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DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW FLOUNDERS— BEAN. 



VOL. XVII. 



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. 



Fig. 3. 



CYCLOPSBTTA CHITTENDENI. 



Ahoiit one-half nntural size. 



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 

 si^ots at its extremity. Pectoral fin of colored side blackish ; quite a 

 large blotch of black on body under this fin. 



Type.— No. 44100, U.S.K.M. 



