NO. 1 JS4. JA I'ANESE FLO UNDEli^S AND SOLES—JORDAN c(- ST ARKS. 171 



brown on the rays; not involving- the membrane; caudal with three 

 indistinct dark cross-bands; pectoral with fine, inconspicuous, dusky 

 spots; a dark spot on base of rays. 



This species may be known from Seieop.s <jrandi.s(puuna by the 

 smaller scales and more posterior upper qjq,. 



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-Scoops kobensis. 



Ti//ic. — The only specimen was collected at Kobe. It is s;3 nun. in 

 leno'th and is lumjbered 1)S'22, Stanford University. 



3. ENGYPROSOPON Gunther. 



Eii(/i/j>ri)soi)<>ii GvNTiiEn, Cat. Fi^:h, IV, 18(54, i>. 4;>1 (mogkii). 



Body elliptical, covered with rather large, tirm scales; teeth two- 

 rowed; gillrakers long and slender; interorbital space narrow; tin 

 rays not produced in either sex. Sexes similar. Small sand-colored 

 flounders of the Pacitic, allied to Ai-noglossus, but less fragile in habit, 

 and with the teeth biserial, not sharp and uniserial as in Arnoglossus. 

 The interorbital space, though narrow, is ])roader than mArnoglossns, 

 and in some species somewhat concave. 



{eyyvg^ contracted; Ttpoacsonov^ forehead.) 



4. ENGYPROSOPON IIJIM^ Jordan and Starks. 



Lhgypwsopon iijinuf Jordan and Stark.s, Bull. U. S. Fi?h Conni., XXII, litOJ, 

 p. 626. pi. viTi, fig. 1 (Suruga Bay, Japan). 



Head, 4 in length; depth, 2.33 to 2.5; I). 80 to SU; A. CK to 72; 

 scales, 50 to 53; eye, 3 in head; maxillary, 3.5; pectoral of eyed side, 

 1.2; of blind side, 3; ventral, 2.25; caudal, e(iual to head. Anterior 

 profile evenly carved, the orbits not reaching to its edge; eyes sepa- 

 rated by a narrow sharp ridge, the lower the more anterior; mouth 



