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As before remarked, Euchalarodus Putnami is not even specifically 

 distinct from Fleuroncctcs glaherj a species well distinguished from Pleu- 

 ronectes platessa by its more continuous and jH'onounced oculo-scapular 

 ridge, its radial formula, and other characters. The synonymy of Pleii- 

 ronectes gldber is as follows : 



Pleuronectes glaber, (Storcr) Gill. 



Flate^sa f/lahni, Storei:, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hisi. i, 1843, p. 130; Mem. Ainer. 



Acad, viii, '393, pi. xxsi, tig. 1; Hist. Fislies Mass. 1667, p. 199, pi. xxxi, lig. 1. 



— PuTXAM, Bull. Essex Inst, vi, 1874, p. 12. 

 Liopsetia glahra, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 217. 

 Pleuronectes (jlahcr, Gill, in Eep. U. S. Com. Fish and Fisheries, 1873, p. 794. — 



GooDE & Bean, Amer. Jour. Sci. and Arts, xiv, 1877, p. 476; xvii, Jan. 



1879, p. 40. 

 Euchalarodus Putnami, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pldla. 1864, pp. 216 and 221; 



in Rep. U. S. Com. Fish and Fisheries, 1873, \^. 794. — Putxaji, in Storer, 



Hist. Fish. Mass. 1867, p. 279. — Goode &, Bean, Amer. Jour. Sci. and 



Arts, xiv, Dec. 1877. 



The smooth plaice, PleuronectcH glaber^ (Storer) Gill, was described by 

 Storer from the coast of Massachusetts. Specimens from Salem Harbor, 

 ISTovember 15, 1872, are in the Museum of Peabody Academy. The 

 U. S. Fish Commission found it very abundant, during the summer of 

 1872, in Bluelight Cove, Casco Bay, Maine, and they seined the young at 

 Salem in August, 1877. Mr. C. A. Putnam of Salem took specimens 

 at Beverly Bridge in January, 1858, — the specimens which formed the 

 types of Euclialarodus Putnami. I add the following from my notes : 



December 15, 1877, ten specimens were fonnd among the flat-fishes 

 (Pseudoplcuronectes americanus) in Washington Market, which had come 

 from Portland, Me., by way of Fidton Market, Xew Yorl;. Xine of these 

 were gravid females, and one wat? a male, which was smaller than the 

 average of the females, and hyd rougher scales. 



December 18, 1877, thirteen specimens were again taken from among 

 the flat-fishes, nearly all of them fi'om one stand. All were females, 

 most of them gravid. The weight of the largest was 23 ounces avoirdu- 

 pois; of its spawn, 7 ounces. The ovary of the blind side extended from 

 the origin of the ventral to the end of anal (7| inches). The ovary of 

 the eyed side was G-^ inches long. The eggs were one-thirtieth of an 

 inch in diameter. The length of the fish was 13 J inches. The smallest 

 of the thirteen weighed 3| ounces, and contained eggs about as large as 

 those of the preceding. There is considerable variation in the extent of 

 the ventrals. 



January 10, 1878, two fresh specimens were received through ifr. C. 

 F. Putnam, from Salem, Mass., a male and a graAdd female. The weight 

 of the male is 5 ounces; of the female, 21. They are called "fool-fish" 

 in Salem, because they will bite even at a rag. It is said that they ap- 

 pear about Christmas in numbers, and remain only a short time. They 

 l)robably come into the harbor to spawn. There is no record of the oc- 



