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and September, and has also been taken in Great South bay, 

 Tlie individuals collected in Great Egg Harbor bay, varied from 

 2 inches to 4 ; ? f inches in length. One of these was dextral and 

 all the rest sinistral as usual. 



Genus LIMAXDA Gottsche 



Teeth chiefly uniserial; lateral line with a distinct arch in 

 front and without accessory dorsal branch; scales imbricated, 

 rough ctenoid ; vertebrae about 40. This genus is closely allied 

 to Pseudopleuronectes, from which it differs only in 

 the presence of an arch on the anterior part of the lateral line. 



365 Limanda ferruginea (Storer) 

 Sand Dab 



Platessa ferruginea STOKER, Rep. Fish. Mass. 141, pi. 2, 1839; Hist. Fish, 

 Mass. 198, pi. XXX, fig. 4, 1867; DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 297, pi. 

 48, fig. 155, 1842. 



Platessa rostrata H. R. STORER, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. V, I, 268, pi. VIII, 

 fig. 2, 1857. 



Pleuronectes ferrugineus GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. IV, 447, 1862; JOB- 

 DAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 834, 1883. 



I,wuinda ferruginea GOODE & BEAN, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 6, 1879; Oceanic 

 Ichth. 427, 1896; GOODE. Fish & Fish. Ind. U. S. I, pi. 49. 18-84; H. M. 

 SMITH, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 108, 1898; JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 

 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. III. 2644, 1898; IV, pi. CCOLXXVII, fig. 929, 1900. 



The length of the body is two and one fifth times its depth and 

 four times the length of the head. Body ovate-elliptic, strongly 

 compressed; teeth small, conic, close set, in a single series on 

 each side in each jaw; snout projecting, forming a strong angle 

 above upper eye with the descending profile; gill rakers of mod- 

 erate length, very weak, not toothed; eye moderate, four and one 

 half in head, the lower slightly in advance of the upper, sepa- 

 rated by a high, very narrow ridge, which is scaled posteriorly 

 and is continued backward as an inconspicuous but rough ridge 

 to the beginning of the lateral line; scales imbricate, nearly uni- 

 form, those on right side rough ctenoid, those on left side nearly 

 or quite smooth, scales on body rougher than on cheeks; caudal 

 peduncle short, higher than long; dorsal inserted over middle of 

 eye, its niiddle ray highest; pectoral less than two fifths length 

 of head; caudal fin rounded; anal spine present; lateral line 

 simple, with a rather low arch in front, the depth of which is 



