430 DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



The type specimens (Cat. No. 26102, TJ. S. N. M.) were taken by the Fish Hawk from 

 station 875, in 39° 57' N. hit., 70° 57' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 126 fathoms, and from 

 station 876, in 39° 57' N. hit., 70° 56' W. Ion., at a depth of 120 fathoms. The Albatross 

 seemed examples from station 2398, in 28° 45' N. hit., 86° 26' W. Ion., at a depth of 227 

 fathoms; from station 2399, in 28° 44' N. hit., 86-= 18' W. Ion., at a depth of 196 fathoms; 

 from station 2143, in 9° 30' N. lat., 76° 25' W. Ion., at a depth of 896 fathoms; from 

 station 2400, in 28° 41' N. hit., 86° 07' W. Ion., at a depth of 169 fathoms; from station 



2401, in 28° 38' 30" N. hit., 85° 52' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 142 fathoms; and from station 



2402, in 28° 30' N. lat., 85° 33' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 111 fathoms. The Blake obtained 

 individuals from station XV, off St. Kitt's, in 208 fathoms, and station xxn, off St. Kitt's, 

 in 250 fathoms. 



GLYPTOCEPHALUS, Gottsche. 



Glyptocephalus, Gottsche, Archiv fiir Naturg., I, 183.3, 156. — Bleekbu, Couvp. Rend. Acad. Sci. Amsterdam, 

 xin.— Gill, Ph., . Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1873, 360.— Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 19.— Jor- 

 dan and Gilbert, Ball, xvi, U. S. Nat. Mus., 837. 



Dextral pleuroucctoids with body elongate, greatly compressed. Head small and short, 

 with many sinuses and mucous cavities in skull, as well as on mandible and preopercle on 

 blind side. Mouth very small; teeth iu single series, moderate, incisor-like, equal, close 

 set; vomer and palatines toothless. Gill rakers short, weak. Lower pharyngeals narrow, 

 with 1 or 2 rows of conical teeth. Lateral line simple, nearly straight; scales smooth, 

 small. Dorsal and anal fins elongate, with more than 90 rays iu the dorsal and more than 

 80 in the anal; caudal rounded; an anal spine. 



GLYPTOCEPHALUS CYNOGLOSSUS, (Li.nx.eisi, (Jill. (Figures 356 A, B.) 



Pleuroncctes oculis a dextrin tolas glaber, Artedi, Gen. 11, X. :i; Mus. Ichth. No. 39; Synon. 31, No. 3. 



Pleuroneetea cynoglossus, Linnjeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, 17~.s. 269; ed. xn, 1766, i, 456. — Gcntiier, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mus.. IV, 1S62, 419; Challenger Report, xxn, 1SS7, 166. — DAY, Fishes of Great Britain aud Ireland, 

 ii, 30, pi. cm. 



Glyptocephalus cynoglossus, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1873, 61. — Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., i, 19; Bull. Essex Inst., xi, 1879, 6; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., x, 1883, 195.— Jordan and Gil- 

 bert, loc. cit. — Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., in. 475. — Collett, Norske Nord-llavs Exped., Fiske, 150; 

 Forliandl. Vidcusk. Selsk. Christiania, 1880, 82.-Strom, Norsk. Vidensk. Selsk. Skrift., 1884, 39. 



Platessa cynoglossus, Moreau, Hist. Nat. Poiss. France, m, 296. 



Pleuroiiectes p ola, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. (Suites a Buffon), 1819, IV, 401. 



Platessa pola, Uuvier. — Parnell, Nat. Hist. Fish. Frith o£ Forth, 1838, 210, pi. xxxvui. — Yarrell, Hist. 

 Brit. Fish., 1841, II, 315.— COUCH, Fishes British Islands, in, 1864, 190. 



Pleuroncctes saxicola, Faber, Isis, 1828, 877. 



Glyptocepludus saxicola, GOTTSCHE, loo. cit. 



Pleuronectes nigromanus, Nn.ssox, Prodr. Ichth. Scand., 1832,55. 



Platessa elongata, Yarrell, op. cit. 318.— Guntiier, op. cit. 450. — Coucn, op. cit. 193. 



Glyptocephalus clongatus, Gill, op. cit, 362. 



Glyptocephalus acadianus, Gill, op. cit. 361, aud iu Baird's Report on Fisheries of South Coast of New Eng- 

 land, 1873, 794. 



A Glyptocephalus, having the height of body 3 times (more or less) in its own length; the 

 length of the head about 5J times. Scales small; head scaly, except on snout aud ridge 

 between the eyes. Lateral line straight. Snout shorter than diameter of orbit, which is 

 one-fourth of length of head. Jaws subequal in front, the maxillary shorter than the eye. 

 Upper jaw with truncated incisor-like teeth on the blind side, in a close-set series of about 

 20. Eyes separated by a sharp ridge, the lower somewhat in advance. Origin of dorsal 

 tin about middle of eye, its distance from caudal somewhat less than half depth of caudal 

 peduncle. Middle dorsal rays longest, more than half as long as head; pectoral half as 

 long as head. 



Eadial formula: D. 102—120; A. 87—102; L. hit, 125; Vert. 58. 



Color, grayish-brown ; membranes of the fins with dark spots ; pectoral of the colored 

 side dark. 



The pole-flounder is a well-known cold-water fish of Europe. It was obtained by Strom 



