270 FLATFISHES (HETEROSO.MA'IA) 



Body not strongly compressed or translucent in life. Depth of body i| to nearly 

 twice in the length, length of head 3 to 3 J. Snout (in adults) much longer than eye, 

 diameter of which is bi to 9 in length of head and a little less than intcrorbital width. 

 Maxillar\' extending to below posterior edge of eye or beyond, length 2 J to 2 J in that 

 of head. 1 1 to 13 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Scales all cycloid, more 

 or less imbricated ; 115 to 125 in lateral line. Dorsal 73-83 ; anterior rays generally 

 much branched and more or less free from membrane distally. Anal ^b-bi. Dorsal 

 and anal rays mostly scaled on both sides. Pectoral of ocular side with 1 1 or 1 2 rays, 

 length 2 J to 2 J in that of head. First ray of right pelvic opposite .second of left. 

 Caudal rounded. Vertebra; 11-12 -f 23-25. Brownish or greyish, generally with 

 numerous small dark spots or pale areas margined with darker ; usually some scattered 

 small white spots and a series of larger ones at upper and lower edges of body ; fins 

 spotted and mottled with paler and darker brown . 



Type. — Not traced. 



Distribution. — Coasts of l-"uropc, from Scamlmavia (about (14 N ) to the 

 Mediterranean. 



Specimens Ex.'^mined : 



This species very rarely exceeds a length of 2 feet or a weight of 8 pounds, although 

 the Mediterranean larger specimens have lieen recorded. 



5. SCOPHTHALMUS AQUOSUS (Mitchil 

 [Window I^ane,] 



Pleuronectes maculalus [non Schneider^), Mitchill, 1814 



1842, N. H. New York (Fish.), p. 301, pi. xlvii, fig. i 



Sci., S.S., ii, p. 479 ; Storer, 1867, Hist. Fish. Mass 



Goss, 1889, Rep. U.S. Com. Fish., xiv, (1886), p. 258. 

 Pleuronectes aquosus, Mitchill, 1815, Tr. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. York, i, p. 389, pi. ii 



Kept. Fish. X. York, p. 9 ; De Kay, 

 I ; Storer, 1846, Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts 

 :h., p. 204, pi. xxxi, fig. 4 ; Jordan and 



' The following papers describe abnormalities of the Brill: Filhol, 1890, 'Bull. Soc. Bhilom. 

 Paris', (8) ii, p. 54, fig.; Bateson, 1894, ' Proc. Zool. Soc.', p. 246, pi. xvii ; Cunningham and 

 .McMunn, 1S9.1, ' Pliil. Trans. Roy. .Soc.', B.1S4, p. 807 ; Johnstone. 1909, ' Trans. Liverpool Biol. 

 Soc.', xxiu, p. 200, pL 111, fig. 1, text fig. 18 ; Ninni. 1932, ' Bull. .Soc. zool. Fr.', Ivii, p. 76, fig. 



■ An Indian species of Sole. 



