362 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The following enumeration of the radial formulae of eleven specimens 



of Limanda ferruginea should be placed on record : 











Pectoral rays. 





C$t. No. 



Locality. 



Dorsal 

 raws. 



Anal 

 rays. 







Ventral 

 rays. 











Eight, 



Left. 





21020 



Halifax, 5F. S 



85 



65 



12 





6 



do 



81 



59 



11 



10 



6 





do 



79 



57 



11 



10 



6 





do 



85 



63 



11 



10 



6 



21902 



Gloucester, Mass 



83 



63 



10 



10 



6 



21903 



do 



87 



66 



12 



11 



6 





do 



80 



60 



13 



12 



6 





do 



82 



61 



11 



11 



6 





do 



83 



61 



11 



11 



6 





do 



73 



58 



11 



10 



6 





do 





59 



11 



10 



6 



Caudal 

 rays. 



Certain individuals exhibit black spots instead of the ordinary mark- 

 ings of yellowish red ; this may be sexual, but is more probably due to 

 the color of the bottom on which they live. Adult individuals almost 

 invariably exhibit markings of a lemon-yellow hue on the white under 

 side of the body, contiguous to the tail. 



The synonymy of the species stands as follows : 



Limanda ferruginea, (Storer) Goode & Bean. 



Platessa ferruginea, Stoker, Report on the Ichthyology and Herpetology of 



Massachusetts, 1839, p. 41, pi. 2. — DeKay, Zoology of New York, Fishes, 



1842, p. 297, pi. xlviii, fig. 155. 

 Plcuronectes ferruginous, Guntiier, Catalogue of the Fishes in the British 



Museum, iv, 1862, p. 447. 

 Myzopsctta ferruginea, Gill, Catalogue Fishes of Eastern Coast N. A. 1861, 



p. 51 ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 18G4, p. 217. 

 Platessa rostrata, H. R. StORER, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist, vi, 1850, p. 2G8, 



pi. viii, fig. 2. — GCNTHER, op. t it. p. 447 (considers it to be allied to Plea- 



ronectes limanda). 



Myzopsetta rostrata, Gill, Catalogue Fishes of Eastern Coast N. A. 18Gl,p. 51. 

 Limanda rostrata, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 18G4, p. 217. 



Limanda ferruginea is closely related to Limanda vulgaris, Gottsche, 

 from which it is distinguished by its shorter pectorals, smaller scales, 

 lower dorsal and anal fins, and the greater average number of rays in 

 those fins. It is certainly a strongly marked geographical subspecies, 

 and must for the present be regarded as a distinct species. 



December, 1878. 



ON THE IDENTITY OF RROHIUIITS AITI ERIC ANUS, GILL, IV IT II 

 RRON1VUUS RROSJIE, (Mt7LLEB) WHITE. 



By O. BROWN GOODE and TARLETON H. BEAN. 



Dr. D. H. Storer, in his Report on the Ichthyology and ilcipetology 

 of Massachusetts, published in 1839, catalogued the common cusk of 

 the New England coast under the name Brosmius vulgaris, considering 



