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We have eight .specimen.s taken at Aomori. The type is 28 cm. in 

 length and is numbered 55645, U.S.N.M. Cotjpes are No. 9825, 

 Stanford University, 



Mr. T. Kitahara of the Imperial Fisheries Bureau, sends us a man- 

 uscript description of this species, from a specimen from Aomori. 

 We adopt the specific name chosen by him in place of the one we had 

 devised. 



{angustus, narrow; rostru/a^ snout.) 



34. LIMANDA YOKOHAM.(E (Giinther). 

 AKAGAREI (RED-FLOtTNDER); AMATE OR YAMATE ( FLOUNDER ). 



Pleuronecles yokoliamic Gunther, Shore Fishes Challen^ef, 1880, ji. (19 (Inland 



Sea of Japan, Yokohama). — Otaki, Journ. Bur. Fish., 1897, p. B, pi. vi, 



fig. 4. 

 Limandd ijokohamx .Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, p. 379, 



1900 (Tokyo, Hakodate); Check List, 1901, p. 121 (Yokohama). 

 Pleuronedes japonicus Herzenstein, Bull. Ac. Sci. Petersb., 1894, p. 130 (Hako- 



date, Vladivostok). (Not Pleuronectes japonicus Houttuyn. ) 

 Limandajajjonica ScHMinT, Faune Mer. Jap. Och., 1903, p. 19 (Japan Sea); Pise. 



Mar. Orient, 1904, p. 234 (Mayka, Hakodate, Vladivostok). 

 Limanda herzensteini Jordan and Snydek, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, p. 740, 



1901, after Herzenstein. — Jordan and Starks, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., XXII, 



1904, p. 623 (ilatsushima Bay, scales 84 (88 pores); Tsuruga, Matsushima, 



Hakodate, Aomori, scales 80 to 85). 



Hah'dat. — All shores of Japan, north to Vladivostok, south to 

 Obama. 



Head, \\ to 4| in length to base of caudal ; depth, 2^ to 2^. Upper 

 eye, 5^ in head; snout, 6; maxillary, 4. Dorsal, 65 to 70; anal, 50 to 

 53. Pores in lateral line, 77 to 80. 



Head rather small, a depression above upper eye at beginning of 

 dorsal. Snout short, slightly produced but not so much as in L. 

 angustirostris. Upper eye a little posterior to lower. Interorbital 

 space not very high, slightly convex and covered with small ctenoid 

 scales, its width equal to one-third of long diameter of upper eye. 

 Maxillary reaching a little past front of lower eye. Fifteen or 16 

 teeth on left side of lower jaw, 4 or 5 on right side ; 14 on left side of 

 upper jaw, none on right side. 



Dorsal beginning over anterior third of upper eye. Pectoral of 

 right side from li to 1| in head, that of left side from 2 to 2i in head. 

 Caudal convex, slightly angulated at tips of outer rays. Scales of 

 blind side cycloid, those of eyed side usually strongly ctenoid, some- 

 times cycloid on anterior part of back and cheek. 



Color of eyed side uniform dark brown, or indistinctly l)lotclied with 

 lighter brown. Caudal usually colorless on blind side, but sometimes 

 irregularly placed, and moi'e or less conspicuous even on the l)lind 

 side. In some these spots are very distinct, in others wholly obsolete. 

 Blind side in life washed with rustv red. 



