Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2711 



darker hue; fins pale, with dusky blotches; blind side white. (Goode & 

 Bean.) Gulf Stream, in deep water. Very close to Symphurus plagiusa. 

 (puslllus, weak.) 

 Aphoristia pusilla, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 590, Gulf Stream, Lat. 40 



N., in deep water; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 461, fig. 379, 1896. 

 tiymphurui pusillus, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 651. 



3088. SYMPHURUS DIOMEDEAWS (Goode & Bean). 



Head 5| in body; depth 3^. D. 96 (including J of caudal) ; A. 79; scales 

 85; eye 6 in head; snout 5; caudal 10 in total length. Mouth oblique, 

 curved, its angle below front of eye, teeth very feeble; nostril tubular, 

 nearer eye than tip of snout; eyes moderate, equal, very close together, 

 upper eye directly over the lower ; scales moderate, somewhat deciduous, 

 ctenoid; jaws and snout with small thin scales. Origin of dorsal above 

 middle of upper eye, highest rays 3 times depth of body ; ventrals well 

 separated from the anal. Color uniform gray, lighter below, the scales 

 above somewhat metallic in luster; the last fourth of dorsal with 3 oblong 

 black blotches somewhat larger than eye, the anal with 4, similar in posi- 

 tion ; in the young there is a slight brownish marginal line upon each 

 scale, and an appearance of indistinct cloudings of brown upon the colored 

 side. Oft* Trinidad and Dominica and in the Gulf of Mexico. The speci- 

 men here described was collected by the Albatross at Station 2414, in the 

 Gulf of Mexico, north of the Tortugas, at a depth of 26 fathoms ; its length 

 is 140 mm. Other specimens were dredged by the Albatross at Station 2362, 

 in Lat. 22 08' 30" N., Long. 86 53' 30" W., in 25 fathoms, and at Stations 

 2121 and 2122, between Lat. 10 37' 40" N., Long. 61 42' 40" W., and Lat. 

 10 37' N., Long. 61 44' 22" W., in 31 to 34 fathoms. Specimens were also 

 secured by the Blake at Stations XXIV and XXV, oif Dominica. (Goode 

 & Bean.) Evidently very close to SympJiurus plagiusa. (Diomedea, the 

 Albatross ; from the name of the steamer by which most of the deep-sea ex- 

 plorations of the United States Fish Commission have been accomplished.) 

 Aphoristia diomedeana, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 589, Gulf of Mexico, 



Lat. 25 04' 30" N., Long. 82 9 59' 15" W. (Type, No. 37347. Coll. Albatross); GOODE 



& BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 460, fig. 378, 1896. 



3089. SYMPHURUS WILLIAMSI, Jordan & Culver. 



Head4f; depth 3f. D. 93; A. 73; scales 92. Body more slender than 

 in S. plagiusa, which it much resembles, but less slender than S. elongatus; 

 upper eye slightly in advance of lower. Sand color in life; light gray, 

 everywhere finely mottled with light and dark; traces of a few very nar- 

 row dark cross bands; fins all mottled; caudal and posterior part of dorsal 

 and anal not black, scarcely darker than anterior part. Known only 

 from Mazatlan, where 2 specimens, the larger about 1 inches long, were 

 obtained by Mr. T. M. Williams, in tide pools with sandy bottom in very 

 shallow water near the estuary. (Named for Thomas Marion Williams, a 

 student in biology in Stanford University, discoverer of the species.) 

 Symphurus williamsi, JORDAN, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 506, pi. 55, Mazatlan. (Coll. Hop- 

 kins Exped. to Mazatlan.) 



