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head; pectorals short, one-third in head; vcntrals reaching beyond front 

 of anal, 3^ in head; the usual small antrorsc spine in front of anal fin. 

 Color light grayish or brownish, thickly covered with small whitish 

 spots; entire left side with margins of dorsal, caudal, and anal fins 

 bright lemon yellow (as in LhtKUida ferrM<jine(i)\ vertical fins grayish, 

 with an occasional dark-browMi \-^\. Specimens described 7i inches 

 long. Bering Sea, liristol Bay, Ilerendeen Bay. 

 {prohoscideus^ having a long snout or pro])oscis.) 



Fia:. II.— LiMANDA IRIDOKUM. 



31. LIMANDA IRIDORUM Jordan and Starks, new species. 



Hah 1 inf. — Seas of Hokkaido. 



Head, 3 to 3i in kMigth to base of caudal; depth, U to 2^. Eye, 6i 

 in head; maxillary, 4 to 4i; snout, 4i to 5. Dorsal, 57 to (33; anal, 

 44: to 4(). Pores of lateral line, m to 72. 



Upper outline of head very concave; the snout produced and turned 

 upward; the backward extending processes from the premaxillaries 

 forming a prominent projection on the upper edge of the snout. A 

 vertical line drawn upward from the posterior edge of the lower eye 

 cuts through the beginning of the posterior fourth of the upper eye. 

 Interorbital space a very high, sharp, naked ridge; smooth between 

 eyes, but becoming rough directly behind them and passing into a 

 rather broad rugose area running above opercles to beginning of 

 lateral line. A similar rough area following ridge of preopercle. A 

 rough ridge, rather high anteriorly, rumiing from snout to beginning 

 of lateral line on blind side of head. Mouth rather large and obliciue; 

 the maxillary reaching to edge of lower orbital cavity. Mandible 

 oblique and rather straight; its posterior end forming a prominent 

 angle on ventral outline; its tip projecting beyond snout. Teeth 

 rather sharp and irregular, in an uneven row^ on both sides of jaws, 



