140 FISH HARVESTING. 
eye, and follows the dorsal profile to the twenty- 
sixth dorsal ray, where it terminates; dorsal and 
anal rays quite smooth—the dorsal commences 
above the anterior third of the orbit, and ter- 
minates at a distance from the caudal nearly equal 
to the depth of the free portion of the tail; anal 
spine prominent—the longest dorsal rays are 
somewhat behind the middle of the fin, rather 
shorter than the pectoral, and half as long as the 
head; uniform brownish; length, eight inches. 
I obtained this new species of flounder in Mack- 
enzie’s Arm, a tidal inlet continuous with Victoria 
Harbour. 
Pleuronichthys guttulatus (Gerard, in Proc. 
Acad., Nat. Sc. Philadel., 1856, p. 137, and U. 8. 
Pacif. R. R. Expd., ‘Fishes,’ p. 152).—Sp. Che 
The height of the body is somewhat more than 
one-half of the total length (with the caudal), the 
length of the head one-fourth, and that of the 
caudal one-fifth. The interorbital space is ex- 
ceedingly narrow, and raised ridgelike ; snout 
very blunt and short; mouth small, with the jaws 
even. The dorsal commences above the anterior 
part of the orbit, and terminates at a short dis- 
tance from the caudal; its longest rays are on 
and behind the middle of the fin. Scales, very 
small, cycloid. The lateral line is slightly arched 
