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JUKI S.Mitcinber, and has also bc-ii taken in Great South bay. 

 Tlu- individnals colU-cted in (Ireat Egg Harbor bay, varied from 

 2 inches to U inches in k'ngth. One of these was dextral and 

 all the rest sinistral as usual. 



Genus hjianda Gottsche 



Teeth chietl.v uniserial; lateral line with a distinct arch in 



front and without accessory dorsal brauch; scales imbricated, 



rough ctenoid; vertebrae about 40, This genus is closely allied 



to P s e u d o J) 1 e u r o u e c t e s , from which it ditfers only in 



the presence of an arch on the anterior part of the lateral line. 



365 Limanda ferruginea (Storer) 



Sand Uah 



Platessu ferruginea Storer, Rep. Fish. Mass. 141, pi. 2, 1839; Hist. Fish. 

 Mass. 198. pi. XXX, fig. 4, 1867; De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 297. pi. 



48, fig. 155, 1842. 



Phitessa rostrata H. R. Storer, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. V, I, 268. pi. YIH, 

 fig. 2, 1857. 



I'leitionccii'S fcrrujjineus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. IV, 447, 1862; Jor- 

 dan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 834, 1883. 



Liimnda ferruginea Goode & Bean. Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 6, 1879; Oceanic 

 Ichth. 427, 1896; Goode. Fish & Fish. Ind. U. S. I, pi. 49. 18.84; H. M. 

 SMrrii, Bull. V. S. F. C. 1897, 108, 1898; Jordan & Evermann. Bull. 

 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. III. 2644, 1898; IV. pi. CCCLXXVII, fig. 929, 19W. 



The length of the body is two aud one fifth times its depth and 

 four times the length of the head. Body ovate-elliptic, strongly 

 com})ressed; teeth small, conic, close set, in a single series on 

 each side iii each jaw; snout projecting, forming a strong angle 

 abbve upt)er eye with the descending i>rofile; gill rakers of mod- 

 erate leugth, very weak, not toothed; eye moderate, four and one 

 half in head, the lower slightly in advance of the upper, sepa- 

 rated by a high, very narrow ridge, which is scaled posteriorly 

 and is continned backwaid as an inconspicuous but rough ridge 

 iti I lie l)et;iiining of I lie lateral line; scales imbricate, nearly uni- 

 foiiii, ilmse (III liglil side rongh ctenoid, those on left side nearly 

 or iiniie sniooiji. scales on body rongher than on cheeks; caudal 

 |iediiii(le shnii. liiiihcr (han long; dorsal inserted over middle of 

 eye, its iiiidiili- i;iy highcf^t; ](Mtoial less than two fifths length 

 of iiead; caii(l;il I'm rounded; anal s\)'me present; lateral line 

 .simple, with a ladiei- low arch in front, the depth of which is 



