392 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Lophopsetta maculata Verrill, Am. Nat., 1, 1871, p. 399. 
Bothus maculatus Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 
135. 
Pleuronectes maculatus Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, 
P. 363. 
Genus Evrropus Jordan and Gilbert. 
The Little Flounders. 
Etropus microstomus (Gill). 
Head's, ‘im total ;“depth 224% in total;'D, 81 ; A 58 Cae. 
5, 3; P. 10; V. 6; scales about 42 in lateral line, 10 above and 
14 below; snout scarcely 7 in head; eye about 334; upper jaw 
4; mandible 2%; fortieth dorsal ray 10 in total length; caudal 
6; colored pectoral 624; pale pectoral 10; colored ventral 14; 
pale ventral less than 12; caudal peduncle about 11. Head rather 
abbreviated, scarcely sinnous above eyes, blunt at snout. Rostral 
area rhombic, not higher than long. Eyes even. Mouth rather 
small. Teeth very small, close together, larger in front. Scales 
large, angular behind, covered with smaller ones, especially near 
point of junction of contiguous ones, where alone they are de- 
veloped on blind side. Scales of eyed side mostly minutely 
ciliated behind, unarmed, however, near lateral line, and scales 
of last quadrate and mostly covered. Scales of blind side less 
angular behind and unarmed. Dorsal commences above front 
rim of orbit, and highest and convergent near fortieth ray. Anal 
highest at about twenty-fifth ray, and as high, or even higher 
than dorsal. Caudal rounded behind. Pectorals unequally de- 
veloped, that of dark side prolonged, while that of white side 
only equals a tenth of same, rays all simple. Ventrals also un- 
equally developed, right on abdominal ridge at its origin, rather 
in advance of opercular margin and stretched backwards, extend- 
ing to second anal ray. Ventral on white side more advanced, 
wider, rays longer, and extending backward near third anal ray. 
Color uniform reddish-brown. Little more than 3 inches. Bees- 
ley’s Point. ( Gill.) 
