46() REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
152. Limanda aspera (Pallas). 
An excellent food-fish, 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 3} to 53 
fathoms. 
153. Limanda proboscidea sp.nov. (Plate 33.) 
Bearing some resemblance to L. ferruginea (Storer) but having fewer rays in dorsal 
and anal, larger scales and longer snout. Profile 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}to2sin 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, 4in 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 upper eye 
54 to 6 in head, 1}insnout. Vertical from front of upper eye falling midway between 
frontof orbit and front of pupil of lower eye. Interorbital space avery 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. 
Seales 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. Ventrals reaching beyond front of anal, 3} in 
head. The usual small antrose 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 
FSerruginea). Vertical fins grayish with an occasional dark-brown ray. 
Several specimens from stations 3239, 3240, and 3248 in Bristol Bay; depths 114 to 
21 fathoms; one young specimen from Herendeen Bay. 
154. Platichthys stellatus (Pallas). Great California Flounder. 
Mouth 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 Chernoffski Harbor and Herendeen Bay, and at stations 
3240, 3244, 3251, and 3252 in Bristol Bay; depths 4} to 294 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 10} fathoms. 
157. Glyptocephalus zachirus Lockington. 
Bering Sea and North Pacific generally; stations 3227, 3259, 3322, 3323, 3324, Bee 
3334, 3349, and 3351; depths 35 to 350 fathoms. 
158. Microstomus pacificus (Lockington). Slippery Sole. 
Stations 3216 (south of Alaska Peninsula, 61 fathoms), 3333 (north of Unalaska, 
19 fathoms), 3343, 3347, 3348, and 3349 (coasts of Washington, Oregon, and northern 
California; depths, 239 to 516 fathoms). This species is dredged in abundance in the 
vicinity of San Francisco, at depths of 15 to 50 fathoms. 
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