22 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



PLEURONECTID.E. 



20. Hppoglossina stomata sp. nov. 



Two specimens of this species were obtained in deep 

 water off San Diego, November 7, 1889. Both females, 

 one with ripe eggs. 



Related to //. macrops Steind., w^ith much larger mouth, 

 etc. 



Head 3, or slightly less than 3, in the length; depth 

 2>^-2|; D, 67-70; A. 52-54; lat. 1. 80. Sinistral. 



Elongate elliptical, the profile depressed over the eye. 

 Eye* large, 5 in head; lower orbit slightly in advance of 

 upper; interorbital a narrow ridge. 



Mouth large, maxillary extending to posterior margin 

 of eye, as long as or longer than the pectoral, 2 in head; 

 lower jaw about 1%^ in the head. Teeth small, uniserial. 

 Anterior nares of both sides with long dermal flaps. 



Scales of the left side all ctenoid, those of the right side 

 cycloid on the anterior one-half or two-thirds of the body. 

 Middle third of the interorbital naked, the anterior and 

 posterior thirds scaled. 



Dorsal beginning over middle of eye, the anterior rays 

 with but one or two scales, the rest scaled to near the tip, 

 all but the last 8 rays simple. Anal similar to the dorsal, with 

 a strong procumbent spine. Highest dorsal and anal rays 

 about 3)^ in the head. Pectoral of the colored side about 

 2 in the head, that of the blind side shorter. Caudal 

 double-truncate, 5-5/^ in the length. 



Brown, strongly tinged in life with robin's-egg blue; 

 numerous spots of light-blue and light and dark brown. 

 Five pairs of large dark-brown ocelli along the dorsal and 

 ventral parts of the eyed side, the alternate ones larger 



*Eye not orbit. 



