Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2683 



3053. CITHARICHTHYS PLATOPHRYS, Gilbert. 



Head 3; depth 2. D. 78; A. 62; scales 43. Body ovate; caudal fin sub- 

 sessile, the free portiou of caudal peduncle about | as long as diameter of 

 pupil, its depth \ length of head. Mouth very oblique; maxillary 2 in 

 head, reaching vertical from middle of lower eye. Teeth slender, close 

 set, in a single series in each jaw, those in front of upper jaw largest, but 

 not canine-like. Eyes large, the lower much in advance of the upper, 

 their horizontal diameter 3f in head. Interorbital space very wide for the 

 genus, concave, divided by an oblique ridge running backward from mid- 

 dle of upper orbit ; interorbital width 8f in head, nearly ^ as wide as eye. 

 Distance from tip of snout to front of lower eye diameter of eye, from tip 

 of snout to upper eye \ head. Gill rakers short and very slender, less than 

 diameter of pupil, 9 present on horizontal limb of outer arch. Scales large, 

 those on blind side very weakly ctenoid. Dorsal beginning behind nostril 

 on blind side of snout, its longest ray 2| in head; pectoral of eyed side 

 long and narrow, 4 in length, containing 11 rays, that of blind side but \ 

 its length ; ventrals short ; caudal rounded, If in head. Color in spirits, 

 uniform light brownish (olivaceous in life), without distinctive marks; 

 tins somewhat dusky; ventral of eyed side jet-black, that of blind side 

 blackish on distal portion of inner rays. (Gilbert.) One specimen known, 

 from Albatross Station 2799, southwest of Panama, (rtkarvg, broad; 

 ofipvg, eyebrow.) 



Oitharichthys platophrys, GILBERT, Proc. U. S. JSat. Mus. 1890, 454, Albatross Station 2799, 

 southwest of Panama. (Coll. Albatross.) 



3054. CITHARICHTHYS ARCTIPRONS, Goode. 



Head 4 in body ; depth 2f . D. 82 ; A. 67 ; pectorals 9 or 10, 7 ; scales 8-40-8 ; 

 eye 4 in head; maxillary 3|; caudal 1. Body comparatively elongate; 

 mouth small; teeth small, the anterior scarcely enlarged; iuterorbital 

 space narrow, sharp, scaleless; scales cycloid, deciduous; small scales 

 on the rays of the ventral fins; lateral line sharply defined, straight. 

 Dorsal beginning above front of upper eye, its highest ray about 3 times 

 the distance from snout to first ray ; origin of anal under base of pecto- 

 ral; caudal subsessile, triangular; rays of vertical fins all exserted; 

 pectoral inserted low, that of eyed side twice the length of the other. 

 Color dirty light brown. Deep waters of the Gulf Stream, (arctus, con- 

 tracted; frons, forehead.) 



Citharichthys arctifrons, GOODE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 341, 472, Gulf Stream off south- 

 ern coast of New England; GopDE & BEAN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. x, No. 5, 

 xix, 194, 1883; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 818, 1883; JORDAN & Goss, Review 

 Flounders and Soles, 275, 1889; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 442, fig. 366, 1896. 



8055. CITHARICHTHYS UNICORNIS, Goode. 



Head 4 in length; depth a little less than length. D. 74; A. 60; P. 4 

 (right), 10 (left); scales 12-40-12; eye 3 in head; maxillary scarcely 2; 

 highest dorsal ray 2. Body deep, its greatest height over the pectorals ; 



