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pointed; that of eyed side If to If in head; that of blind side two- 

 thirds as long- as its mate and contained 2^ in head. Ventral of blind 

 side placed more anteriorly and farther from the ventral ridge of body 

 than its mate. Caudal rounded. 



Color rather light gray, everywhere spotted with irregular, or more 

 or less round spots of dark brown. These are sometimes very small 

 and scattered, sometimes lighter in the center, or arranged in irregular 

 rings, or sometimes large and narrowly separated. The edges of the 

 vertical tins are dusky or dark brown on the blind side. A few speci- 

 mens were colored and spotted on both sides and in these cases the 

 front of the dorsal is usually not on the blind side, but is on a free lobe 

 which overhangs the head; the upper eye is more on the dorsal outline 

 of the head than in normal examples; the ventrals are usually more 

 symmetrical; and the pectorals are both of the same length, these 

 characters possibly indicating that the lish may swim on either side. 



We have numerous specimens from Kobe, Aomori, Hiroshima, 

 Nagasaki, Hakodate, Onomichi, Wakanoura, Tsuruga, Tokyo, and 

 Misaki. This species is one of the commonest of the small flounders 

 of Japan. 



{c07'nuhis, horned. ) 



18. LEPIDOPSETTA Gill. 

 Lepidopsetta G\iaj, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, p. 195 {umbrosus). 



Body robust; mouth small. Teeth stout, conical, little compressed, 



Fig. 13.— LEPIDOPSETTA BILINEATA. 



bluntish, in one series, rather irregularly placed. Lateral line with a 

 distinct arch in front and accessor}^ dorsal branch; scales imbricated, 

 rough ctenoid, smooth in the very 3'^oung. A single species, abundant 

 on the Pacific coasts. It is close to Llttianda^ from which the acces- 

 sory branch of the lateral line albne separates it. 

 (XsTtig^ scale; tpt/TTa^ flounder.) 



