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length of eye; first rays of dorsal nearly on median line, their tips ranch ex- 

 serted ; pectoral fin in males 1J to 2 times length of head ; eye large, 4f in head ; 

 head3£; depth 2g ; D. 81 to 88, A. 63 to 70; vertebrae 10 + 26 = 36; color nearly 

 plain brown, with darker dots or mottlings, no ring-like spots or ocelli; fins 

 mottled; left pectoral barred; blind side sometimes wholly or partly dusky, 



especially in Northern specimens Papillosum, 46. 



bb. Scales rather small, 60 to 70 in the lateral line. 



c. Color dark brown, with many rings and spots of light gray and blackish, some 

 of the dark rings with a black central spot; a diffuse dusky blotch on lateral 

 line above pectoral, and oue near base of caudal peduncle ; fins with numerous 

 inky spots and dark markings ; blind side pale : scales small, firm, moderately 

 ctenoid ; eyes large, 4 in head, nearly even in front, the male with the inter- 

 orbital space deeply concave ; its width two-thirds the vertical depth of the eye; 

 female with intororbital area much narrower, with a more or less perfect median 

 groove ; its width about equal to depth of pupil ; maxillary 2£ to 3 in head ; the 

 outer teeth canine-like ; gill-rakers very short and thick, about X + 7 in num- 

 ber; head 3* in length ; depth, 2f; D. 87 to 92, A. 54 to 68; scales 65 to 70 

 pores; vertebrae 9 + 24 = 33 ; pectoral 1-J- in head in the female, reaching nearly 

 to base of caudal in the male Micrurum, 47. 



cc. Color light brown, with grayish and light bluish dots, some darker areas 

 and a few round brown spots ocellated with lighter; iuterorbital space with a 

 vertical brown bar bordered by lighter ; fins mottled and spotted ; iuterorbital 

 space in adult male broader than eye ; insertion of dorsal on blind side of head ; 

 pectoral fins in males about 3 in body; head, 4 in length; depth, 2-J ; D. 92, 

 A. 72, Lat. 1. 60; gill-rakers short and broad, X + 7; maxillary 2i iu head, its 

 tip scaly Latifrons, 48. 



ccc. Color light olive-brown, uearly uniform, the vertical fins with elongate dark 

 spots; eyes 4^ in head, the lower slightly advanced; iuterorbital space very 

 narrow, as broad as pupil (in both sexes?), somewhat concave; maxillary 2f 

 in head ; pectoral 1£ in head ; head 3| in length ; depth 2y ; D. 86, A. 69, Lat. 

 1. 58 Ovale, 49. 



45. SYACIUM CORNCJTUM. 



Bhomboidichihjs cornulus Gunther, Shore Fishes Challenger, 1880, 7, pi. 



Habitat. — Coast of Brazil, in deep water. 



This species is known from Giinther's description and figure. In 

 very young examples the conspicuous processes about the head are 

 undeveloped. 



46. SYACIUM PAPILLOSUM. 



Aramaca Marcgrave, Hist. Brasil., 1648, 181. 



rieuronectes papillosus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., x, 271, 1758 (based ou Marcgrave), and 



of the earlier copyists. 

 Aramaca papillosa Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 602 (synonymy confused with 



S. micrurum). 

 ? Pleuronectcs macrolepidotus Bloch, Auslandische Fische, vi, 25, tab. 190, 17d7 (and of 



some copyists) (apparently based on Marcgrave). 

 I'lcnronectes aramaca Donndorf, Beytrage zur xiii Ausgabe des Linnaeisehen Natur- 



systems, 1798, 386 (after Marcgrave). 

 Rhombus aramaca Cuvier, Regue Animal, ed. ii, 1827 (after Marcgrave). 

 Citharichthys aramaca Jordan and Gilbert. Synopsis Fish., X.A., 1882, 816. (Pensacola. ) 

 Rhombus soleceformia Agassiz, Spix Pise. Brasil., 8(5, tab. 47, 1829. (Atlantic Ocean.) 

 Wemirhombus soleceformis Gunther, Cat. Fish., iv, 42'!, 1862. (Copied.) 

 Aramaca solewformis Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886. 



