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arch of lateral line barely twice as long as high, nearly 5 in straight part; 

 maxillary 2^ in head. Mr. Garman has kindly examined for us 6 other 

 specimens, with the following results : 



"Paralichthys adspersus from Callao, has gill rakers 



"Sir about $ as long as the eye. 



" SV nearly as long as the eye. 



"S S 4 about f as long as the eye. 



t{< -f- about f- as long as the eye. 



" '-fa near as long as eye. 7 " 



We are now disposed to regard these Mazatlan specimens as identical 

 with Paralichthys adspersus, the range of variation in the number of gill 

 rakers in the latter probably including the former. Pacific coast of 

 tropical America, from Gulf of California to the coast of Peru ; everywhere 

 abundant and very variable, (adspersus, covered with spots.) 



Pseudorhombus adspersus, STEINDACHNEB, Ichthyol. Notizen, v, 9, pi. 2, 1867, Chinchas 



Islands. 

 Paralichthys adspersus, JORDAN <fc GILBERT, Proo. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 370; JORDAN & 



GILBERT, Bull. TJ. S. Fish. Comm. 1882, 108 and 111; JORDAN, Cat. Fiah N.A.,133, 1885; 



JORDAN <fc Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 246, 1889; JORDAN & WILLIAMS, Proc. 



Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 503. 



2995. PARALICHTHYS WOOLMAM, Jordan & Williams. 



HeadSi; depth about 2; gill rakers 5 + 11. D. 74; A. 57; P. 12; V. 6; 

 scales 100. Flesh firm; body oblong; mouth large, mandible heavy, not 

 projecting; about 8 teeth on each side of lower jaw, the anterior ones 

 long and slender; teeth in upper jaw smaller than those in lower jaw, 

 the lateral teeth very small and close set. Eye small, 5 in length of 

 head; interorbital area moderately prominent, narrow, about f length of 

 eye. Scales cycloid, small anteriorly and increasing in size posteriorly, 

 covering head and fins; lateral line greatly arched anteriorly, arch about 

 3 times in length of straight portion. Gill rakers slender, the longest 

 about | in length of eye. Pectoral and ventral fins small ; pectoral about $ 

 in length of head ; origin of dorsal opposite anterior margin of eye ; caudal 

 ending in an obtuse angle, not double concave; caudal peduncle strong; 

 anal spine obsolete. Body and fins blotched with deep brown and pearly 

 white and specked with very dark brown, blotches more definite on me- 

 dian fins and especially on caudal where there are 3 indefinite lines of 

 blotches crossing the fin. Galapagos Islands. One specimen taken by the 

 Albatross in 1890, which was at first identified as Paralichthys adspersus, from 

 which species it differs but little except in the number of gill rakers. 

 (Named for Mr. Albert Jefferson Woolman, of Duluth, Minnesota, in recog- 

 nition of his work on the fishes of Mexico and Florida.) 



Paralichthys woolmani, JORDAN & WILLIAMS, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1896, 457, Galapagos 

 Islands. (Type, No. 47575. Coll. Albatross.) 



* Garman, in lit., May 3, 1895. 



