71 S XKW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Pitniliihthiis oiJhryas Jokdan & Gilbebt, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 822, 1883. 

 Parol irltth IIS (leutatns Goode, Fish & Fish. Ind. U. S. I, 178. 1884 (part); 



.FoKD.w. Cat. Fish. X. A. 134. 1885; Beax, 19th Rep. Comm. Fish. X. 



Y. 246, pi. II. fig. 2. 1890; Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 372, 1897; 



II. .AI. Smith. Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 108. 1898; Jordan & EVekmann. 



Bull. 47. U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 2629, 1898; IV, pi. CCCLXXIII, fig. 922. 



UKU); Beax. 52d Ann. Rep. X. Y. State Mus. 110, 1900. 



The depth of the body is contained two and one third times 

 in its h-n<;th. which is three and two thirds times the length of 

 ihr hrad. IU)dy oblong, moderately compressed; mouth wide 

 obli(iiie, the mandible very heavy and much projecting; eight to 

 10 teeth on side of lower jaw. the two anterior teeth very long; 

 anterior teeth of upper jaw strong, but smaller than those in 

 the lower jaw; the lateral teeth very small and close set; eyes 

 small, shorter than snout, about one sixth length of head, and 

 in adult as wide as the broad, flatfish, scaly interorbital area. 

 The latter is much narrower in the young. Scales small, cycloid ; 

 accessory scales few; gill rakers lanceolate, dentate, stoutish. 

 wide set, much shorter than eye, the longest two and one half 

 times as long as broad at base, five and one half in the maxil- 

 lary, about 2^10 in number; pectoral fin about as long as maxil- 

 lary, which extends beyond the eye, and is rather more than 

 half length of head; dorsal low, its anterior rays somewhat 

 exserted. but short; caudal double concave, the middle rays pro- 

 duced; anal spine obsolete; ventrals small; fins all scaly. 1>. 

 88 (85 to !):{); A. 00 (05 to 78); Lat. 1. about 100. 



lilackish olive, mottled and blotched with darker; in life light 

 lintwii; adults with numerous small white spots on body and 

 xeriical tins; sonu^times a series of larger white spots along 

 liases of (loisal aud anal; alout 14 ocellated dark spots on sides. 

 Iliese sonietinies incons]>icuous. but always present; a series of 

 l""i- ur live along dorsal base, and three or four along anal 

 base. Ilmse of the two series o])posite. and forming pairs; two 

 jtairs of sniallir. less distinel spols midway between these basal 

 Heri's aud lateral line auterim-ly, with a small one on lateral line 

 '" '"< "cuiei- Ix'twren iheiu; a large distinct spot on lateral line 

 bejiiiid uiiddle uT siijiiglii iMution; lins without the round dark 



bliilcheH. 



