Jordan and Ever mann. Fishes of North America. 2707 



and anal; the general coloration darker; the scales and eyes larger. 

 (atramentatus, inked.) 



Symphurus atramentatus, JORDAN & BOLLMAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 177, off coast of 

 Colombia, at Albatross Station 2795, Lat. 7 57' N., Long. 78 55' W., in 33 fathoms. 

 (Type, 41157, TJ. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. Albatross.) 



3081. SYMPHURUS FASOIOLABIS, Gilbert. 



DepthSf in length; head5^. D.94; A. 77; scales95. Eye small, 7 in head; 

 cleft of mouth reaching to below middle of lower eye. Color light olive, 

 with numerous roundish brownish-black spots much larger than eye, the 

 largest arranged in 5 vertical dusky cross bars, the spots being connected by 

 a darker ground color ; a vertical dusky streak through eye ; a wide dusky 

 cross bar, bounded by darker lines on cheeks ; dorsal and anal posteriorly 

 black, with narrow white margin ; caudal jet-black, with white edge ; ven- 

 tral white. Gulf of California, where several specimens were dredged by 

 the Albatross, in shallow water. (Gilbert.) (fasciolaris, with narrow 

 bands.) 



Symphurus fasciolaris, GILBERT, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1891, 566, Gulf of California. (Coll. 

 Dr. Gilbert.) 



3082. SYMPHURUS ELONGATUS (Gilnther). 



Head 5 in body ; depth 4f . D. 97; A. 82; scales 98 to 105; eye 10 or 11 

 in head; gape of mouth 3^; caudal 2. Body extremely elongate; mouth 

 strongly curved, reaching past lower eye; eyes in contact, the upper in 

 advance; opercle vertical behind, devided into 2 convex flaps by a con- 

 cave portion, its upper end hardly reaching axis of body ; scales not keeled, 

 ctenoid. Pectorals obsolete ; dorsal beginning above eye ; rays of dorsal 

 and anal short, subequal, the fins confluent with the caudal, which ends in 

 a sharp point ; ventral of blind side obsolete, that of eyed side on the body 

 ridge, separated from the anal. Color brownish, often mottled, usually 

 with more or less distinct darker cross bands, and with longitudinal 

 streaks along the rows of scales, sometimes nearly plain brown ; caudal fin 

 black, as is a large part of the dorsal and anal, the black either contin- 

 uous or in the form of large spots. Pacific coast of Central America; not 

 rare. Here described from a specimen, 6 inches long, from Albatross Station 

 2804, in Panama Bay, in 47 fathoms, (elongatus, elongate.) 

 Aphoristia ornata, var. elongata, GUNTHER, Fishes Centr. Amer., 473, 1869, Panama. 

 Aphoristia elongata, JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm. 1882, 111. 

 Symphurus elongatus, JORDAN & Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 323, 1885. 



3083. STMPHURUS ATRICAUDUS (Jordan & Gilbert). 

 (SAN DIEGO SOLE.) 



Head 5; depth 3. D. 100; A. 80; scales 105. Body oblong-lanceolate, 

 anteriorly somewhat blunt, regularly narrowed behind and ending in a 

 point ; the snout rather abruptly truncate ; eyes and color on the left side. 

 Eyes very small, nearly even behind, the upper eye the larger and extend- 

 ing farther forward. A single nostril in front of interorbital space, and 



