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closed; maxillary of eyed side extending to below anterior margin 

 of pupil; its greatest width, 0.02; its length, 0.075; length of maxil- 

 lary of blind side, 0.085; teeth bluntly conic, in a rather uneven 

 series on both sides of jaws, those on the eyed side of upper jaw 

 strong but short; gill-rakers, 6 + 9, those on the upper limb and 

 the anterior 4 of the lower limb considerably reduced in size, as in 

 L. aspera. 



Body ovate, rather angular at anterior end, more compressed than 

 usual, greatest width 0.16 of greatest depth ; depth of caudal pedun- 

 cle, 0.115; tip of mandible to anus, 0.25; anus partly on blind side. 



Only a few scattered scales ctenoid, those with only a single 

 median spine, the ctenoid scales mostly on eyed side; a few scales 

 in a rough area in front of ventrals, on each side, with 2 spines; 

 scales on upper pectoral ray with 1 spine; interorbital and anterior 

 margins of orbits with a single row of cycloid scales; head with 

 naked areas as in preceding species; arch of lateral line long and 

 regularly semioval in form, its length 3 in straight part, its 

 height 10. 



Fins as in related forms, except that the highest dorsal rays are 

 nearer the middle of the body; pectoral long; anal spine present; 

 ventrals symmetrical, their tips reaching origin of anal. Height of 

 dorsal, 0.15; of anal, 0.15; length of caudal, 0.20; of pectoral, eyed 

 side, 0.18, blind side, 0.12; of ventrals, 0.105, both ventrals alike. 



Color uniform dark brown on body and fins. 



Only the type known. 



LIMANDA KORIGAREI, new species. 

 Plate 27, fig. 8. 



This species is related to others of the L. aspera group, but differs 

 from them in the high, naked interorbital and anterior margins of 

 orbits, the ridge oblique, the anterior end the higher; and in the 

 longer, more elliptical arch in the lateral line. The suborbital branch 

 of the lateral line has 14 or 15 pores, 11 to 13 in L. sakhalinensis, 

 18 to 20 in L. aspera. 



Type-specimen. — Cat. No. 75669, U.S.N.M. A male 234 mm. long 

 to base of caudal, from Albatross station 5008, Aniwa Bay, Sakhalin 

 Island, depth 40 fathoms. 



Length of head, 0.25 of total length without caudal; depth, 0.47; 

 dorsal 73 ; anal, 59 ; pores in the lateral fine, 90. 



Head sharp and compressed, as in L. sakhalinensis; orbits some- 

 what elliptical, the upper slightly posterior; diameter of upper eye, 

 0.055; eyes separated by a high, narrow, naked interorbital, the 

 entire width of which is 0.010; the ridge sharp, extending from a 

 prominent anterior margin of lower orbit to posterior margin of 

 upper orbit; edges of posterior nostril little expanded; snout in- 

 dented above, its length from upper orbit 0.05; jaws straight, the 



