224 DEEP SEA FISHES. 



Citharichthys maculifer sp. n. 



D. 85 ; A 65-07; V. 6; P. 12 r., 10 to 11 1. ; LI. 57-59; Ltr. 16 + 19. 



Sinistral; lower outline of profile similar to the upper, more curved in the 

 anterior half of the length ; depth four elevenths and length of head three 

 thirteenths of the total length. Snout three fourths as long as the eje ; 

 chin descending backward ; jaws even. A slight indentation in the outline 

 of the forehead in front of the right eye. Interorbital space one fourth as 

 wide as the eye, a longitudinal groove widening forward, with a bony ridge 

 at each orbit, left much stronger. Eyes medium, three elevenths of the 

 length of the head, one and one third times the length of the snout, left 

 slightly in advance of the right. Nostrils small, close together ; anterior 

 smaller, with a pointed dermal fold. Mouth medium, asymmetrical, 

 curved ; maxillary crooked, hind corner near a vertical from the middle 

 of the eye. Teeth small, hooked, larger forward, a pair of small canines on 

 the intermaxillaries. Gill rakers short, strong, two plus seven. 



Lateral line nearly straight, slightly curved above the pectorals. 



Scales rather small, ctenoid on the left side, cycloid on the right, absent 

 from the snout. 



Pectoral fins small, left containing one to two rays more than the right. 

 Rays in dorsal and anal shorter anteriorly, exserted and forming fringes in 

 more than half of the fins ; dorsal origin on the right side near the posterior 

 nostril, fin little if any deeper than the anal. Anal origin below the bases 

 of the pectorals. Ventrals small ; right farther from the edge, farther 

 forward and larger than the left. Caudal blunt or rounded on the hind 

 margin. 



Grayish brown, with numerous ocellate spots of bluish and of brownish 

 on body and fins. Left pectoral with a brownish band across the basal 

 portion and a broader one near the end. Caudal with the brown spots in 

 irregular transverse series. The above description is taken from a specimen 

 five inches in length. 



On an eight inch individual the snout is almost as long as the eye, and 

 the length of the left pectoral is contained one and three fourths times in 

 the length of the head. This specimen bears three or four badly defined 

 and faint transverse bands of brown, and the whole is grayish freckled with 

 small S2)ots of white (? blue) and of brown. 



