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long, which have been partly dried before being placed in alcohol. Cuba. 

 The original description of this species is a very scanty one. In all re- 

 spects, unless it be the color, it agrees with the European species, Plato- 

 plirys podas. We have found 2 small specimens sent by Professor Poey to 

 the Museum of Comparative Zoology, which may be the types of this 

 species. They are 4 inches long, and have been partly dried in the sun. 

 A result of this has been to increase the prominence of the interhsemal 

 spines. Whether these be the original types or not, the species is an ex- 

 tremely doubtful one. The eyes are farther apart in these specimens than 

 in any of Platophrys ocellatus, which we have examined. They agree in 

 this respect with Agassiz's figure of Rhombus ocellatus. (spinosus, spinous.) 



- Ithomboidichthys spinosus, POEY, Synopsis, 409, 1868, Cuba; POEY, Enumeratio, 139, 1875. 

 riatophrys spinotus, JORDAN & Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 266, 1889. 



8031. PLATOPHRYS CONSTELLATUS, Jordan. 



Head 4; depth 1|; eye 3i in head; interorbital width 3. D.89; A, 65; 

 scales 75. Body elliptic-ovate, the outlines more regular than in P. luna- 

 ttis; anterior profile of head convex before the interorbital area, the very 

 short snout scarcely forming a reentrant angle at its base ; anal rays with- 

 out spinules at their base; mouth small, the maxillary 3 in head; no 

 spines about the snout; pectoral short; curve of lateral line 6 times in 

 straight part. Color dark brown, with numerous stellate white spots, the 

 most distinct of them with darker edgings; these generally scattered over 

 the body, but some of them on sides of body are gathered together in little 

 rings (perhaps these spots are blue rather than white in life); fins 

 mottled with dark brown, the pectoral finely barred. Specimens exam- 

 ined 3 inches long. Galapagos Archipelago. Originally described from 

 3 specimens, the largest 3^ inches long, numbered 11146 on the register 

 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. They are from James Island, 

 in the Galapagos. The species is closely related to P. ocellatus and 

 others, but in color, at least, it is different, and its habitat is remote ; 

 locally common, (constellatus, with star-like spots.) 



Platophrys constellatus, JORDAN, in JORDAN & Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 266, 

 1889, James Island, Galapagos Archipelago. (Types in M.C. Z.) 



3032. PLATOPHRYS OCELLATUS (Agassiz). 



Head 4 in length; depth 1; eye (lower) 3f in head; snout 5. D. 85; 

 A. 64; scales 75 (pores); vertebrae 37. Body ovate, deep anteriorly, the 

 profile descending steeply, rendered abruptly concave in front of inter- 

 orbital space by the conspicuously projecting short snout. Mouth very 

 small and oblique, the maxillary reaching vertical from front of lower 

 eye, 3f in head; tip of lower jaw entering the profile. Teeth fine, coni- 

 cal, in 2 series in the upper jaw, 1 in the lower, those of the outer row in 

 upper jaw larger and more widely separated than those of the inner series. 

 Snout very short, equaling interorbital width. Interorbital space nar- 

 row, deeply concave, closely scaled. Eyes large, the lower in advance of 

 upper. Gill rakers obsolete, 7 rudiments on horizontal branch of anterior 

 arch. Scales moderate, not extending on the fins, those on colored side 



