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I-I.ATFISHKS (HETKROSOMATA) 



Close to H. hippoglossus. but with a more slender body, the depth nearly 3 in the 

 length ; length of head about 4. Scales mostly elongate, the small supplementary 

 scales present but not surrounding the primary scales. Dorsal 93-97 (100) ; highest 

 rays J or less than \ length of head. .\nal 73-75 (78). Length of pectoral of ocular 

 side I J to 1 1 in that of head. Olivaceous brown, generally mottled with paler. 



Type. — Zoological Museum, Leningrad. No. 12588. 



Distribution. — North Pacific, from the Bering Sea to the Okhotsk Sea, and from 

 .Alaska to California. 



Specimens Ex.\mined : 



Straits of I-nci. 

 Kodiak, Akiska 

 .Makushin Bav. 

 Tokyo Market. 



U.S. N'at. .Mus 

 Bretherton. 

 U.S. N'at. .Mus 



I have only seen young and half-grown Japanese examples of this species, but 

 follow Schmidt in regarding all Hahbut from the Pacific as representing H. stenolepis. 



(;enus4. HIPPOGLOSSOIDES. 



Hippoglossoides, Gottsche, 1835, Arch. Naturgesch., i (2), p. 164 [Hippoglo. 



Jordan and Evermann, 1898, Bull. U.S. Xat. Mus,, xlvii (3), p. 2614. 

 Citharus (non Bleaker, 1862), Reinhardt, 1838, Afhandl. K. Dansko Vid.-Selsk 



nt'ctt's plaU'ssoidcs , Fabricius]. 

 Urepamipsetta, Gill, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.. Suppl. (Cat. F 



p. 50 [PUttronectcs platessoides, Fabricius] ; Smitt, 1893, Scand. Fish., 

 l-umalopsclla. Gill, 1864, Pror. Acad. Xat. Sci. Philad., .\vi, p. 217 [PlalcM 

 Cvniipietta. (Schmidt m litl.) Jordan and Starks. ii)o6, Pror. U.S. N".u. M 



ilossotdes dubius, Schmidt]. 



Body ovate or rather elongate, compressed. Eyes usually on the right side,' 

 separated by an obtuse, scaled ridge, the upper close to edge of head, but without 

 \'ertical range. Snout naked or with very few scales ; eye-balls not scaled. Olfactory 

 laminae rather few in number, parallel, without central rachis. Mouth rather large, 

 oblique, the length of the maxillary more than J that of head : jaws and dentition 

 about equally developed on both sides : teeth sharp, conical, in a single series in 



rding to Jordan and li\ 



iiple 



H. class.ul,, 



