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d. Interorbital space in male broader than eye. Color light brown, with 

 grayish and light bluish dots, some darker areas, and a few round 

 brown spots ocellated with lighter; interorbital space with a 

 vertical brown bar bordered by lighter; fins mottled and spotted. 



LATIFRONS, 3042. 



dd. Interorbital space not broader than pupil. Color light olive brown, 

 nearly uniform, the vertical fins with elongate dark spots. 



OVALE, 3043. 



3040. SYACIUM PAPILLOSUM (Linnams). 



Head 3f in length ; depth 2. D. 82 ; A. 63 to 70 ; scales 53 j eye 5 in head ; 

 maxillary 2f ; pectoral of eyed side 1& ; caudal If. Body elliptic-ovate, the 

 anterior profile regularly decurved, forming an angle above the snout; 

 mouth rather large, arched; maxillary extending to below middle of eye, 

 its posterior end concave; teeth in upper jaw in 2 series, some of the outer 

 forming small canines; lower teeth in 1 row; eye large, 4 in head; lower 

 eye in advance of upper, especially in the adult; interorbital space broad, 

 concave, greater than the long diameter of the eye in the males, about 

 equal to the vertical diameter in the females; accessory scales very numer- 

 ous; mandible, maxillary, and interorbital with scales; gill rakers short, 

 scarcely as long as pupil, about 2 -J- 8 ; dorsal rather low, beginning 

 slightly in front of lower eye, the first 3 or 4 rays on blind side, the anterior 

 rays produced beyond the membrane; ventrals with moderate base, that 

 of eyed side on ridge of body, that of blind side slightly in advance of its 

 mate ; anal beginning a little in advance of pectoral ; pectoral of eyed 

 side pointed behind, the upper rays filamentous (at least in the male) ; 

 caudal double truncate. Vertebrae 10 -f 26 = 36. Color nearly plain brown, 

 with darker dots or inottlings, no ring-like spots or ocelli; fins mottled; 

 left pectoral barred; blind side sometimes wholly or partly dusky, espe- 

 cially in northern specimens. Charleston to Eio Janeiro, in rather deep 

 water. Here described from an adult specimen from Charleston, a foot in 

 length. Of the species found in the deep waters about Pensacola, and 

 called by Dr. Bean Hemirhombus pcetulus, we have numerous specimens. 

 Lately we have received from Mr. Charles C. Leslie, of Charleston, a 

 specimen which shows its presence also in Carolina waters. It has not 

 yet been recorded from Cuba, but in the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 is a specimen (26104) taken by Mr. Samuel Garman, at Kingston, Saint 

 Vincent. But its range extends much farther to the southward, for 

 among the collections made by Professor Agassiz, at Eio Janeiro, there 

 are many specimens (11375, 4666), the largest about a foot long. These 

 seem to be completely identical with Florida examples, differing only in 

 having the blind side pale, it being usually partly blackish in northern 

 samples. These Brazilian specimens agree very closely with the figure 

 of Rhombus soleceformis, except that Agassiz has represented that species 

 as having a dusky blotch at the shoulder. No such marking is apparent 

 in any of our specimens. The coloration and the breadth of the inter- 

 orbital both render it unlikely that Agassi z's soleceformis could have 

 been micrurum. The Aramaca of Marcgrave, which is the sole basis of 

 Pleuronectes papillosus. Pleuronectes macrolepidotus, and Ehombus aramaca, 

 can not well be any known species other than the present one. According 



