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This species is rather common along the coast of Northern Massachu- 
setts and northward to Labrador. Specimens are frequently found in 
the markets, mixed with those of Pseudopleuronectes americanus. The 
numerous specimens in our possession were found in the markets of 
Indianapolis, having been sent thither from Boston. 
The remarkable sexual differences in the species have been fully 
discussed by Dr. Bean (Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., 1878, 345), the form for- 
merly called Huchalarodus putnami being the male, and that called 
Pleuronectes glaber being the female of the same species. These con- 
clusions of Dr. Bean are fully corroborated by our series of specimens 
in which both sexes are fully represented. 
As the name Platessa glabra is preoccupied by Rathke (1837), we must 
adopt the specific name putnami for this species if it be regarded as dis- 
tinct from Liopsetta glacialis. Taking our own notes and the published 
plate of the latter species asa guide, we can see no difference whatever 
by which Liopsetta putnami may be separated from it. It is possible, 
however, that differences would appear on actual comparison of speci- 
mens. In view of the wide distance between the habitats of the two 
species, we here leave them separate for the present. Although Liop. 
setta putnami is abundant where found, its ascertained range is some- 
what limited. The specimens in the U.S. National Museum represent 
localities from Salem, Mass., to Belfast, Me. In the Museum of Com- 
parative Zoology the localities represented are Providence, Boston, 
Salem, Grand Manan, and Labrador. 
86. LIOPSETTA GLACIALIS. 
[Plate XVII. ] 
Pleuronectes glacialis Pallas, ‘‘Itin., iii, App., 706” (mouth of river Obi). Bloch and 
Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p.150 (copied). Pallas, Zoogr. Ross.-Asiat., iii, 
424, 1811 (mouth river Obi). Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer., Fish., 258, 1836 
(copied). DeKay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, p. 302, 1842 (copied). Storer, Syn. 
Fish. N. A., 1846, p. 479 (copied). Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, p.241 
(Kotzebue Sound, Northern Alaska). Jordan and Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N.A., 
1882, 837 (from specimens taken by Dr. Bean). Bean, Cat. Col. Fish U.S. Nat. 
Mus.,, 1883, p. 20 (Kotzebue Sound, Alaska). Bean, Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim., 
1884, 184, pl. 47 (Saint Michael’s). : 
Pleuronectes cicatricosus Pallas, Zoogr. Ross.-Asiat., iii, 424, 1811 (male) (sea between 
Kamtschatka and Alaska). 
Pleuronectes franklinit Giinther, Cat. Fish., iv, 442, 1862 (Arctic seas of America) 
(female). Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, p. 241. 
Habitat.—Arctic Ocean south to Saint Michael’s. 
This small flounder is known to us only from the specimens taken by 
Dr. Bean. It is said to be abundant in the Arctic Ocean, and as far 
south as Saint Michael’s, “ although small, its great abundance and fine 
flavor make it important as an article of food.” 
