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ridge; eye large, 4^ in head, the upper with vertical range; month very 
small; maxillary not reaching pupil; teeth trenchant, small, and rather 
narrow, widened at tip; about 45 teeth on left side of lower jaw; few 
teeth on right side of lower jaw. Accessory lateral line long. Pec- 
toral about half length of head; caudal truncate, in head. Fin rays 
entirely scaleless. Scales on body all cycloid, those on cheeks often 
slightly ciliated. Head 3J; depth 2^. D. 74 to 86; A. 54 to 68; Lat. 1. 
105 (tubes). Santa Barbara to Alaska; an abundant species. 
{Parophrys vetuhis Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 140: Parophrys vetulus 
Giiuther, iv, 455: Pleuronecles digrammus Guuther, iv, 445: Parophrys hubbardi Gill, 
Pioc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila.1862, 281.) 
cc. Scales everywhere strongly ctenoid, well imbricated. {Isopsetta* Lock.) 
d. Scales closely imbricate ; accessory lateral line long. 
1282. P. isoSepas (Lockington) J. & G. 
Color brownish, mottled and blotched with darker. Body elliittical, 
much compressed, moderately deep, the curvature very regular; head 
moderate, strongly compressed, the profile little depressed above the 
eye; eyes rather large; interorbital space broad, flattish, with several 
series of scales. Scales on cheeks similar to those on body, rather 
large, ctenoid, and closely imbricated. Month comparatively large; 
maxillary reaching pupil, 3| in head; teeth not large, about 
ical, close-set, in one somewhat irregular series, or partly in two series; 
those on colored side small. Lower pharyngeals each with a double 
row of bluutish teeth. On the blind side the scales are more or less 
ctenoid, sometimes smooth; those on the cheeks weakly ctenoid; most 
of the opercle, the preopercle, interopercle, and subopercle on blhid 
side naked. Lateral line with a very slight arch in front, the depth of 
which is less than one-fifth the length ; accessory branch nearly as long 
as head. Fins rather low, mostly covered with ctenoid scales. Head 4 ; 
depth 2^. D. 88; A. 65; Lat. 1. 88. L. 12 inches. Point Concepcion 
to Puget Sound; rather common in deep water. This species bears 
some resembrance to Hippoglossoides melanostictus. 
{Lepidopsctta umbrosa Lockington, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1879, 106 (not of Girard): 
Lepklopsctta isolepis Lockington, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 325.) 
dd. Scales loosely imbricate ; accessory lateral line very short. ' 
1283. P. iscliyrws J. & G. 
Light olive brown, vaguely clouded with light and dark; fins reddish 
brown; a few roundish dusky blotches on dorsal and anal; iiectoral and 
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*Lockington MSS.: type Lepidopsetta isolepis Lock, {idoi, equal; ipetra, flounder.) 
