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DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW FLOVNDEBS— BEAN. 



vent, which is situated on blind side, its anterior rays scarcely produced. 

 Ventral of colored side much produced. Middle caudal rays long. 



Color in si)irit8 light brown ; three black spots on body, two along 

 back, and one near anal base; fins with dusky blotches; several verti- 

 cal stripes across eyes. 



GASTROPSETTA FBONTALTS. 



About one-half natural aize. 



The smaller specimen from station 2317 has D. G2; A. 52; Y. 6; P. i, 

 11. The gill-rakers short, broad laminte, 2+7. Teeth weak, uniserial. 

 Anterior rays of dorsal greatly produced, the third being one and one- 

 half times as long as the head. Tentrai of eyed side very long, ending 

 in a thread-like filament. Color as in the preceding. 



The example from station 2373 is 224 mm, long; its depth, 90 mm. 

 The ray formula is as follows: D. 60; A. 49; P. i, 10; V. 6; C. 15. The 

 vent is situated in a deep notch, which forms the front margin of the 

 abdomen, and not on the side, as in the other specimens. The color is 

 -darker than that of the Key West examples, being dark reddish-brown. 

 r)ody spotted and fins blotched as in the preceding. 



Type— No. 37608, U.S.N.M. 



Genus CYC LOPS ETTA, Gill. 



In the eleventh volume of these Proceedings* Dr. Gill gives the fol- 

 lowing diagnosis of a new genus of flounders, which he names Cyclop- 



setta : 



Psettiues with the body oblong rhombo-ovate, covered with regularly imbricated 

 moderate cycloid scales; lateral line nearly rectilinear on both sides; snout convex; 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xi, 1889, p. 601. 



