428 DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



Limanda ferruginea, (iooi)K * Bean, Cat. Ymh. Essex Co. and Mass. Bay, 1879, 6. — Goode, Proc. IJ. S. Nat. 



Mas., in, p. 473. 

 Platessa rostrala, H. R. Storer, Bostou .lourn. Nat. Hist., v, 18.57, 208, pi. viii, fig. 2. 

 Myzopselta rostrata, Gill, loc. cit. 



Body strongly compressed, its height 2^^ times in its leiigtli. Length of head one- 

 fourth that of body; snout projecting, forming a strong an gh- above upper eye with the 

 descending profile. Teeth conical, closely set, in a single series, on Jaws. Gili-rakers mod- 

 erate, weak, not toothed. Diameter of eye two-thirds of length uf head; the lower ej-e 

 slightly in advance of upper; separated from it by a high, narrow ridge, scaled posteriorly 

 and continuing backward to beginning of lateral line. Scales imbricated: tho.se on right 

 ctenoid, on left, nearly smooth. Lateral line simple, with low arch, whose deptli is less 

 than two-fifths its length, containing about 100 scales. 



Caudal peduncle short, higher than long. Dorsal origin over middle of eye, its middle 

 rays longest; pectoral less than two-fifths as long as head; caudal fin rounded; a strong 

 anal spine. Concealed spine behind ventrals; ventrals of colored side partly lateral, that 

 of white side wholly so. 



Radial formula: D. 80-85; A. 58-62. 



Color, body and fins of right side brownish olive, with irregular, rusty spots; caudal 

 fin, caudal peduncle, and margins of dorsal and anal fins lemon yellow on the left side. 



Specimens from the far North, as described by Storer (P. rostrata), are rounder in out- 

 line, have fewer rays in the vertical fins and a blunter, more prominent snout, and may 

 perhaps sometime be recognized as belonging to a distinct subspecies. 



This species is found inshore on the New England coast in winter, but in summer 

 retreats to deep, cold water. Numerous specimens were taken by the Fish Hairk in 1874, 

 1875, and 1880, south of Cape Cod, in deep water. The most southern locality at that tinu' 

 found was the Pecten ground off Watch Hill, Rhode Island. Examples were obtained 

 from station 984, in 41° 31' N. lat., 00° 28' ^Y.lon., at a depth of 33 fathoms; Cat. No. 28821, 

 U. S. N. M., from station 948, off Penikese Island, Buzzard's Bay, in 7 fathoms; and Cat. 

 No. 28818, U. S. N. M., from station 927, in Vineyard Sound, at a depth of 11 fVithoms. The 

 Albatross secured specimens from station 2440, in 43° 38' N. lat., 49° 49' 30" W. Ion., at a 

 depth of 3;{ fathoms; Cat. No. 33425, U. S. N. M., from station 2082, in 41° 09' 50" N. lat., 

 66° 31' 50" W. Ion., at a depth of 49 fathoms; and Cat. No. 33416, U. S. N. M., from station 

 20.58, in il° 57' 30" N. lat., 67° 58' VV. Ion., at a depth of 35 fathoms; and the Speedwell, 

 from station 57, in Halifax Harbor, at a depth of 16 fathoms; from station 75 in Halifax 

 Harbor, and Cat. No. 24G26, U. S. N. M., from station 196, off Thatcher's Island, in 29 

 fathoms. A single individual (Cat. No. 23767, U. S. N. M.) was also taken at Provincetown, 

 Mass., on July 29, 1879. 



LIMANDA BEANII, Goode. (Figures 35.';, A, B, adult; C, D, young.) 



Limanda Beanii, OooDE, Proc. U. S. N. M., in, sig. 30, 473, Feb. 16, 1881. 



rieiirnnecteH lieanii, .JORDAN & Gilbert, Bull, xvi, U. S. N. M., 835.— Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. Amor., 1885, 

 136. — GOnther, Challenger Report, xxil, 166. 



Body elliptical, with angular outlines. Its height is three-eighths of its length, and 

 slightly more than twice length of head. Its height at the ventrals (25) is one-fourth of its 

 length and less than distance from snout to origin of anal. Its least height, at base of 

 tail (12), is half its height at ventrals. The body is thin, its greatest width (7) not exceed- 

 ing the diameter of the orbit. 



Scales subcircular, small, strongly pectinate on the colored side, cycloid on the blind 

 side, where they are also larger, there being about fifty in the lateral line (behind the curve), 

 while on the colored side there are probably sixty. The lateral line on the colored side 

 makes a very abrupt, conspicuous, angular, high curve over the pectoral fin. Thc^ chord 

 of this arc is nearly as long as the head of the fish, its height half as great. The scales 

 in the lateral line are highly specialized, jiarticularly along the (uirve, which ai)pears to 

 contain about twenty-seven of them, while posterior to this, in the straight portion, there 



