NO. 1484. J A PA NESE FLOUNDERS A ND SOLES— JORDA N A ST A RKS. 225 



ning above posterior margin of pupil of upper e3^e; the longest dorsal 

 and anal ra3'S are at beginning of posterior fourth of body length; 

 pectoral narrow, pointed, variable in length, the upper edge of its base 

 distant one diameter of pupil from upper end of gill slit; ventrals 

 reaching just to front of anal; caudal rounded or double truncate, the 

 middle rays projecting beyond outer rays a distance slightly greater 

 than half eye. 



Color uniform brown, pectoral and caudal growing black toward 

 tips of rays; no color on blind side except black toward end of caudal. 



The type is 18 cm. in length, taken with several cotypes at station 

 3770, Matsushima Bay, in 42 to 45 fathoms. Other cotypes were taken 

 near the same locality at stations o76l>, 3771 (in 61 fathoms), and 3772 

 (in 79 fathoms); at station 3717, off Ose Point, Suruga Bay, in 65 to 

 125 fathoms, and station 3699, Suruga Bay, in 400 to 726 fathoms; 

 others were collected by Jordan and Snyder in the market at Tokyo, 

 several of which were deposited as cot^'pes in the Imperial University 

 at Tokyo. Dried salted specimens were obtained in the market of 

 Tsuruga. 



7y^?6^— Cat. No. 51418, U.S.N.M. Cotypes are Nos. 8390, 8995, 

 8996, Stanfoi-d University. 



(Named for Mr. T. Kitahara, of the Imperial Bureau of Fisheries of 

 Japan.) 



45. MICROSTOMUS STELLERI Schmidt. 



BABAGAREI (OLD WOMAN FLOUNDER). 



Microstomus utelleri Schmidt, Pi.sc. Mar. Orient, 1904, p. 247 (Mayka, Gensan, 

 Shogun, Lake Askold, Shendogan, Gulf of Broughtoii, Gulf of Aneva. ) 



Hah/tat. — Northern Japan to Sakhalin and Korea. 



Head, 4^ in length to base of caudal; depth, 2^;. Upper eye, 4i in 



Fig. 22.— Microstomus stei.leri. 



head; snout to upper eye, 4f; interorbital space, 8i; interorbitalbone, 

 19; maxillary, 4^; dorsal, 92; anal, 76; pores in lateral line, 112. 



Mouth small and curved, the maxillar}^ reaching to below front of 

 lower eye. Teeth on blind side of jaws, extending very slightly around 



