2G60 Bulletin //, United States National Miiseuin. 



also closely related, but the typical species, Pseita maxima, is a large 

 robust fish, scaleless and. beset with bony tubercles. {Ad<l>oi, crest ; ipifzra, 

 turbot. ) 



3029. LOPHOPSETTA MACULATA (Mitcbill). 

 (Window Pane.) 



HeadSi; depth 1?. D.60; A.52; scales 85; eye 4 in head; pectoralli^; 

 highest dorsal rays 1^; highest anal rays If; interorbital space i eye. 

 Body broadly rhomboid, strongly compressed, translucent in life; mouth 

 large, the maxillary reaching nearly to posterior margin of (>ye, maxillary 

 of eyed side with a bony tubercle on its anterior end; jaws subequal, the 

 lower with a sharp knob at symphysis; teeth in each jaw in 1 series 

 laterally, in a very narrow band in front; interorbital sjiace rather broad, 

 slightly concave, its posterior third or fourth with scales; gill rakers 

 short and slender, about 8+^5; maxillary, mandibles, snout, and the 

 greater part of interorbital naked; scales on head and body cycloid, 

 loosely imbricated, those on the blind side a little smaller. Anterior rays 

 of dorsal produced, their ends branched and free, the first on tip of snout, 

 the rays at the beginning of posterior third of fin the highest; origin of 

 anal directly under angle of preopercle; base of ventrals long, that of the 

 eyed side extending along ridge of body from notch in isthmus to front of 

 anal, base of ventral on blind side shorter; pectoral reaching past curve 

 on eyed side, its mate much smaller ; caudal rather long. Color light olive 

 brown, almost translucent, everywhere marbled with paler, and with 

 many small, irregular, sharply defined black spots ; dorsal, anal, and 

 caudal w^ith larger, round, blended spots of dark brown; pectoral witli 

 brown, interrupted cross lines. This small fiounder much resembles the 

 European Brill (Bofhus rhomhus), but is smaller, thiuner, and more trans- 

 lucent in body. Its weight rarely exceeds a pound or two, and its value as 

 a food-fish is but slight ; nevertheless, it is a near ally of the European 

 Turbot {Pseiia maxima) , awA in its technical characters it very closely agrees 

 with the latter species. Atlantic coast of United .States, from Casco Bay 

 to Honth Carolina; common. (jnacHZrt<»s, spotted. ) 



rievrunectes maculatvs, MrrcHiLL, Kept, in part, Fish. N. Y ., 9, 1814, New York ; De Kav, 



Kew York Faniia: Fishes, 301, pi. 47, fig. 151, 1842; Storer, Synopsis, 479, 1846; 



Storer, Hist. Fisli. Mass., 204, 1867; Jordan & Goss, Review of Flounders and Soles, 



258, 1889. 

 Plevronecfes aquosus, :Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. T.,i, 1815, 389, pi. 2, fig. 3, 



New York. 

 Lopliopsetta maculata, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci.Phila. 1862, 216; Ibid, lS6i, 220; Jordan &. 



(iiLBERT, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 371. 

 Bothvs maeiilatus, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 815, 1883. . 

 lihumbvs aquosus, Guntheh, Cat., iv, 411, 1862. 



1044. PLATOPHRYS, Swainson. 



Siilea, Rafinesque, Indiee di Ittiologia Siciliana, 52, 1810 (rhombolde) ; not of Quensel, 



1806. 

 Platophrys, Swainson, Nat. Hist. Class'n Fishes, 11, 302, 1839 (ocellatus). 

 I'eloria, Cocco, Intorno ad Alcuni Pesci del mar di Messina, Giorn. del Gahin., 1844, 21-30, 



Lettere di Messina (hecJceli, a larval form of P. podas) ; not Pelorus of Montfort, 



1808. 



