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Measurements — Coutiuued. 



PLEURONECTID^. 



5. Hippoglossus vulgaris, Fleiniug. 



Fleiironectcs h'qjpoglossns, LiNN. Syst. Nat. ed. x, i, p. 269 



Hippoglessnn vulgaris, Fleming, Brit. Animals, p. 199. — Gunther, Cat. FiBli. 



Brit. Mus. iv, 1862, p. 408. 

 Hippoglossus americanus, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 220. 



The Xew London lialibnt- smacks obtain many halibnt on the south 

 part of George's Banks and the neighboring shoals. An individual was 

 taken, years ago, on the outer side of Fisher's Island, Connecticut. The 

 halibut may, in all pi^obability, be found to be abundant ou the edge 

 of the continental slope south of Cape Cod, since here have been re- 

 cently obtained nearly all the species most constantly associated on the 

 northern halibut grounds on the outer edges of La Have, Brown's, Sable 

 Island, and other banks off the coast of ^ova Scotia and Newfound- 

 land. 



6. Hippoglossoides platessoides ( Fabricius) Gill. 



Plcuronecfes platessoides, Fabricius, Fauna Groenlaudica, 1780, p. 164 (excel- 

 lent deserij)tion). — "Videiisk. Selsk. Naturv. och Matheni. Afhandl. i, 

 p. 50, j)l. ii, lig. 2." 



Cilharus platessoides, Reinhardt, iMd. vii, 1838, ]). 130. — Kroyer, iu Gaiiuard, 

 Voyages en Scaudiuavie, etc. jils. xxi (excellent lignre). 



Drepano(p)setta platessoides, Gill, Cat. Fish. E. Coast N. America, 1831, p. 50. 



Hippoglossoides platessoides, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. '^Yi. — 

 GOODE & Bean, Cat. Fisli. Essex Inst. 1879, p. 7. 



Platessa dentata (not Fleuronecfes dentatus, Mitchill), Storer, Rep. Fish. 

 Mass. 1839, j). 143 ; Hist. Fish. Mass. 1867, p. 197, pi. xxx, tig. 3. 



Hippoglossoides dentatus, Gill, Cat. Fish. E. Coast N. A. 1861, p. r)0. — Gun- 

 ther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. iv, 1862, p. 40>i. 



Pomatopsetta dentata, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1864, p. 217 (with (U-f. of 

 Pomatopsetta, p. 21()). 



Hippoglossoidex limandoides, Goode &. Bean, Anier. Journ. Sci. & Arts, xvii, 

 187(;, p. 39. 



Not unusual in deep water off" Southern ^Massachusetts and Rhode 

 Island, ap]>roachiug the coasts in winter, but not taken in these trips 

 of the Fish Commission steamer. 



