Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2G77 



lighter; intervening portion pearly white with dark specks upon the rays; 

 blind side cream colored. Deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. (Goode & 

 Bean.) (fimbriatus, fringed; from the produced dorsal rays.) 



Hemirhombus fimbriatu*, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 591, deep waters of 

 the Gulf of Mexico, between Mississippi Delta and Cedar Keys. (Type, No. 37330. 

 Coll. Albatross.) 



Arnoglossus ? finibriatuK, JORDAN & Goss, Keview Flounders' and Soles, 262, 1889. 



Cyclopsetta fimbriata, GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ictbyology, 451, fig. 368, 1896. 



1050. AZEVIA, Jordan. 



Azevia, JORDAN, in JORDAN & Goss. Keview Flounders and Soles, 271, 1889 (panamensis) . 

 Body elliptical, compressed, covered with small, firm, ctenoid scales; 

 mouth large; teeth in both jaws uniserial; vomer without teeth; gill 

 rakers very short and thick, tubercle-like; interorbital space very narrow 

 in both sexes, the ridges coalescing between the eyes; lateral line without 

 arch in front; ventrals free from the anal; septum of gill cavity below 

 gill arches, without foramen ; a deep eruargination near isthmus. None of 

 the fins especially modified or with elongate rays. This genus differs from 

 Citliariclitliys in its tubercular gill rakers, as also in its small, firm scales, 

 and other characters of minor importance. (Azevia, a Portuguese name 

 for the sole, used at Lisbon, according to Brito-Capello. It probably cor- 

 responds to the Cuban name Acedia.) 



3047. AZEVIA PANAMENSIS (Steindachner). 



Head 3| in length ; depth 2. D. 95 ; A. 73 to 78 ; scales 73 to 78 ; eye 5 

 in head ; maxillary 2 ; pectoral If ; caudal . Body rather elongate ; ante- 

 rior profile evenly convex ; mouth large, the maxillary reaching to poste- 

 rior border of eye, the upper jaw somewhat hooked over the lower; about 



3 teeth in upper jaw enlarged and hooked, canines in lower jaw long and 

 sharp; eyes about even in head; interorbital space very narrow, less 

 than diameter of pupil, a ridge along its middle ; gill rakers divided into 

 many sharp points around its edge, very short, as wide as long, about 



4 + 9 in number. Scales on posterior part of interorbital, maxillary, and 

 mandible ; tip of snout, the greater part of interorbital, and tip of lower 

 jaw naked; scales all strongly ctenoid; lateral line not curved anteriorly. 

 Origin of dorsal at the vertical between tip of snout and front of eyes, 

 scarcely on blind side, the anterior rays somewhat produced beyond mem- 

 brane, the fin rather low; origin of anal below angle of opercle; pecto- 

 rals short, that of eyed side pointed, its mate of the opposite side broadly 

 rounded behind ; caudal double lunate. Here described from a specimen 

 collected by the Hopkins Expedition to Sinaloa, at Mazatlan, Mexico, 

 about 11 inches in length. We have also examined specimens from 

 Panama, in the museum at Cambridge, a part of the series of Dr. Stein- 

 dachner's original types. Pacific coast of Central America; common at 

 Mazatlan and Panama, (panamensis, from Panama.) 



Citharichthys panamensis, STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Beitr., in, 62, 1875, Panama; JORDAN & 

 GILBERT, Bull. TJ. S. Fish Comm. 1882, 108 and 111; GILBERT, Bull. U.S. Fish Coram. 

 1882, 112. 



Azevia panamensis, JORDAN & Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 272, 1889 ; JORDAN, 

 Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 503. 



