2554 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



vent under sixteenth ray of second dorsal. Color light brown; lower 

 parts minutely dotted ; dorsals with narrow dark margins ; caudal with 

 a broad dark margin; anal with a narrow dark margin in its posterior 

 third; roof of mouth and interior of gill cavity dark brown. Deep water 

 of the Gulf of Mexico. (Goode & Beau.) (cirratus, bearing cirri.) 



Phycis cirratus, GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 358, 1896. Gulf of Mexico at Lat. 

 29 03' 15" N., Long. 88 16' W. (Type, No. 39059. Coll. Albatross.) 



2926. UROPHYCIS FLORIDANUS, Bean & Dresel. 



Head 4 in body; depth 6. D. 13-57; A. 49; scales about 120; eye 6 in 

 head ; maxillary 2 ; height of first dorsal 24^ ; middle caudal rays 2. Body 

 rather elongate, compressed, head subconic; mouth large, the maxillary 

 reaching to below posterior margin of orbit; upper jaw and snout some- 

 what projecting beyond lower; small cardiform teeth, in narrow bands 

 on jaws and vonier; barbel very slender, small; interorbital space wide, 

 slightly convex, nearly twice as wide as eye ; gill rakers small, slender, 

 2 + 11 in number. Origin of dorsal a little behind the vertical from base 

 of pectoral; first dorsal high, slightly falcate; second dorsal a little 

 higher in its anterior end, higher than anal; origin of anal about midway 

 between tip of snout and base of caudal; pectoral slender, reaching an 

 eye's diameter beyond front of second dorsal; ventrals inserted twice 

 diameter of eye in front of pectorals, 2-rayed, the inner ray the longer, 

 not reaching to vent in larger examples, reaching to front of anal in small 

 ones; caudal long and rounded. Color in spirits, reddish brown, light 

 below, a small black spot above eye, a vertical series of 3 or 4 behind eye, 

 and 2 on opercle, these spots less than pupil, distinct and clear cut; a 

 dark streak from preorbital across cheek to edge of opercle, lateral line 

 black, interrupted at short intervals by white spots ; fins dusky, with the 

 exception of pectorals and veutrals, dark toward the ends of the rays. 

 Gulf of Mexico, in rather shallow water, coming to shore in abundance 

 about Pensacola in cold weather. Here described from a specimen, 7^ 

 inches in length, from Pensacola, Florida, (floridanus, from Florida.) 



Phycis floridanus, BEAN & DRESEL, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 1884, 100, Pensacola, Florida 

 (Coll. Silas Stearns) ; JORDAN, Cat. Fish. N. A., 129, 1885. 



2927. UROPHY1S EARLLI, Bean. 



Head 3f in body'; depths. D. 10-60; A. 53; scales 155; eye 6 in head; 

 maxillary 2. Body moderately elongate, not much compressed anteriorly ; 

 mouth large, the maxillary reaching to below or very slightly past poste- 

 rior margin of eye; snout and upper jaw projecting beyond lower jaw; 

 teeth strong, cardifprm in a narrow band on vomer and lower jaw, in a 

 rather wide band in upper; interorbital wide, convex, about 1^ times eye; 

 gill rakers short and blunt, about 2-f 9. Origin of dorsal slightly behind 

 the vertical from base of pectoral; origin of anal about midway between 

 snout and base of caudal; ventrals 2-rayed, the inner a little the longer, 

 not reaching to vent. Color brown, with some light spots on the second 

 dorsal fin and on the sides; anal and both dorsals margined with brown. 



