472 DR. GUNTHER ON THE FISHES OF CENTRAL AMERICA. 
one-third as long as the eye. Greenish olive (in spirits); a series of distant blackish 
spots along the basal portions of the anal and dorsal fins. 
This species occurs on the shores of the tropical parts of the Atlantic, and has been 
found by Mr. Salvin also on the Pacific coast, at Chiapam. 
196. CITHARICHTHYS GUATEMALENSIS. 
Bleeker, Nederl. Tydschr. Dierk. 1864, p. 73. 
Det. “Ae ol. a. tat, Ga. ap 
“Citharichthys corpore ovali, altitudine 23 circiter in ejus longitudine; capite 43 
circiter in longitudine corporis, que alto circiter ac longo; oculis sinistris, minus 
diametro + distantibus, superiore quam inferiore vix majore 5 circiter in longitudine 
capitis, paulo ante inferiorem prominente; linea frontonuchali declivi rectiuscula ; 
naribus non tubulatis, utroque latere approximatis; rictu curvato; maxillis subzquali- 
bus, superiore usque ante oculi inferioris marginem superiorem adscendente, sub oculi 
inferioris partem posteriorem desinente, 22 circiter in longitudine capitis; dentibus 
maxillis conicis acutis parvis, caninis nullis, utroque latere maxilla superiore numerosis 
postrorsum magnitudine decrescentibus, maxilla inferiore parcioribus, intermaxillaribus 
majoribus subeequalibus; praoperculo obtusangulo angulo rotundato; squamis pre- 
operculo in series verticales 8 circiter, operculo in series verticales 6 vel 7 dispositis, 
linea laterali corpore antice parum declivi; capite regione oculo-temporali conspicua 
obliqua; prima dorsali ante medium oculum superiorem incipiente et vix ante pinnam 
caudalem desinente radiis longissimis corpore plus triplo humilioribus; pinnis pecto- 
ralibus et ventralibus (ex parte abruptis); anali dorsali vix humiliore; caudali postice 
angulata 53 ad 5} in longitudine corporis; colore corpore latere oculari viridescente (?), 
latere anophthalmo albido, pinnis flavescente (?).” 
The specimen, which is 145 mm. long, and in the Leyden Museum, is stated to be 
from Guatemala. 
197, Hemiruomeus ovatis. (Plate LXXX. fig. 1’.) 
Ginth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 154. 
D. 86. <A. 69. L. lat. 58. 
The dorsal commences before the eye. ‘Teeth of the upper jaw in a double series, 
with one or two pairs of small canine teeth in front; those of the lower jaw closely set, 
conical, in a single series. Scales largest in the middle of the body, adherent, ciliated ; 
lateral line ascending gently over the pectoral fin, straight for the rest of its length. 
The height of the body is contained twice and two-thirds in the total length; the length 
of the head four times and two-thirds, Snout rather shorter than the eye, the diameter 
of which is two-ninths of the length of the head. Jaws equal anteriorly; the length of 
' The artist has unfortunately omitted to reverse the view of this figure. 
