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of dorsal aud anal rays. In the number of its vertebrae it agrees with 

 P. lethostigmus. It seems to reach a smaller si/e than either of these 

 species. Here described from a specimen, 16 inches in length, collected at 

 Cedar Key, Florida, (albus, white; gutta, spot.) 



Pseudorhombus dentatus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 370 ; not of 



LDOLBUB. 

 Paralichthys albigutta, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 302, Pensacola 



(Type, No. 30818. Coll. Dr. Jordan) ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 823, 1883; JORDAN 



& SWAIN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 233; JORDAN & Goss, Review Flounders and 



Soles, 248, 1889. 



3000. PARALICHTHYS OBLOXGUS (Mitcbill). 



(FOUR-SPOTTED FLOUNDER.) 



Head 4; depth 2^. D. 72; A. 60; scales 93. Body comparatively elon- 

 gate, strongly compressed. Eyes large, nearly 4 in head, separated by a 

 prominent, narrow, sharp ridge. Upper jaw with very numerous small, 

 close-set teeth laterally, and 4 or 5 canines in front; the lateral teeth 

 abruptly smaller than the anterior; each side of lower jaw with 7 to 10 

 teeth. Chin prominent. Maxillary narrow, reaching past middle of 

 pupil, 2 in length of head. Gape curved; gill rakers short and toothed 

 behind, 2 + 8. Scales weakly ctenoid or cycloid. Dorsal low, beginning 

 over front of eye, some of the anterior rays exserted, but not elongate, the 

 longest rays behind middle of fin, not quite head ; caudal 1 in head ; pec- 

 toral If; anal spine obsolete. Grayish, thickly mottled with darker aud 

 somewhat translucent; 4 large, horizontally oblong, black ocelli, each 

 surrounded by a pinkish area, 1 just behind middle of the body below the 

 dorsal, 1 opposite this above anal, 2 similar smaller spots below last rays 

 of dorsal and above last of anal. Coasts of New England and New York. 

 This species is rather common on the coast of Cape Cod and the neigh- 

 boring islands, but it has been rarely noticed elsewhere. The limits of its 

 range are not yet definitely known. It is a very strongly marked species. 

 Its trauslucency of, coloration indicates that it lives in deeper water than 

 the other species of the genus. Here described from specimen from Woods 

 Hole. 



Another specimen in our collection from Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 

 referred to this species, shows the following characters: Brownish, 

 somewhat mottled, without traces of ocelli (possibly faded) ; fins similar. 

 Body rather elongate, slenderer than in other species and more com- 

 pressed; mouth rather large, oblique, the lower jaw not projecting, the 

 maxillary 2j in head, reaching to opposite posterior border of pupil; about 

 12 teeth on each side of lower jaw, the anterior rather long, about equal to 

 anterior teeth of upper j aw ; lateral teeth of upper j aw becoming gradually 

 smaller posteriorly, much larger, less numerous, and more widely set than 

 in other species of this genus. Eyes large, longer than snout, 4 to 4 in 

 head, separated by a narrow, elevated, bony ridge, narrower than pupil, 

 anteriorly scaleless, and curved behind the upper eye posteriorly. Scales 

 moderate, cycloid, rather thin ; curve of lateral line 4f in straight part. 

 Gill rakers 2 -f- 8 in number, rather long and slender, about 4 in maxillary. 

 Dorsal beginning above middle of eye, its anterior rays not longer than 



