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on the snout, its anterior rays exserted; no preanal spine; 

 ventral of left side free from the anal, inserted nearly on the 

 ridge of the abdomen, its base broad, the rays well separated; 

 pectoral and ventral fins moderate. One species. Very close 

 to the European genus B o t h u s Kafinesque, from which it 

 differs in the more numerous gill rakers, pellucid body and pro- 

 duced dorsal rays. The European turbot, P s e 1 1 a Swainson, 

 is also closely related, but the typical species, P s e 1 1 a 

 maxima, is a large, robust fish, scalelesiS and beset with bony 



tubercles. 



363 Lophopsetta maculata (Mitchill) 



WindoiD Pane 



Pleuronectes maculattis Mitchill, Rep. Fish. N. Y. 9, 1814, New York; 



De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 301, pi. 47, fig. 151, 1842; Storee, Hist. 



Fish. Mass. 204, pi. XXXI, fig. 4, 1867. 

 Pleuronectes aquosus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 389, pi. II, 



fig. 3, 1815, New York. 

 Rhomhus aquosus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. IV, 411, 1862. 

 Botlius maculatiis Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 815, 1883; 



Bean, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 372, 1897; H. M. Smith, Bull. U. 



S. F. C. 1897, 108, 1898; Bean, 52d Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 110, 



1900. 

 Lophopsetta maculata Gill, Ptoc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 216, 1862: Goode & 



Bean, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 6, 1879; Bean, 19th Rep. Comm. Fish. 



N. Y. 247, 1890; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 



2660, 1898; IV, pi. C'COLXXXII, fig. 988, 1900. 



The length of the body is one and three fifths times the depth 

 of the body and three and three fourths times the length of the 

 head. Body broadly rhomboid, very strongly compressed; inter- 

 orbital area flattish; eye rather large, about equal to snout; teeth 

 .in both jaws in one iseries laterally, in a very narrow band in 

 front; maxillary nearly half length of head; gill rakers rather 

 long and slender, numerous, about 25 below the angle of the 

 arch; scales well developed, cycloid, loosely imbricated; those of 

 the blind side a little smaller; no bony tubercles; vertical fins 

 scaly; anterior rays of dorsal elevated, branched, with free tips. 

 D. 65; A. 52; Lat. 1. 85. 



Light olive brown, almost translucent, everywhere marbled 

 with paler, and with many roundish, irregular, blackish blotches; 

 fins spotted. Length 18 inches. Atlantic coast of the United 

 States, very common northward. Size rather small. 



