Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2669 



anal fins; arch, of lateral line short and small, but abrupt, 4 to 5 times in 

 straight part. Dorsal beginning on blind side just behind posterior nos- 

 tril and in front of eye ; pectoral of colored side 2 in head, that of blind 

 side 2 in head; ventrals of colored side slightly longest, 3 in head; 

 that of colored side with 6 rays, of blind side with 5 or 6 rays. Color of 

 left or eyed side, blackish brown, with scattered white and black spots, 

 the latter most prominent along base of dorsal and anal fin; 3 large, 

 black, nonocellated blotches on straight part of lateral line, the first at 

 beginning, second at middle, and third on peduncle; fins dusky; dorsal 

 and anal with scattered white and black spots; caudal with 5 black spots 

 arranged in a curved series ; blind side with 5 or 6 curved parallel dusky 

 bands as wide as eye, the first beginning on interopercle and curving 

 across cheek to along base of dorsal; second beginning at throat and 

 curving along posterior margin of preopercle, and extending on back, 

 parallel with the first from vent; third curving around in fijont of pecto- 

 rals, across posterior part of opercle, and extending to base of dorsal fin 

 behind the middle ; rest behind pectorals. All of these bands fade out 

 behind middle of body, so that the posterior portion is immaculate. In 

 young examples these bands are very faint or obsolete. Coast of Colom- 

 bia, southwest of Panama. Numerous specimens, the largest about 4 

 inches long, were dredged at Albatross Station 2795, at a depth of 33 fath- 

 oms, and at Albatross Station 2805 at a depth of 51| fathoms. This peculiar 

 species is distinguished from the species of Platoplirys and Engyprosopon by 

 its very narrow interorbital ridge, from the species of Arnoylossm by the 

 form of the body, the short gill rakers, etc., and from all related species 

 by the peculiar coloration of the blind side. (Named for St. Lawrence, 

 in allusion to the gridiron-like markings of the blind side.) 



Engyophrys sancti-laurentii, JORDAN & BOLLMAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 176, Pacific 

 Ocean, off coast of Colombia, at Albatross Station 2805, Lat. 7 56' N., Long. 79 

 41' 30" W., and Station 2795, Lat. 7 57' N., Long. 78 55' W. (Type, No. 41155.) 



1047. TRICHOPSETTA, Gill. 



Trichopsetta, GILL, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1888, 603 (ventralis). 



Body ovate, covered with rather large, ctenoid adherent scales; mouth 

 moderate, the chin prominent; vomer toothless; teeth small, somewhat 

 enlarged and hooked in front, uuiserial; maxillaries obliquely truncated 

 behind; interorbital area a narrow ridge, with a median groove in front; 

 none of the dorsal rays produced; ventrals free from the anal; caudal fin 

 subsessile; both pectoral fins present; right ventral much produced, the 

 left on the ridge of the abdomen ; lateral line with a strong arch in front. 

 (Opiq, hair; i/jfjrra, turbot, from the prolonged ventral.) 



3039. TRICHOPSETTA TENTRALIS (Goode & Bean). 



Head 4 in body; depth 2. D. 93; A. 73; pectoral 11 (eyed side), 7 or 8 

 (blind side) ; scales 19-66-23 ; eye 3f in head ; maxillary scarcely 2 ; inter- 

 orbital very narrow, scaleless, its width 8 in eye; scales strongly ctenoid; 

 dorsal beginning upon snout upon the blind side, in advance of eyes, its 



