PLEURONECTIN^ 



323 



blind side of head : highest rays about § length of head. Anal (47) 53 (56) ; first 

 interhaemal spine fairly prominent. Pectoral of ocular side with 11 rays (8 branched), 

 length if in that of head. Pelvics with 6 rays. Caudal with 19 rays (13 branched), 

 rounded ; caudal peduncle twice as deep as long. Intestine of moderate length, not 

 much coiled. Olive brown, irregularly mottled with darker ; a large black spot, 

 indistinctly ocellated, just in front of middle of lateral line ; median fins mottled and 

 spotted with darker, the rays narrowly tipped with white ; caudal with a large round 

 dusky spot, and with a dark bar across the bases of the rays ; pectoral indistinctly barred. 



Type. — United States National Museum. No. 74606. 



Distribution. — Puget Sound. 



Specimen Examined : 



(166 I 



I.}. Paratype 



San Ju 



Amer. Mus. Kat. Hist. 



5. PLEURONICHTHYS CCENOSUS, Girard. 



PlaironicUhys comosus, Girard, 1856, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., vii, (1854), p. 139 ; Girard, 

 1858, U.S. Pacif. R.R. Surv., x. Fishes, p. 151 ; Lockington, 1880, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., ii, 

 (1879), p. 97 ; Jordan and Gilbert, 1881, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., iii, (1880), pp. 50, 453 ; Starks 

 and Thompson, 1910, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxxviii, p. 284 ; Hubbs, 1916, Univ. Calif. Pub. 

 Zool., xvi, (13) p. 169 ; Starks, 1918, Calif. Fish Game, iv (4), p. 11, fig. 92. 



Parophrys ccenosa, Giinther, 1862, Cat. Fish., iv, p. 456. 



PUuronichthys canosvs (part), Jordan and Gilbert, 1882, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., iv, (1881), p. 68 ; 

 Jordan and Gilbert, 1883, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xvi, p. 830 ; Jordan, 1884, Nat. Hist. Aquat. 

 Anim. (Fisheries Fish. Indust. U.S., i), p. 189 ; Jordan and Goss, 1889, Rep. U.S. Com. Fish., 

 xiv, (1886), p. 282 ; Jordan and Everniann. 1898, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlvii (3), p. 2638. 



Fig. 239. — PUuronichthys cixnosus. B.M. (X.H.) 9 



Depth of body about twice in the length, length of head 4. Upper eye a little 

 behind lower, scarcely entering dorsal profile of head, which is nearly straight ; 

 diameter of eye 4 in length of head ; interorbital ridge rather high, without spines, 

 except for a blunt one at posterior end, directed backwards and somewhat downwards ; 

 generally no prominences round eyes or above operculum ; sometimes a small blunt 

 tubercle behind upper eye. Maxillary extending to below anterior part of eye, 



