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12. Limanda Beanii, new species. 
Two specimens, No. 26102, were obtained—one from station 875, at a 
depth of 126 fathoms; one from station 876, 120 fathoms—which are pro- 
visionally referred to the genus Limanda, Gottsche, as understood by 
American ichthyologists. The species surely belongs to Pleuronectes, as 
limited by Giinther, the weight of whose opinion regarding the difticul- 
ties of making generic divisions in this group is fully appreciated. The 
extreme brevity of the snout and the elongate-elliptical form of the body 
render its shape very unlike that of Limanda ferruginea of our own coast 
and Limanda platessoides of the Eastern Atlantic. In its general appear- 
ance, except that the ventrals are not both lateral, it resembles consid- 
erably the species mentioned above. 
DEsScRIpTion.—The body is elliptical in form, with angular outlines. 
Its height is three-eighths (38) of its total length, and slightly more than 
twice the length of the head, and about three times the greatest height 
ot the anal fin. Its height at the ventrals (25) is one-fourth of its length 
and less than distance from snout to origin of anal. Its least height, at 
base of tail (12), is half its height at ventrals. It is thin, its greatest 
width (7) not excceding the diameter of the orbit. 
The seales are subcircular, small, strongly pectinate on the colored 
side, eycloid on the blind side, where they are also larger, there being 
about fifty (as nearly as can be counted in the specimens before me) in 
the lateral line, behind the curve, while on the colored side there are 
probably sixty. The lateral line on the colored side makes a very ab- 
rupt, conspicuous, angular, high curve over the pectoral fin. The chord 
of this are is nearly as long as the head of the fish, its height half as 
great. The scales in the lateral line are highly specialized, particularly 
along the curve, which appears to contain about twenty-seven of them, 
while posterior to this, in the straight portion, there are about sixty. 
The specialized scales of the lateral line extend far out upon the caudal 
fin. On the blind side the lateral line is little conspicuous, the scales 
very slightly specialized, and it becomes obsolete in the region where, 
upon the colored side, the curve is located. The scales extend far out 
upon the caudal fin, but are not present upon the other fins. 
The head is very short, its length (18) contained about five times and 
one-half in the total. The snout is very short (2), one-fiftieth of the 
total, and the mouth is small, its cleft subvertical, and the maxillary 
extending very slightly behind the anterior margin of the orbit. The 
teeth are inconspicuous, apparently in two rows, stronger and more 
numerous on the blind side, barely discernable in upper jaw, absent 
elsewhere in the mouth. 
The eyes are large, prominent; their diameters (7) greater than the 
length of the maxillary (6) and equal to that of the mandible (6). They 
are very closely set, the interorbital space marked by a knife-like edge 
ot bone. The upper eye, in its outline trenching upon the dorsal outline 
of the head, is almost directly above its mate. Together they occupy 
