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blind side; anal rays 60 to 70, the fin arising slightly in advance of pectorals; caudal bitrun- 

 cate; pectoral of eyed side with upper rays greatly elongated (in male); ventral of blind 

 side slightly in advance of other, which is inserted on ridge of abdomen. Color: nearly uniform 

 brown, with more or less obscure darker mottlings; blind side dusky; fins mottled, the pec- 

 toral of left side barred, (papillosum, full of papillae.) 





Fig. 179. Syacium papillosum. 



This species has been recorded from various places on the coast from Charles- 

 ton to Rio Janeiro, but has not heretofore been reported from North Carolina. 

 In the summer of 1902, the Fish-Hawk collected 1 specimen 3.5 inches long at 

 Beaufort. The maximum length is a foot, but the average is much less. 



Genus LOPHOPSETTA Gill. Window-pane Flounders; Sand Flounders. 



Body broad, sinistral, much compressed, translucent, covered with small 

 cycloid scales; mouth large; maxillary extending to pupil; gill-rakers long and 

 numerous; lateral line with a marked arch anteriorly; dorsal fin beginning in 

 front of eye, the anterior rays produced and branched; ventral fin of left side 

 inserted on ridge of abdomen by a broad base. One species. (Lophopsetta, 

 tufted turbot.) 



338. LOPHOPSETTA MAOULATA (Mitchill). 

 "Flounder"; Sand Flounder; Spotted Sand Flounder; "Window-pane Flounder. 



Pleuronectes maculalus Mitchill, Report Fishes of New York, 9, 1814; New York. 



LopJiopsetta macidata, Yarrow, 1877, 205; Beaufort. Jordan & Gilbert, 1879, 371; Beaufort. Jordan it 



Evermann, 1898, 2660, pi. ccclxxxii, fig. 938. Linton, 1905, 414; Beaufort. 

 Bolhits maculalus, Jordan, 1886, 29; Beaufort. Jenkins, 1887, 92; Beaufort. 



Diagnosis. — Form rhomboidal, compressed, the greatest depth .66 length; head .28 

 length; mouth large, a bony tubercle on anterior end of maxillary of upper side, lower jaw with 

 a knob at chin, teeth in each jaw in a single series laterally and in a band in front; eye .25 

 length of head; gill-rakers about .33; body and head scaly; maxillary, mandible, and snout 

 naked; scales in lateral series about 85; dorsal rays 65, those of anterior third of fin branched 

 at tips and produced, those at beginning of posterior tliird longest; anal rays 52; caudal fin 

 rather slender, rounded. Color- light brown above, mottled with paler and with numerous 

 small black spots; dorsal, caudal, and anal fins with dark brown spots, (maculata, spotted.) 



