822 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
1205. P. opliryas J. & G. (sp. uov.) 
Color brownish gray, mottled with darker; fins dusky, with round, 
dark blotches. Body moderately elongate, thickish ; mouth not very 
large, oblique; each jaw armed with a single row of large, sharp, wide- 
set teeth, the front teeth enlarged and canine-like, about 8 on each side 
of lower jaw; lateral teeth of upper jaw minute, close-set; chin iiromi- 
nent; maxillary not reaching beyond eye, scarcely half length of head. 
Diameter of eye about equal to length of snout, 5^ in head. Dorsal tin 
low, beginning over front of eye, its first rays about 5 in head; anal 
spine obsolete. Gill-rakers rather long and slender, 5 -f- 14 in number, 
the longest two-thirds eye, 3| in maxillary, their length 4 to 5 times their 
breadth at base. Scales very small, not ctenoid, with few accessory 
smaller ones; curve of lateral line 4^ in straight part. Interorbital space 
a rather narrow bony ridge, anteriorly naked, not wider than pupil (in 
specimen 8 inches long), the ridge extending backward, forming a con- 
spicuous elevated rim behind upper eye. Pectoral about half length of 
head; caudal |. Head 3|; depth 2^. D. 88; A. 07; Lat. 1. 90. One 
specimen known; from Charleston, S. C. 
1266. P. <lcinf ateas (L.) J. & G. — Common flounder. 
Blackish olive, mottled and blotched with darker; fins similarly 
marked, the pectorals more or less distinctly barred. Body oblong, 
modervitely compressed; mouth wide, oblique, the mandible very heavy 
and much projecting; 8 to 10 teeth on each side of lower jaw, the two 
anterior teeth very long; anterior teeth of upiier jaw strong, but smaller 
than those in the lower jaw ; the lateral teeth very small and close-set. 
Eyes small, shorter than snout, about one sixth length of head, and 
in the adult as wide as the broad, flattisli, scaly, interorbital area; the 
latter is much narrower in the young. Scales small, cycloid ; accessory 
scales few. Gill-rakers lanceolate, dentate, stoutish, wide-set, much 
shorter than eye, the longest 24 times as long as broad at base, 5^ in 
in maxillary, about 2 + 10 in number; pectoral fin about as long as 
maxillary, which extends beyond eye, and is rather more than half 
length of head. Dorsal low, its anterior rays somewhat exserted, but 
short; caudal double concave, the middle rays iiroduced. Anal spine 
obsolete; ventrals small. Fins all scaly. Head 3|; depth 2+ D. 88 
(S5 to 93) ; A. 03 (05 to 73) ; Lat. 1. about 100. New England to Texas 
and West Indies; ev-ery where one of the commonest species. 
(rieni'onectes den tutus L. Syst. Nat. i, 458: Platessa ocellaris Dokay, Now York Fauna, 
Fisli. 1842: Pseudorhomhns dentatus and P, ocellaris Giinther, iv, 425-430: Chamopsctla 
