FISHES FROM BERING SEA AND KAMCHATKA. 



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Head compressed, the nape high, cheeks vertical without projecting lateral ridges; mouth large, 

 the maxillary reaching vertical from posterior margin of pupil. Opercle without evident spine. Bar- 

 bel small. 



First dorsal ray short, the following 6 rays produced and filamentous, their tips reaching middle 

 of tail. Ventrals inserted slightly behind base of pectorals, the rays all filamentous, the longest nearly 

 twice as long as the head. Pectoral rays short, equal, inserted along the strongly convex margin of 

 the kidney-shaped lobe which terminates the stalk. 



Color dark brown on the back, lighter on the sides; abdomen black. 



Only the type taken. 



PLEURONECTID/E. 

 Hippoglossoides elassodon Jordan & Gilbert. 



List of Stations. 



About the Komandorski Islands and off the east coast of Kamchatka. 



Lepidopsetta bilineata (Ayres). 



List of Stations. 



Dredged on Petrel Bank and the Komandorski Plateau; taken with the seine at Unalaska, Nazan 

 Bay, Atka Island, and in .\vatcha Bay, Kamchatka. 



Llmanda aspera (Pallas). 



Avatclia Bay, Kamchatka, and at station 4798, on the codfish banks on the west coast of Kam- 

 chatka (51° 37' N.; 156° 21' E.); depth, 25 fathoms. 



Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus Pallas. 



List op Stations. 



Seined in Avatcha Bay, Kamchatka, and dredged in shallow water outside the bay. 



