, the hindmost on lateral line just before 

 end of dorsal; the others one above the other below the lateral line, 

 and near the outline of the body. Fins all more or less speckled or 

 mottled with dark; the ventral blackish with two or three small inky 

 spots; eyes not speckled. 



104. VERECUNDUM RASILE, gen. & sp. nov. (allied to Hinpofjlos^ina). 



One specimen. 



Head 4f in length, depth 2:1; dorsal 87 ; anal G9; scales 90. Length 

 of type (U. S.jSTat. Mus.) 10 inches. Eyes and color on the left side; 

 body oblong, elliptical, its outlines regular, its substance rather firm; 

 caudal peduncle distinct, about as long as deep; head very small, 

 little longer than deep; mouth much smaller than in related species, the 

 maxillary reaching to below middle of eye, 2^ In head, and about half 

 longer than eye; teeth all small, bluntish, larger on the blind side of 

 upper jaw where they are irregularly biserial; teeth of lower jaw and 

 eyed side of upper, slender and short, subequal, nearly uniseriai; g ipe 

 oblique, nearly straight, the chin scarcely projecting ; eyes large, 3^ in 

 head, separated by a narrow naked ridge; cheeks and opercles with 

 small scales; jaws and snout naked; gill rakers short and slender, 

 5+10, the largest about as long as pupil; dorsal low in front, becoming 



