250 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [26] 



large as eye, with white center, dark iris, narrow, dark margin, and a brown en- 

 circling outline, these arranged in an isosceles triangle, the apex on the lateral 

 line, the others before it and distant from the lateral line a distance equal to 

 their own diimeter. D. 69, A. 56, Lat. 1, with 48 pores in straight part.] (Goode $• 

 Bean) Dilecta, 22. 



21. ANCYLOPSETTA QUADROCBLLATA. 



Ancylopsetta quadrocellata Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1864, p. 224 (Pensacola). 



(Not Platessa quadrocellata Storer). 

 Pseudorhombus quadroceilatus Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1878, p. 370 



(Beaufort). 

 Purallclitlujs ommatus Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, p. 616 (Charleston). 



Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., p. 824, 1882. Jordan & Swaiu, Proc. U. 



S. Nat. Mus., 1884, p. 234 (Cedar Keys). 



Habitat. — South Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. 



This species is not rare along the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts of 

 the United States. On referring- the species to the genus Paraliclithys 

 it became necessary to change the specific name quadrocellatus, pre- 

 occupied in the latter genus. We, however, now consider it best to 

 retain Ancylopsetta as a group distinct from Paraliclithys. 



22. ANCYLOPSETTA DILECTA. 



Notosema dilecta Goode & Bean, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xix, 193, 1883 (Gulf Stream, 

 off the coast of South Carolina). 



Ancylopsetta dilecta Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. A., 1885, 134. 



Paraliclithys stigmatias Goode, Nat. Hist. Aqnat. Anim., 1884, 182 (name only, by in- 

 advertence for dilectus). 



Habitat. — Gulf Stream. 



This species is known from the original types obtained in the deep 

 waters (75 fathoms) of the Gulf Stream, off the Carolina coast. 



Genus XII.— PHRYNOEHOMBUS. 



Phrynorhoinbus Giinther, Catal. Fishes Brit. Mus., iv, 414, 1862 (unimaculatus). 



Type : Rhombus unimaculatus ~Risso=Pleuronectes regius Bonnaterre. 



This genus is allied to Zeugopterus, from which it differs chiefly in the 

 separation of the ventral and anal fins. It is, in our opinion, worthy 

 of separation. But a single species is kuown. The peculiar flannel-like 

 character of the scales is similar to that of Mojiocliirus hispidus. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES OF PHRYXORIIOMBUS. 



a. First ray of dorsal produced in a filament, about one-third as long as head ; first 

 ray of pectoral sometimes filamentous ; scales small, each with about four long spin- 

 ules ; eyes moderate, separated by a high, narrow scaly ridge ; snout short, abruptly 

 projecting ; gill-rakers short, about X + 10 ; mouth curved, the maxillary not quite 

 half head. Depth, 2 in length ; head 3£ ; D.78 to 79, A. 67, Lat. 1. 70 ; vertebrae 10+25 

 =35 ; color, dark gray, with dusty marbliugs and black spots, one at the end of the 

 curve of the lateral line; a reddish ocellus edged with black on middle of tail; fins 

 much blotched Regius, 23. 



