KLATFISUMS (HETEKOSOMATA) 



LEPIDOPSETTA BILINEATA (Ayres). 



, Proc. Acad. N.S. Calif., i 

 1857, Proc. Arad. Nat. Si- 



rlateisa bihiuadi, Avrt 



I'laticMlns umhrmus, C.irard, 1857, Proc. Arad. Nat. Sii. Philad.. viii. (1S51.), p. ?(> ; i.ir.ird. 185S, 

 U.S. Parif. R.R. Surv.. x. Fishes, p. 141). 



PlnironecU-s bilincalus, Gunther, 186::, Cat. 1-ish,, iv, p. .14 , . loi.l.iu .mrl Cill.ert, t.s«3. Bull, r.S. 

 Nat. Mus., XVI, p. 833. 



I'ieuToncdt'i umbrosus, Giinther, 1862, Cat. I-'isli., iv, p. 454. 



I.rpidopsclta mnhrosa, Gil!, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., xvi, p. 190. 



l.tpidopsMa bilineata, Gill, 1864, torn, cit., p. 196 ; I.ockington, 1880, Proc. U.S. Nat. .\lus., u, (1870), 

 p. 103; Jordan and Gilbert, l88r, Proc. U.S.Nat. iMus., iii (1880), p. 453; Jordan and Gilbert, 

 188:, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., iv, (1881), p. 68 ; Bean, 1882, lorn. cil.. p. 241 ; Bean, 1884, Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus., vi, (1883), p. 353; Jordan, 1884, Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim.. (Fisheries Fisli. 

 Indust. U.S., i), p. 185, pi. 1 ; Jordan and Goss, 1880, Rep. U.S. Com. Fish., xiv, (1886), p. 28(1, 

 pi. V, tig. II ; Jordan and Evermann, 1898, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlvii (3), p. 2643, pi. ccclxxvi, 

 tigs. 927, 928 ; Evermann and Goldsborough, 1907, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., xxvi, (1906), p. 354, 

 hg. 137 ; Starks, 1911, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vii, p. 204 ; Jordan, Tanaka and Snyder, 1913, 

 J. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, xxxiii (i), p. 325, fig. 274 ; Gilbert, 1915, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlviii, 

 p. 379; Hubbs, 1915, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlviii, p. 476; Starks, 1918, Calif. Fish Game, 

 iv {4), p. 14, fig. 97 ; Villadolid, 1927, Ann. Carnegie Mus., xvii, p. 396, pi. xxxv, fig. 2 ; 

 Soldatov and Lindberg, 1930, Bull. Pac. Sci. Fish. Inst., v, p. 399. 



Pleuroncctes perarcuatus, Cope, 1873, Proc. Atner. Phil. Sec, xiii, p. 32. 



Lepidop^etta bilineata (part), Schmidt, 1904. Pise. Ma 



24^.—Lfpid,ipsctla bd 



Depth of body 2 to 2| in the length, length of head 3J to nearly 4. Upper profile 

 of head more or less concave. Snout as long as or shorter than eye, diameter of which 

 IS 4 to 5i in length of head ; lower eye a little in advance of upper, which is very close 

 to or touches edge of head : interorbital ridge rather high, narrow, covered with 

 rough tuberculate scales : po.stocular ridge scarcely apparent. Maxillary exteniling 

 to below anterior part of eye, length on ocular side 3^ to 4J. on bhnd side 3J to 33 in 

 that of head ; lower jaw rather prominent, 25 to 2J m head. Teeth obtusely conical 



2-8 + 1 5-24 

 or with the tips truncated, rather close-set; dental formula ,_,; 1 i7_^2' '' 



rakers short, stout. 3 to 8 on lower part of anterior arch. Scales varying from 

 cycloid to roughly tuberculate on ocular side, nearly all cycloid on blind side ; scales 



