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Pleuronectes variegatus Schlegel, from Japan, may belong to Lepidop- 
setta. 
The same name, Lepidopsetta, has been lately given by Dr. Giinther 
to a very different genus of flounders. For the group so-called the 
name Mancopsetta of Gill should be used. 
ANALYSIS OF SPECIES OF LEPIDOPSETTA, 
a. Body broadly ovate, thickish; teeth bluntish, subconical: lower pharyngeals with 
two rows of blunt teeth. Snout projecting. forming an angle; eyes large, separ- 
ated by a prominent scaly ridge. Scalessmall, mostly ctenoid, those on the head 
very rough, especially in northern specimens (var. wnbrosa); scales of the blind 
side smooth; accessory lateral line half length of head. Anal spine present. 
Head 32; depth 24. D. 80; A. 60; lat. 1.&5. Vertebrae,11+29=40. Yellowish 
brown, with numerous round pale blotches ....-.-..-...------.-- BILINEATA, 74, 
74, LEPIDOPSETTA BILINEATA 
[Plate XI.] 
Platessa bilineata Ayres, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Cal., 1855, p. 40 (San Francisco), 
Pleuronectes bilineatus Giinther, Cat. Fish., 444, 1862 (copied). Jordan & Gilbert, 
Syn. Fish. N. A., 1882, 833. 
Lepidopsetia bilineata Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, 195, Lockington, Proc. 
U.S. Nat. Mus., 1879, p. 103(San Francisco). Lockington, Rep. Com. Fish- 
eries California, 1878-79, p. 46 (I‘arallone Islands). Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, p. 453 (Puget Sound, San Francisco, Monterey Bay). 
Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 68 (Monterey, Puget Sound). 
Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, p. 241 (Monterey Bay, San Francisco, Puget 
Sound). Bean, Cat. Col. Fish. U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 19, 1883 (Port Chatham, 
Cook’s Inlet). Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus, 1883, p. 353 (Carter Bay, 
British Columbia). Jordan, Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim., 184, pl. 50 (Monterey 
to Alaska). ’ 
Platichthys wmbrosus Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, 136. (Puget Sound.) 
Pleuronectes umbrosus Giinther, iv, 1862, 454. (Esquimault Harbor. ) 
Pleuronectes perarcuatus Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1873. (Alaska. ) 
Habitat.—Pacific coast of North America, Alaska to Monterey. 
This species is one of the commonest of the flounders of the Pacific 
coast, its abundance apparently increasing towards the northward. It 
reaches a weight of five or six pounds and is an inhabitant of shallow 
waters. Specimens from Puget Sound and northward are rougher than 
Southern specimens and ‘constitute a slight geographical variety, for 
which the name of Lepidopsetta bilineata umbrosa may be used. Th's 
is the same as the perarcuatus of Cope. | 
Genus XXXII.—LIMANDA. 
Limanda Gottsche, Wiegmann’s Archiv, 1835, 100 (limanda). 
Myzopsetta Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, 217 (ferruginea.) 
TyPE: Pleuronectes limanda Linneeus. 
This genus is closely allied to Pseudopleuronectes, from which it differs 
only in the presence of an arch on the anterior part of the lateral line, 
Four species of Limanda are now recognized, 
