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upper eye 5^ to 6 in head, !- in snout ; vertical from front of upper eye, 

 falling midway between front of orbit and front of pupil of lower eye; 

 interorbital space a very 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 ; scales 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 a single series of ctenoid 

 scales; dorsal fin beginning slightly behind front of upper eye, the first 3 

 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 ; these fins about equal, their longest rays equal 

 to the snout and eye; caudal f head; pectorals short, \ in Lead; ventrals 

 reaching beyond front of aual, 3 in head; the usual small antrorse spine 

 in front of anal fin. 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 inferruginea) ; vertical fins grayish, 

 with an occasional dark-brown ray. Specimens described 7i inches long. 

 Bering Sea ; several specimens from Albatross Stations 3239 and 3240, in 

 Bristol Bay, in 11^ to 14^ fathoms; 1 young individual from Herendeen 

 Bay. (Gilbert.) (proboscideus, having a long snout or proboscis.) 

 Limanda proboscidea, GILBEBT, Report U.S. Fish Comm. 1893 (1896), 460, pi. 33, Bristol 

 Bay and Herendeen Bay. (Coll. Albatross.) 



3016. LIMANDA BEAMI, Goode. 



Head 5; depth 2f . D. 64 ; A. 63 ; scales 88. Body elliptical, with angu- 

 lar outlines, strongly compressed; head very short; snout abbreviated; 

 mouth small, sub vertical ; teeth small, apparently in two rows, chiefly on 

 the blind side of lower jaw; eyes large, as long as mandible; interorbital 

 space very narrow. Dorsal fin beginning about pupil, its rays long, wide 

 apart, exserted; right ventral near the median line; caudal broad, fan- 

 shaped. Lateral line with an abrupt curve, the length of which is twice 

 its height and about equal to length of head, its scales highly specialized; 

 lateral line on colored side less developed ; scales small, strongly ctenoid 

 on the right side; larger and cycloid on the blind side. Grayish, mottled 

 with darker; a conspicuous black blotch on the outer rays of caudal on 

 each side. (Goode.) Deep water off the coasts of New England; not 

 common. (Named for Dr. Tarleton Hoffman Bean.) 



Limanda beanii, GOODE, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1880 (Feb. 16, 1881), 473, southern coast 

 New England, Fish Hawk Stations, 875, 876 ; GOODE <fc BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 

 428, pi. 102, figs. 355a and 355h, 1896. 



Pleuronectes beani, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 835, 1883; JORDAN & Goss, Review 

 Flounders and Soles, 288, 1889. 



1036. PSEUDOPLEURONECTES, Bleeker. 

 (WINTER FLOUNDERS.) 



Pseudopleuronectes, BLEEKER, Comptes Rendus Acad. Amst., Pleuron., 7, 1862 (planus). 



Body oblong, with firm flesh; the scales firm, regularly imbricated, 

 strongly ctenoid on eyed side in both sexes; fin rays scaly; mouth small; 



