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ANALYSIS OF SPECIES OF PAROPHRYS, 
a. Body elongate-elliptical; snout very prominent, forming an abrupt angle with the 
descending profile; eyes large, 4} in head, separated by a very narrow, high ridge» 
the upper eye encroaching on the dorsal outline; teeth small, trenchant, widened 
at tip; fin-rays scaleless; scales cycloid, those on cheeks usually ciliated, espe- 
cially in northern specimens; head 34; depth 24; D. 74 to 86; A. 54 to 68; lat. 
1. 105; vertebrie 11 + 33-=44; uniform light olive-brown; the young sometimes 
spotted wath blackish:.-...2 JogSt. 824. Wisse ee Be VETULYS, 71. 
71. PAROPHRYS VETULUS. 
Parophrys vetulus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1854, p. 140 (California). Giin- 
ther, Cat. Fish., iv, 455 (copied). Lockington, Rep. Com. Fish. Cal., 1878-9, p. 
45. Lockington, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1879, p. 100 (San Francisco). Jordan 
and Gilbert, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1880, p. 453 (Puget Sound, San Francisco, 
Monterey Bay, Santa Barbara). Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 
68 (Santa Barbara, Monterey, Puget Sound). Jordan, Nat. Hist. Aquat. 
Anim., 1884, 185 (Santa Barbara to Alaska). 
Pleuronectes veltulus Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis Fish. N. A., 1882, 831. 
Pleuronectes digrammus Giinther, Cat. Fish., iv, 445, 1862 (Victoria). 
Parophrys hubbardi Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 281 (San Francisco). 
Habitat.—Pacifie coast of North America, Alaska to Santa Barbara. 
This small flounder lives in waters of moderate depth. It is, next to 
Platichthys stellatus, probably the most abundant of the flounders of 
the California coast. 
Genus XXIX.—INOPSETTA. 
Inopsetta Jordan & Goss, Cat. Fish. N. A., 1835, 136 (ischyrus). 
Type: Parophrys ischyrus Jordan & Gilbert. 
This genus contains a single species, closely allied to Platichthys stel- 
latus, but separated from it by the curious character common to many of 
our Pacific coast flounders, of having an accessory branch to the lateral 
line. In technical characters there is not very much to separate Inop- 
setta from Parophrys, though the resemblance between J. ischyra and P. 
vetulus is not very close. 
ANALYSIS OF SPECIES OF INOPSETTA. 
a.. Body oblong, robust; snout projecting, forming an angle with the profile; teeth 
narrow incisors; interorbital space rather broad, scaly; eyes large; lower 
pharyngeals each with two rows of coarse, blunt teeth; scales thick, firm, ad- 
herent, loosely imbricated, all ctenoid on both sides of body, those on head 
roughest; accessory lateral line short. Head 3}; depth 2. D. 70 to 76; A. 52 to 
57; lat.1.85. Light olive-brown, with dusky blotches, blind side more or less 
spotted or tinged ‘With TUsty .occes sa desg ds coun waeicewsineseneeeeee IscHYRA, 72. 
72. INOPSETTA ISCHYRA. 
Parophrys ischyrus Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 276 and 453 
(Puget Sound), Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 67 (Seattle). 
Jordan, Aquat. Anim., 1884, 185 (Seattle). 
Pleuronectes ischyrus Jordan and Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1882, 831. 
Lsopsetta ischyra Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. A., 1885, 136. 
