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upper eye 5| to 6 in head, \\ in snout ; vertical from front of upper eye, 

 falling midway between front of orbit and front of i)upil of lower eye; 

 interorbital space a very narrow, sharp ridge, naked in females, with a 

 single series of ctenoid scales in males ; gill rakers short, about equal to 

 diameter of pupil, 13 or 14 in number, 9 or 10 on lower limb ; scales loosely 

 imbricated, ctenoid in males on colored side, smooth in females; blind 

 side of both sexes smooth ; head scaled on eyed side in males ; the ojierde, 

 subopercle, interopercle, and x»reopercle mostly naked in females; head 

 on blind side naked; rays of vertical fins with a single series of ctenoid 

 scales; dorsal fin beginning slightly behind front of upper eye, the first 3 

 rays usually higher and with membranes more deeply incised than in 

 those which follow; highest portions of both dorsal aud anal fins behind 

 the middle of the body; these fins about equal, their longest rays equal 

 to the snout and eye; caudal | head; pectorals short, \ in bead; ventrals 

 reaching beyond front of anal, 'i\ in head ; the usual small antrorse spine 

 in front of anal fin. Color light grayish or brownish, thickly covered 

 with small whitish spots; entire left side with margins of dorsal, caudal, 

 and anal fins bright lemon yellow (as in /(rriKjinra) ; vertical fins grayish, 

 with an occasional dark-brown ray. Specimens described 7+ inches long. 

 Bering Sea; several specimens {roni Alhatross Stations 3239 and 3240, in 

 Bristol Bay, in 114^ to 14^ fathoms; 1 young individual from Herendeen 

 Bay. (Gilbert.) (proioscidcus, having a long snout or proboscis.) 



Limanila jfroboxcidea, Gilbert, Eeport U. S. Fish Comiii. 1893 (1896), 460, pi. 33, Bristol 

 Bay and Herendeen Bay. (Coll. Albatross.) 



3016. LIMANDA BEANII, Goode. 



Head 5^ ; depth 23. D. 64 ; A. 63 ; scales 88. liody elliptical, with angu- 

 lar outlines, strongly compressed; head very short; snout abbreviated; 

 mouth small, subvertical; teeth small, apparently in two rows, chiefly on 

 the l)lind side of lower jaw; eyes large, as long as mandible; interorbital 

 space very narrow. Dorsal fin beginning about pupil, its rays long, wide 

 apart, exserted; right ventral near the median line; caudal )»road, fan- 

 shaped. Lateral line with an abrupt curve, the length of which is twice 

 its height and about equal to length of head, its scales highly specialized; 

 lateral line on colored side less developed; scales small, strongly ctenoid 

 on the right side; larger and cycloid on the blind side. Grayish, mottled 

 with darker; a conspicuous black blotch on the outer rays of caudal on 

 each side. (Goode.) Deep water oft" the coasts of New England; not 

 common. (Named for Dr. Tarleton Hoffman Bean.) 



Limanda beanii, GooDE, Proc. IJ. S. Nat. Mu.s. 1880 (Feb. 16, 1881), 473, southern coast 

 New England, Fish Hawk Stations, 875, 876 ; GoODE & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 

 428, pi. 102, flgs. 355a and 355b, 1896. 



Pleuronectcs beani, Jordan & Gujseet, Synopsis, 835, 1883; Jordan & Goss, Review 

 Flounders and Soles, 288, 1889. 



1036. PSEUDOPLEURONECTES, Bleeker. 

 (Winter Flounders. ) 



Pseudopleuronectes, Bleeker, Comptes Eendus Acad. Amst., Pleiiron., 7, 1862 (2}lam(t). 



Body oblong, with firm flesh; the scales firm, regularly imbricated, 

 strongly ctenoid on eyed side in both sexes; fin rays scaly; mouth small; 



