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Aphoristia ornata, KAUP, Archiv fur Naturgesch. 1858, 106 ; GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 490,1862; 



POEY, Synopsis, 409, 1868; POKY, Enumeratio, 140, 1875; KNEE, Novara Fische, m,292; 



D. 90 ; A. 75 ; depth 3 in length. 



Aphoristia plagiusa, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 53 ; not S, plagiusa of this paper. 

 Symphurus plagusia, JORDAN & Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 324, 1889. 



3086. SYMPHURUS PLAGIUSA* (Linnaeus). 



(TONGUE FISH.) 



Head 5; depth 3 to 3. D. 86 to 95; A. 75 to 80; scales 85 to 93. Body 

 not very elongate. Body grayish, with dark cross bands more distinct 

 than in related species ; dorsal and anal more or less mottled or spotted 

 with darker; caudal similarly colored, not distinctly black. South Atlan- 

 tic and Gulf coasts of the United States, from Cape Hatteras to Pensacola 

 and Key West, replacing S. plagusia northward, the species as similar as 

 the two names; very common on the sandy shores of our South Atlantic 

 and Gulf States. Our numerous specimens are from Beaufort, Charles- 

 ton, Pensacola, and Key West. Those from Key West nearly plain gray, 

 as would be expected in fishes taken from the coral sands. (itXdyioc,, 

 oblique.) 



Pleuronectet plagiusa, LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., Ed. xn, 455, 1766, on a specimen from Dr. Gar- 

 den, probably from Charleston, but the locality not quite certain ; and of various 

 copyists. 



Plagusia fasciata, HOLBROOK MS., DE KAY, New York Fauna: Fishes, 304, 1842, Charles- 

 ton. 



Glossichthys plagiusa, GILL, Cat. Fish East Coast N. Am., 51, 1861. 



Plagusia plagiusa. GILL, Cat. Fish. East Coast N. Am., 794, 1873. 



Aphoristia plagiusa, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 368; JORDAN, I c., 

 1880, 22; JORDAN & GILBERT, 1. c., 1882, 305 and 618; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 842, 

 1883 ; JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 144. 



Aphoristia fasciata, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 53. 



Symphurus plagiusa, JORDAN & Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 325, 1889. 



3087. SYMPHURUS PUSILLUS (Goode & Bean). 



Head 5 in total length ; depth 3. D. 78 ; A. 70 ; scales 85 to 90-35 (trans- 

 verse) ; eye 5 in head ; snout 5i ; length of gape of mouth 4. Body slender, 

 lanceolate ; mouth small, oblique, curved, its angle under anterior margin 

 of pupil of lower eye ; dentition feeble ; eyes small, close together, in the 

 same vertical line ; tubular nostril midway between lower eye and tip of 

 snout; scales small, strongly ctenoid ; jaws and snout scaled. Dorsal 

 beginning above middle of eye, its highest rays 2f in depth of body; 

 greatest height of anal 3; median caudal rays short; ventrals well sepa- 

 rated from anal. Color light brown, with 6 or 7 cross bars of slightly 



* A specimen of Symphurus, nearly 6 inches long, collected at Beaufort, North Carolina, 

 by Prof. O. P. Jenkins, seems referable to Symphurus putillus rather than to the typical 

 plagiusa. It is highly mottled in coloration, the body and fins being profusely speckled 

 and blotched with blackish, besides 9 or 10 rather distinct cross bands. D. 85; A. 72; 

 scales about 80. Depth 3J in length. Another large specimen, 7 inches long, from the 

 Florida Keys, is in the museum at Cambridge. This has : D. 82 ; A. 72 ; scales 76. Depth 

 3 in length. Color brown, almost plain, except that the fins are mottled, especially poste- 

 riorly; caudal fin not black. If these two specimens are really typical of Symphurus 

 pusillus, it probably can not be separated as a species from S. plagiusa. 



