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naked below; gillrakers veiy feeble; pharyng-eals not very broad, 

 their teeth bluntish, not paved; scales .small, wide apart, partly 

 embedded, each one with 1 to 4 spinules, which are almost erect; 

 anterior scales with 3 to 4 of these spinules; posterior mostly with 1; 

 scales of blind side smoother; only middle rays of dorsal and anal 

 scaly; no accessory lateral line; anal spine present; twentieth anal ray 

 and thirtj^-seventh dorsal ray longest; caudal, double truncate. Brown, 

 nearly plain, the blind side with tinges of lemon yellow. Bering Sea, 

 generally common, south to Vancouver Island and to the Okhotsk Sea. 

 We have specimens from Petropaulski and liobben Reef, Bristol Bay, 

 and Herendeen Bay. 

 {asper, rough.) 



30. LIMANDA PROBOSCIDEA Gilbert. 



Limanda prohoscidea Gilbert, Kept. U. S. Fish Com. for 1893 (1896) j). 460, pi. 

 XXXIII (Bristol Bay, Herendeen Bay). — Jordan and Gilbert, Kept. Fur Seal 

 Expl., Ill, 1898, p. 491 (Bristol Bay, Herendeen Bay). — Jordan and Ever-- 

 MANN, Fish North and Mid. Amer., Ill, 1898, p. 2645 (Bristol Bay, Heren- 

 deen Bay).— Schmidt, Faune MerOch. Jap., 1903, p. 19 (Okhotsk Sea) Pise. 

 Mar Orient, 1904, p. 236 (Mauka, Ustil R., Lutogi, Moloro R. Okhotsk Sea). 



Hahitat. — Bering Sea, Okhotsk Sea. 



Depth, 2i to 2^ in length; head, large, 3 to 3^ in length in a speci- 

 men 7 inches long. D. 63 to (J7; A. 47 to -49; scales, 86 to 95. 

 Resembling L. ferruginca^ but having fewer rays in dorsal and anal, 

 larger scales and longer snout. Profile sharply angulated above front 

 of upper eye, the snout convexly protruding; form varying from very 

 slender to broadly elliptical, the 2 outlines equally curved; caudal 

 peduncle short, widening backward, its least depth twice its length; 

 mouth ol)lique, ma.xillary reaching beyond front of lower eye, 4 in 

 head; teeth narrow, little compressed, in a single series on both sides 

 of the jaw, extending farther back on the blind side; eyes on right 

 side; lower eye well in advance of upper, the diameter of upper eye 

 5i to 6 in head, 1\ in snout; vertical from front of upper eye, falling 

 midway between front of orbit and front of pupil of lower eye; inter- 

 orbital space a very narrow, sharp ridge, naked in females, with a 

 single series of ctenoid scales in males; gillrakers short, about equal 

 to diameter of pupil, 13 or 14 in number, 9 or 10 on lower limb; scales 

 loosely imbricated, ctenoid in males on colored side, smooth in females; 

 blind side of both sexes smooth; head scaled on eyed side in males; the 

 opercle, subopercle, interopercle, and preopercle mostly naked in 

 females; head on blind side naked; rays of vertical tins with a single 

 series of ctenoid scales; dorsal fin beginning slightly behind front of 

 upper eye, the first 3 rays usually higher and wdth membranes more 

 deeply incised than in those which follow; highest portions of both 

 dorsal and anal fins behind the middle of the body; these tins about 

 equal, their longest rays equal to the snout and eye; caudal two-thirds 



