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short; its blind side with many excavations and raucous cavities iii the 

 skull, mandible, and preopercle. Month very small ; teeth moderate, 

 incisor-like, broad, equal, close-set, in a single series; no teeth on 

 vomer or palatines. Gill-rakers short, weak. Lower pharyngeals nar- 

 row, with one or two rows of conical teeth. Lateral line nearly 

 straight, simple; scales very small, smooth; dorsal and anal very long, 

 there being more than 90 rays in the dorsal and more than 80 in the 

 anal; caudal fin rounded; anal spine present. Vertebrae in increased 

 number. Northern seas. (/'Au-rt)?, sculptured; zsyaZy, head.) 



1293. O. cynoglOSSUS (Linn.) Gill. Craiy-Jtoundcr. 



Grayish brown; membranes of the fins with dark spots; pectoral of 

 the colored side dark, about half as long as the head. Upper jaw with 

 about 30 teeth; eyes large, separated by a narrow, scaly ridge; opercle 

 aduate to shoulder-girdle for a short distance only. Pectorals very 

 short, not falcate, that of right side about half length of head. Head 

 5 in length; depth 2|. D. 105 (101 to 112); A. 95 (87 to 99). Lat, 1. 

 li_V>. North Atlantic, on both sides; abundant in deep water north- 

 ward. 



(Pleuronectes cynofiloMus Linn. Syst. Nat. i, 259, 1758: Glyptocephalus acarlianus Gill, 

 1'roe. Acacl. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1873, 361: Plcuronectes cynogloxsus Giintlier, iv, 449: Plcu- 

 roncctes t-longa.tu.ii Giiuther, iv, 450: Collett, Norske Nord-Havs. Exp. 200.) 



1294. O. zacliirtis Lockington. 



Uniform brownish, fins darker; blind side everywhere dusted with 

 dark points. Body elongate; snout very blunt; iuterorbital space a 

 very narrow, scaly ridge; mouth somewhat twisted toward the blind 

 side; teeth on both sides of jaws, broad and compressed, in a single 

 row, forming a blunt, continuous edge; about 34 in the lower jaw. 

 I\ves very large, 3| in head. Opercle nearly free from shoulder-girdle. 

 Pectoral of the colored side falcate, longer than the head, more than 

 twice as long as the pectoral of the blind side. Body not slimy. Head 

 I : depth:;. D. 94: to 100; A. 79 to 89; Lat. 1. 138. L. 15 inches. Coast 

 of California; in deep water. 



(Lockington, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. 1879, 88.) 



460. CYNICOCil^OSSUS Bonaparte. 



(Microxltiniiix ( lotlsrlir. iirt-orciipinl l>y .}fii'ri>:itoinir. Brachyprosopon Bleeker.) 

 (Bonaparte. Fauna Italn-a. i~:'.7. I'asc. \i\: typi 1 Pit imnn-fltx mici-imtiimnx Don.) 



This genus agrees with (ili/itfocrjthalua in the elongate body, long 

 fins, and numerous vertebne, differing in the absence of the cavernous 



