460 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



152. Limanda aspera (Pallas). 



An excelleut food-lisli, taken in abundance at Herendeen Bay and at stations 

 3230, 3233, 3234, 3235, 3238, 3239, 3240, 3241, 3242, 3243, 3244, 3248, 3251, 3252, 3266, 3267, 

 3269, 3282, 3283, 3286, 3298, 3299, 3301, and 3303 in Bristol Bay ; depths 3i to 53 

 fathoms. 



153. Limanda proboscidea sp. nov. (Plate 33.) 



Bearing some resemblance to L. fcrruginea {^tov('v)h\\t having fewer rays in dorsal 

 and anal, larger scales and longer snout. Prolile sharply angulated above front of 

 upper eye, the snout convexly protruding. Form varying from very slender to 

 broadly elliptical, the two outlines equally curved. Depth 2^ to2i^ in length. Head 

 large, 3 to 3^ in length, in a specimen 7 inches long. Caudal peduncle short, widen- 

 ing backward, its least depth twice its length. Mouth oblique, the maxillary 

 reaching beyond front of lower eye, 4 in head. Teeth narrow, little compressed, in 

 a single series on both sides of the jaw, extending farther back on the blind side. 

 Eyes on right side. Lower eye well in advance of upper, the diameter of Tipper eye 

 5^ to 6 in head, 1^ in snout. Vertical from front of upper eye falling midway between 

 front of orbit and front of pupil of lower eye. Interorbital space a very narrow sharp 

 ridge, naked in females, with a single series of ctenoid scales in males. Gill-rakers 

 short, about equal to diameter of pupil, 13 or 14 in number, 9 or 10 on lower limb. 



Scales loosely imbricated, ctenoid in males on colored side, smooth in females. 

 Blind side of both sexes smooth. Head scaled on eyed side in males ; the opercle, 

 subopercle, interopercle, and preopercle mostly naked in females. Head on blind 

 side naked. Rays of vertical fins with single series of ctenoid scales. Dorsal fin 

 beginning slightly behind front of upper eye, the first three rays usually higher 

 and with membranes more deeply incised than in those which follow. Highest 

 portions of both dorsal and anal fins behind the middle of the body. The fins 

 about equal, their longest rays equal to the snout and eye. Caudal two-thirds head. 

 Pectorals short, one-third head. Ventral s reaching beyond front of anal, 3J^ in 

 head. The usual small autrose spine in front of anal fin. 



D. 63-67; A. 47-49; Lateral line 86-95. Length 7^ inches. 



Color : Light grayish or brownish, thickly covered with small whitish spots. Entire 

 left side with margins of dorsal, caudal and anal fins bright lemon-yellow (as in 

 ferruginea). Vertical fins grayish with an occasional dark-brown ray. 



Several specimens from stations 3239, 3240, and 3248 in Bristol Bay; depths 11^ to 

 21 fathoms ; one young specimen from Herendeen Bay. 



154. Platichthys stellatus (Pallas). Crveat California Flounder. 



Month of the Nushagak River, and stations 3229, 3235, 3239, 3240, and 3269, Bristol 

 Bay ; depths 8 to 16 fathoms. 



155. Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus Pallas. 



Numerously represented at Chernoifski Harbor and Herendeen Bay, and at stations 

 3240, 3244, 3251, and 3252 in Bristol Bay; depths 4^ to 29^ fathoms. 



156. Pleuronectes glacialis Pallas. 



Found abundant in the mouths of the Naknek and Nushagak rivers, and at sta- 

 tion 3232 in Bristol Bay ; depth lOi fathoms. 



157. Glyptocephalus zachirus Lockington. 



Bering Sea and North Pacific generally ; stations 3227, 3259, 3322, 3.323, 3324, 3331, 

 3334, 3.349, and 3.351 ; depths 35 to 350 fathoms. 



158. Microstomus pacificus (Lockington). Slippery Sole. 



Stations 3216 (south of Alaska Peninsula, 61 fathoms), 33.33 (north of Unalaska, 

 19 fathoms), 3.343, 3347, 3348, .and 3349 (coasts of W.ashington, Oregon, and northern 

 California; depths, 2.39 to 516 fathoms). This species is dredged in abundance in the 

 vicinity of San Francisco, at depths of 15 to 50 fathoms. 



