2692 Bulletin 4.7 y United States National Museum. 



3064. MONOLENE ATRIMANA, Goode & Bean. 



Head 4J in length of body; depth about 3. D. 124; A. 100; scales 30- 

 105-32; eye2f in head; maxillary 3; highest dorsal ray 2; left ventral 3; 

 pectoral 4 in body ; caudal 6. Body rather elongate ; snout slightly pro- 

 duced. Mouth oblique, the maxillary extending to a little behind front 

 of lower eye, teeth uniserial, well developed on both sides; lower eye in 

 advance of upper ; interorbital a very narrow ridge, about 9 in eye ; nos- 

 trils in very short tubes in the same line with the interorbital ridge, the 

 posterior one is slightly less distant from lower eye than the anterior one 

 is from the snout; head everywhere scaly; lateral line strongly arched 

 over anterior third of pectoral. Origin of dorsal on blind side above front 

 of lower eye, longest rays in posterior fourth of fin ; highest rays of anal a 

 little higher than dorsal rays; pectoral on eyed side only; caudal sessile, 

 rounded. Color light brownish gray, right ventral pale, other fins dusky ; 

 pectoral and eyelids black. West Indies. The type was taken by the 

 Blake in 288 fathoms, off Barbados; its length is 114mm. (Goode & Bean.) 

 (ater, black; manus, hand.) 

 Monolene atrimana, GOODE & BEAN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xu, 155, 1886, deep waters off 



Barbados ; JORDAN & Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 280, 1889 ; GOODE & BEAN, 



Oceanic Ichthyology, 455, fig. 358, 1896. 



Family CCXX. SOLEID^E. 

 (THE SOLES.) 



Body oblong or elongate, usually scaly ; mouth very small, much twisted 

 toward the eyed side ; the teeth in villif orm bands, very small or obsolete ; 

 eyes small, close together, with or without a bony ridge between them; 

 edge of preopercle adnate, concealed by the skin and scales; gill openings 

 narrow, the gill membranes adnate to the shoulder girdle above ; pectoral 

 fins small or wanting ; ventral fins small, 1 or both sometimes wanting. 

 Small fishes living on sandy bottoms, similar to the Pleuronectida; in struc- 

 ture, but much degraded, the fins and teeth having lost many of their 

 distinctive qualities. The vertebrae are usually in increased numbers.* 



* The following are the numbers of vertebra in several species of Soleidce: 



I. 



Achirus fasciatus ............................................... ............ 8 + 20= 28 



Achirus inscriptus ......................................................... 9 + 19 = 28 



II. SOLEINJE. 



Synaptura zebra .............................................. . ............. [8 + 41 = 49] 



Soleasolea .................................................................. 9 + 40= 49 



Solea kleini ................................................................. 10 + 37 = 47 



Solea aurantiaca ............................................................ [4f>] 



Quenselia ocellata ............................................... ........... 9 + 28 = 37 



Microchirus luteus ......................................................... 8 + 29 = 37 



Monochirus hispidus ....................................................... 9 -f- 25= 34 



III. CYNOGLOSSINJE. 



Symphurus atricaudus .......... '. .......................................... 10 + 42= 52 



Symphurus nigrescens ..................................................... 9 + 40= 49 



Symphurus plagiusa ....................................................... 9 + 38= 47 



