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FLATFISHES (HETEROSOMATA) 



brownisli. with or without iiiihstiiut darker blotches ; median lins with large brown 

 blotches, the rays tipped witli white ; youiiH with a distinct ocellus on middle <if 

 lateral line. 



Type. — I'nited States National .Museum, No. 209715. 



Distribution. — Coast of C.difornii, from San Francisco to the Gulf of California 



Specimens E.xamined : 



Eigenrnann. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 1 (31° N., 114" W.). U.S. Nat. Mus. 



Also one from off San Martin Isd , flower California (Calif. i'Xcad. Sci ),' 



4. FLEUKOMCHTHVS XEi'HELUS, Starks and Thompson. 



.= Pleuromchthys canusus (part), Jordan and Gilbert, 1S82, I'roc. U.S. Nat. Mus., iv, (1881), p. 68 ; 



Jordan and Gilbert, 1883. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xyi, p. 830; Jordan and Goss, 1889, Rep. 



U.S. Com. Fish.,xiy,(:886),p. 2S2 ; Jordan and Evermann, 1898, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlyii (3), 



p. 2638. 

 Ph-uroiuchllns Hcphdus. Starks and Thompson, mo. Pro. . U.S. \.il. Mus., xxxyiii, p. jS;, fig. i. 



Depth of body twice in the length, length of head 4 J. Upper eye about level 

 with lower, scarcely entering dorsal profile of head, which is evenly curved or ver\' 

 slightly notched ; diameter of eye about i^ in length of head : interorbital ridge low, 

 without prominent spines, but with indications of tubercles at its anterior and posterior 

 ends : no prominences round the eyes or above the operculum. Maxillary extending 

 to below anterior part of eye, length on ocular side 3^, on blind side 3 j in that of head : 

 lower jaw scarcely projecting, about 2J in head. Teeth in 3 or 4 rows on blind side 

 of both jaws : a single row on ocular side of low'er jaw. 9 to 1 1 gill-rakers on lower 

 part of anterior arch. 66 (66 to 75) scales in lateral line. Posterior prolongation of 

 supratemporal branch of lateral line extending to below thirty-nintli ray of dorsal 

 fin. Dorsal (66) 70 (75) ; origin just below level of nostrils, about 6 rays being on 



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iidfbtcd to Mr. Templuton Crocker for the opp.irtunity of t 



ing this fish. 



