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dd. Dorsalrays, LOS ; anal rays, 80 ; pectoral short ; interorbital space 2£ in head ; 

 depth 14 in length; scales 91; body deep; color (specimen 4f inches 

 long) grayish, ranch spotted and mottled with whitish ; no blue (in 



young example) Eixipticus, 42. 



cc. Anterior profile of head strongly concave before interorbital area, the project- 

 ing snout leaving a marked re-entrant angle above it. 

 (i. Mouth not very small; the maxillary 3 in head; head 3£ in length; depth 

 2; D.95; A. 70; lat. 1. 90. Teeth small, in an irregular double series in 

 each jaw; color dark olive, with many rings, curved spots, and small 

 round dots of sky-blue edged with darker on body, these largest near 

 middle of sides, where some are as large as the eye ; three obscure dark 

 blotches on straight part of lateral line ; head and vertical fins with 

 sharply defined blue spots, which are mostly round ; spots on opercles, 

 larger and curved; pectorals with dark bars; vertebra? 9-f-30 = 39. 



Luxatus, 43. 

 gg. Mouth small ; the maxillary 3f in head ; head 3£ ; depth If ; D. 86 to 88 ; 

 A. 62 to 07 ; lat. 1. 80; teeth very small, biserial above; color highly 

 varigated with different shades of gray, the pale blotches rounded, very 

 irregular in size and position; no blue spots; no black spots along 

 lateral line: a large whitish cloud between the eyes. 



Leopardinus, 44. 



37. PLATOPHRYS PODAS. 



Rhomboides Rondelet, De Piscibus, 1554. 



Pleuronectes podas Delaroche, "Ann. Mus., xiii, 354, tab. 24, tig. 14, 1809." 



Rhomboidichthys podas Giinther, Cat. Fish., iv, 432, 1862. (Sicily.) Vinciguerra, Ri- 

 sultati Ittiologici del Violante, 1883, 106. Emery, Contribuzioni all' Ittiologi, 

 405. (Interesting discussion of larval forms.) 



Bothus podas Steindachner, Ichthyol. Bericht., 1868, Sechste Fortsetzung, p. 51. (Bar- 

 celona., Cadiz, Gibraltar, Santa Cruz de Teneriff'e.) 



Solea rhomboide Rafinesque, Indice, 1810, 52 (after Rondelet ). 



Bothus rhomboides Bonaparte, Catologo Metodico, 1836, 49. 



I'lcuronccles argus Risso, Ichth. Nice, 1810, 317 (not of Gmeliu). 



Pleuronectes mancus Risso, Ichth. Nice, 1810, 317 (not of Broussonet, whose species 

 was from the Pacific Ocean = Platophys mancus). 



Rhomboidichthys mancus Giinther, iv, 432, and of many European writers. 



Rhombus diaphanus Rafinesque, 1814 (larval form). Ricchiardi, "Soc. Toscana Sci. 

 Nat., 1881." 



Rhombus candklissimus Risso, Europe Meridionale, iii, 253, 1826 (larval form). 



Rhombus gesneri Risso, Europe Me"rid., 1826, iii, 254. 



Rhombus hcterophthalmus Bennett, " Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc, 1831, 147." 



Rhombus madeirensis Lowe, "Proc. Zool. Soc, 1833, 143." (Madeira.) 



Peloria hecJceli Cocco, " Alcuni Pesci del mar di Messina," 1844, 20 (larval form). 



? Coccolus annectens (Bonaparte) Cocco, 1. c. (larva). 



Rhombus serratus Valenciennes, "Webb &. Berthelot, lies Canar. Poiss., 82, pi. 18, 

 fig. 1," lS35-'50. 



Pleuronectes cuspidaius "Machado, Catalogo, 26" (fide Steindachner). 



Habitat. — Mediterranean fauna. 



This species is not rare in the Mediterranean and adjacent islands. 

 The specimens examined by us are from Genoa and Fayal. The two 

 species mentioned by numerous authors under the names of podas and 

 mancus have been shown by Dr. Steindachner to be the two sexes of 

 the same fish, while Dr. Emery has shown that the translucent fish, 



