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to Marcgrave's rude figure and his description, this species has the form of 

 a sole, the eyes wide apart, the left pectoral produced, the mouth very 

 large, the body oblong, and the coloration stone-like (sand color) on the 

 left side and white on the eyed side. Syacium micrurum is not colored in 

 that way, and its eyes are not noticeably far apart. We therefore adopt 

 for this species the oldest name, Syacium papillosum. (papillosus, having 

 papillae.) 



Aramaca, MARCGRAVE, Hist. Brasil., 181, 1648, Brazil. 



Pleuronectes papillosus, LINNJEUS, Syst. Nat., x, 271, 1758, Brazil; based on MARCGRAVE. 



? Pleuronectes macrolepidotun, BLOCH, Ausliindisclie Fishe, VI, 25, tab. 190, 1787 ; apparently 



based on MARCGRAVE. 

 Pleuronectes aramaca, DONNDORF, Beitrage zur Ausgabe des Linnaeischen Natursystems, 



Xili, 386, 1798; after MARCGRAVE. 



Rhombus aramaca, CUVIER, Regne Animal, Ed. 2, n, 341, 1829; after MARCGRAVE. 

 Rhombus soleceformis, AGASSIZ, Spix, Pise. Brasil., 86, tab. 47, 1829, Atlantic Ocean. 

 Hippoglossus intermedius, RANZANI, Novis Speciebus Piscium Dissertatio Secundo, 1840, 



14, pi. 4, Brazil. 



Hemirhombus soleceformis, GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish., IV, 423, 1862. 

 Hemirhombus pcetulus, BEAN MS., JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 304, Pen- 



sacola (Coll. Silas Stearns) ; GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 414 ; BEAN, Cat. 



CoU. Fish TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, 45. 



Citharichthys aramaca, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 816, 1883. 

 Citharichthys pcetulus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 964, 1883 ; JORDAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. 



Mus. 1884, 38; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 448, pi. 109, fig. 373, 1896. 

 Aramaca papillosa, JORDAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 602; synonymy confused with S. 



micrurum. 



Aramaca soleceformis, JORDAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 602. 

 Syacium papillosum, JORDAN & Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 268, 1889. 



3041. SYACIUM MICRURUM, Ranzani. 



Head 3^ in length; depth 2. D. 87 to 92; A. 54 to 68; scales 65 to 70 

 (pores) ; eye 4 in head ; maxillary 2| to 3. Form regularly elliptical, the 

 profile evenly convex to end of snout; eyes large, nearly even in front, the 

 male with the interorbital space deeply concave, its width the vertical 

 depth of the eye (or more in Brazilian specimens) ; female with interorbital 

 area much narrower, with a more or less perfect median groove, its width 

 about equal to depth of pupil; mouth small, the maxillary reaching to 

 below middle of eye ; teeth small, slender, in 2 rows above, in 1 row below, 

 the outer series in upper jaw somewhat enlarged, but hardly canine-like; 

 gill rakers very short and thick, about 1 -f- 7 in number. Scales small, firm, 

 moderately ctenoid; pectoral 1 in head in the female, reaching nearly to 

 base of caudal in the male ; vertebrae 9 -f- 24 = 33. Color dark brown, with 

 many rings and spots of light gray and blackish, some of the dark rings 

 with a black central spot; a diffuse dusky blotch on lateral line above 

 pectoral, and 1 near base of caudal peduncle ; fins with numerous inky 

 spots and dark markings; blind side pale. West Indian fauna, Key 

 West to Rio Janeiro; rather common. We have found in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology specimens purporting to be the types of Hemirhom- 

 Ints ocellatus, Poey (No. 11144; Poey's nnmber, 88). These are female 

 examples, and they differ from the types of Hemirhombus (vthalion, 

 obtained in Cuba by Dr. Jordan, only in their greater size. Numerous 



