NO. UHi. JAPANESE FLO UNDERS AND SOLES— JORDAN & STARR'S. 187 



spirits, centers of the scales light gray, the margins dark brown; fins 

 light or dusky, the vertical fins with conspicuous black bars, parallel 

 w ith the rays, these most evident on under side where the pigment seems 

 principally to occur, and are seen through the fin more faintly on the 

 colored side; lining of cheeks and gill cover of colored side dusky; 

 peritoneum gray. 



Of this species, we have specimens from Mororan, Hakodate, Same, 

 and Iturup Island. It is common in northern Japan, its range 

 nowhere meeting that of VeraKper vatiegatm. 



(Named for Jetferson Franklin Moser, U. S. Navy, lieutenant-com- 

 mander, in charge of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, 

 and a member of the United States Fur Seal Commission for 1896.) 



8. ACANTHOPSETTA Schmidt. 



Arnnthop^ettn Schmidt, Faune Mer. Och., 1903, p. 19; name only {iiadesJinyi). 



This geiuis is allied to Verasper: Mouth large, teeth small, in one 

 row; lateral line with a long low arch in front; scales moderate, cte- 

 noid; interorbital space scaled; anal spine strong; dorsal rays about 

 75; anal rays about 60; caudal fin rounded. Ochotsk Sea. 



[(XKavBa, spine: ff/TTa , flounder.) 



17. ACANTHOPSETTA NADESHNYI Schmidt. 



loanthojiscttu nadetfJmyi Schmidt, Faune Mer. Ochutsk, Jajjan, 1908, ]>. 19, (Japan 

 Sea, Vladivostook, mouth of Amur, etc.); name only; Pise. Orient., Mar. 

 1904, p. 237, pi. V, fig. 1 (Vladivostok, Aneva, Askuld, Khaliz, mouth of 

 Amur, Broughton Gulf, Paratondra, etc. ) 



Ilahltat. — Sea of Ochotsk. 



Head, 3i in length to caudal base; depth, 2i; eye, -If in head; snout 

 to upper e3^e, 5; maxillary, 2|; dorsal, 74; anal, 58; pores in lateral 



line to base of caudal, 69. 



Upper eye very slightl}^ posterior to lower; maxillary reaching past 

 anterior edge of eye, scarcely to pupil; interorbital space narrow and 

 rounded, covered with small scales; its width less than half the diam- 

 eter of pupil. 



Origin of dorsal above middle of upper eye; longest dorsal rays 

 2yV in head; pectoral broadly rounded, its ^ength 1| ir. head; caudal 

 rounded, equal in length to head; lateral line with a lo./ arch in front 

 contained 3 times in straight part. Uniform dusky without markings; 

 dorsal and anal a little lighter than the body. 



The species is unknown to us. It is here described from the plate 

 published by Schmidt. 



{^Nadesluiijl, a personal name.) 



