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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



vol. 48. 



mouth nearly symmetrical, the maxillary of eyed side not reaching 

 to below pupil, its greatest width 0.02, its length 0.07; length of 

 maxillary of blind side, 0.075; teeth bluntly conic on sides of jaws, 

 in a subequal series; gill-rakers, 7 + 10. 



Body nearly oval, the ventral surface slightly more curved than 

 the dorsal, strongly compressed, the width only 0.16 of depth; tip 

 of mandible to anus, 0.315; anus nearly on midline. 



Scales of both sides ctenoid, not very rough, as in L. sakhalinensis, 

 but with finer and more numerous spines than in L. aspera; inter- 

 orbital, anterior margin of orbits, snout, and jaws naked, excepting 

 a few scales near tip of maxillary; suborbital branch of lateral line 

 with 15 pores. Arch in lateral line long and low, regularly semi- 

 elliptical in form, its length 3.2 in straight part, its height 12. 



Fins short; ventrals symmetrical, reaching anal spine; height of 

 dorsal, 0.125; of anal, 0.12; length of pectoral, eyed side, 0.136; 

 blind side, 0.116; ventrals, 0.085. 



Color uniform brown on body and fins. 



Kori-garei is the Japanese name for L. scJirenki. 



Paratype. — No. 22532, Stanford University Museum, from Alba- 

 tross station 5007, depth 42 fathoms. 



Other specimens from station 5012, 42-43 fathoms; 5011, 42 

 fathoms; all in Aniwa Bay, Sakhalin Island. 



Albatross station 



Dorsal rays 



Anal rays 



Pores 



Gill-rakers 



Length to base of caudal, mm 



Length, head 



Depth, body 



Diameter, upper eye 



Snout from upper orbit 



Maxillary, eyed side 



Pectoral, eyed side 



Ventral, eyed side 



Height, dorsal 



Height, anal 



5007 



5011 



5012 



77 



72 



73 



63 



55 



55 



85 



84 



86 



6+10 



6+10 



6+10 



180 



172 



193 



23 



23.7 



23 



42 



44.7 



41.5 



6 



6 



5 



4 



4 



4.5 



7 



7 



6.5 



12 



13 



11.5 



8.5 



9 



8 



12 



11.7 



11.7 



12 



11.7 



11.7 



LIMANDA IRIDORUM Jordan and Starks. 



Limanda iridorum Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mub., vol. 31, 1906, 

 p. 206, fig. 14. Mororan. 



Two large specimens from Korsakov, Aniwa Bay, Sakhalin 

 Island, collected by the Albatross, September 25, 1906. 



Three small specimens, collected at Mororan, Japan, July 6, 1906, 

 by the Albatross. 



Length. 



Dorsal 

 rays. 



Anal 

 rays. 



Pores. 



Gill-rakers. 



mm. 



287 



277 



96 



93 



59 

 61 

 65 



58 



46 

 45 

 47 

 42 



73 

 73 

 77 

 69 



5+11 

 5+11 

 5+12 

 5+11 



