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mens of the real Platophrys ocellafus (No. 11423, Rio Janeiro, Agassiz), 

 with a representative specimen of P. nebularis (No. 26147, from the Tor- 

 tugas, Florida), and are unable to find any differences. 



We adopt, therefore, the name Platophrys oeellatus for all, and regard 

 it as one of the widely-distributed flounder.'-:, like Etropus crossotus and 

 Githarichtliys spilop terus. 



41. PLATOPHRYS MACULIFER. 



? Pleuronectes maculiferus Poey, Mem., ii, p. 316, 1860. (Cicnfuegos.) 

 '? Rhomboidichthys maculiferus Poey, Synopsis, p. 408, 1868. Poey, Enum. Pis.Cub., p. 



139, 1875. 

 Platophrys ellipticus Jordan, Proc. U. S. Neat. Mus., 1886, 51 (Havana) (not of Poey ?). 

 We identify specimens taken by Dr. Jordan at Havana and by him 

 described as Platophrys ellipticus, with this species simply because we 

 cannot place them anywhere else. In the Museum of Comparative Zool- 

 ogy are other specimens similar to these, sent to Cambridge by Poey. 

 In several respects these species agree fairly with Poey's ellipticus, 

 but that species is said to have 104 dorsal rays. 



42. PLATOPHRYS ELLIPTICUS. 



? Pleuronectes ellipticus Poey, Mernorias, ii, 315, 1860. (Cuba.) 



? Bhomboidichthys ellipticus Giinther, iv, 434, 1862 (copied). Poey, Synopsis, 408, 1868. 

 Poey, Enumeratio, 139, 1875. 



Habitat. — West Indian fauna. 



Poey describes his PL ellipticus as having 104 dorsal rays. In none 

 of our other species does the number of these rays reach 100. Among 

 the specimens sent by Poey to the museum at Cambridge is one, 4f 

 inches long, which has 105 dorsal rays. We have therefore assumed 

 that the species to which this specimen belongs is the real ellipticus, and 

 that the one heretofore called ellipticus is Poey's maculifer. Both these 

 assumptions are open to considerable doubt. 



43. PLATOPHRYS LUNATUS. 



Solea lunata et punctata (the Sole) Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, tab. 27, 1725 (Baha- 

 mas). 



Pleuronectes lunatus Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. x, 269, 1758 (based on Catesby), and of the 

 various copyists. 



Rhomboidichthys lunatus Giinther, Cat. Fish., vol. iv, p. 433 (Jamaica). Poey, Synop- 

 sis, p. 408, 1868. 



Rhomboidichthys lunulatus Poey, Enum. Pis. Cub., p. 138, 1875. 



Platophrys lunatus Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 51 (Havana). 



Pleuronectes argus Bloch, Ichthyol., tab. 48, 1783. 



? Pleuronectes surinamensis Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 156 (Surinam) ; and of 

 copyists. 



Habitat. — West Indian fauna. 



This handsome and curiously colored species is not rare in the waters 

 of the West Indies. The specimens examined by us are from Cuba, 

 Sombrero, St. Thomas, and other localities in the West Indies. The 



