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scales thin, deciduous ; eye equal to snout or interorbital space ; interor- 

 bital with a strong ridge; teeth minute, close set, in a single series, 

 stronger on the blind side; a strong, sharp spine on the snout at the 

 anterior termination of the ridge at lower margin of upper eye; caudal 

 pointed, triangular, subsessile ; pectoral of left side twice as long as the 

 eye, not \ longer than right pectoral. Dorsal beginning at side of preor- 

 bital spine, its anterior rays being slightly upon the blind side; anal 

 equal to dorsal in height. Ashy gray, with dark lateral line; eyes black. 

 (Goode.) Deep waters of the Gulf Stream, (nnicornis, having one horn.) 



Citharichthys unicornis, GOODE, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 342, Gulf Stream off south- 

 east of New England; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 818, 1883; JORDAN <fc Goss. 

 Review Flounders and Soles, 275, 1889; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 444, 

 fig. 369, A & B, 1896. 



3056. CITHARICHTHYS UHLERI, Jordan. 



D. 68; A. 52; scales 53 (pores). Body comparatively broad, regularly 

 oval, without angle; greatest depth of body under middle of dorsal; eyes 

 moderate, 44 in head, close together, the orbital ridges coalescent, the 

 lower larger. Teeth small, uniserial; maxillary 2 A- in head; gill rakers 

 short and very slender, x -f- 12. Color dark brown, with whitish blotches, 

 the fins mottled. Hayti. A single specimen in the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology, 4 inches in length. The species is close to Citharichthy* 

 macrops, but its fin rays and scales are considerably more numerous than 

 in the latter. (Named for Mr. Philip Reese Uhler, the well-known ento- 

 mologist, its discoverer.) 



Citharichthys uhleri, JORDAN & Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 275, 1889, Hayti. 

 (Coll. P. R. Uhler. Type in Mus. Comp. Zool.) 



3057. C1THAR1CTHTS MACROPS, Dresel. 



Head 4 in body ; depth scarcely 2. D. 80 ; A. 56 ; scales 14-41-16 ; lower eye 

 4inhead; maxillary 2; highest dorsal rays a little over 2; pectoral of eyed 

 side If ; caudal 4 in body ; vertebrae 9 -f 25 =34. Body suboval ; upper pro- 

 file very convex, descending in a sharp curve from nape to front of upper 

 eye, and forming an abrupt angle with the short, blunt snout ; mouth mod- 

 erate, very oblique and curved ; maxillary reaching to below middle of eye ; 

 teeth minute, uniserial, slightly larger on blind side; interorbital narrow, 

 with a scaleless ridge, which curves upward and backward to upper angle 

 of gill opening; upper eye very close to profile, its anterior margin on the 

 same vertical line with lower ; snout shorter than eye; gill rakers about 

 the length of eye, 6 + 13 in number. Scales large, not ciliated, no acces- 

 sory scales; origin of dorsal on blind side near tip of snout, anterior rays 

 exserted, the first ray as long as eye, the fin highest at its middle portion ; 

 origin of- anal under base of pectoral, its highest part a little higher than 

 dorsal ; caudal pointed ; pectoral of blind side somewhat shorter than that 

 of eyed side. Color in spirits, light-olive brown ; body with some 20 dark- 

 brown spots, the largest as large as eye, 4 of these arranged at equal inter- 

 vals along the lateral line, the second near the middle the most prominent; 

 dorsal and anal fins with a series of round, brown spots, 1 at the middle of 

 every sixth or seventh ray, besides small irregular spots and mottlings; 



