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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
fifteenth or eighteenth dorsal rays and first 4 or 5 anal rays. In T. ocellatus the rays are not elongate in 
females. 
In 5 specimens, among which this type is not included, the fin and scale counts are as follows: 
Dorsal 88, 89, 90, 92, and 93; anal 72, 72, 73, 75, and 75; pectoral 12, 12, 13, 12, and 12; pores in lateral 
line -, 120, 120, 115, and -. 
Taken at the following stations: Nos. 3832, off the south coast of Molokai, 142 to 153 fathoms; 
3853, off the south coast of Molokai, 115 to 134 fathoms; 3857, Pailolo Channel, 127 to 128 fathoms; 
3858, Pailolo Channel, 128 to 138 fathoms; 3859, Pailolo Channel, 138 to 140 fathom^; 3957, Laysan, 
173 to 220 fathoms; 4077, off the north coast of Maui, 99 to 106 fathoms; 4099, off the north coast of 
Maui, 152 to 153 fathoms; 4101, Pailolo Channel, 122 to 143 fathoms; 4102, Pailolo Channel, 122 to 
132 fathoms; 4103. Pailolo Channel, 132 to 141 fathoms. 
Samariscus, new genus. 
Like Samaris, but the anterior dorsal and ventral rays not greatly produced and filamentous as in 
that genus; scales on blind side strongly ciliated instead of smooth; integument of eyed side, including 
head, body, and fins, thickly beset with minute cup-shaped organs, possibly glandular in function; eyes 
dextral; ventrals symmetrical, laterally inserted, with 5 rays; mouth rather small; teeth in villiform 
bands; lateral line rising anteriorly, but without arch, present on eyed side only; scales very small, 
strongly ciliated on both sides; gill-openings contracted, opercle becoming adnate shortly above base 
of pectoral; gill-rakers nearly obsolete; right pectoral with4rays; left pectoral wanting; fins all scaleless, 
except caudal. 
Samaricus Gilbert, new genus of Pleuronectidx ( corallinus ). 
Samariscus corallinus, new species. Plate 96. 
Type, a male, 110 mm. long, from station 3849, off south coast of Molokai, depth 43 to 73 fathoms; 
type, No. 51596, U. S. Nat. Mus. 
Length of head 21 hundreds of total length without caudal; length of snout, from lower eye 5, from 
upper eye 6; diameter of upper eye 4; interorbital width 2; length of maxillary 8.5; depth of body 37; 
least depth of caudal peduncle 14; length of second dorsal ray 18; length of middle dorsal rays 15; 
length of posterior dorsal rays 18; length of pectoral 19; length of right ventral 17; length of caudal 28. 
D. 76; A. 65; P 4. ; V. 5; pores in lateral line 98. 
Long and slender, with nearly parallel outlines; caudal peduncle deep; head very small; mouth very 
oblique, with strongly protruding lower jaw; maxillary extending below front of pupil; teeth very fine, 
in hands in both the jaws, the “bands wider on blind side; vomer and palatines toothless; anterior 
profile indented above and in front of upper eye, which is placed slightly behind the lower; inter- 
orbital space occupied by a blunt ridge, and completely scaled; preopercular margin free; opercle 
becoming adnate immediately above base of pectoral fin; gill-laminae very scanty, the arches short; a 
slit behind last arch; gill-rakers nearly obsolete, represented by 2 or 3 rudiments only. 
Dorsal fin beginning above front of upper eye; first ray inserted slightly to the blind side of 
ridge, its anterior membrane extending a short distance downward across snout; first 5 or 6 
dorsal rays a little higher than those which follow, and extensively free; both dorsal and anal fins 
increasing in height toward tail, some of posterior rays extending to opposite middle of caudal 
fin; caudal lanceolate, from a broad base; ventrals symmetrical, composed of 5 rays each; right ventral 
much longer than left, but without free or filamentous rays; right pectoral very narrow, containing but 
4 rays. Scales very strongly ciliated and closely imbricated on the right side, less imbricated and less 
spinous on the left. 
Color in spirits, snout and lower jaw pinkish white; head and body coralline-red, mottled and 
spotted with blackish, pearly gray, and pinkish white in indescribable pattern; middle of side with 2 
large cross blotches, their upper half pearly gray, their lower half pinkish, irregularly dark margined; 
a similar smaller spot at base of caudal, dark margined anteriorly; two round black spots with small 
orange center near outlines of body at origin of last third of total length ; near dorsal outline, in advance 
of the round spot, are 2 A -shaped dark markings with apex toward the fin; a similar V-shaped spot 
near lower outline; fins mottled and spotted with colors like those of body, but in finer pattern; 
