no. 2082. FLOUNDERS AND SOLES FROM JAPAN— HUBBS. 



487 



Two specimens from the market at Korsakov, Aniwa Bay, Saghalin 

 Island. 



Dorsal, 60; anal, 44; pores, 79; gill-rakers, 4-7, 4-7; length, 

 200 mm. 



Dorsal, 60; anal, 43; pores, 77; gill-rakers, 3-8, 4-7; length, 

 222 mm. 



LIOPSETTA GLACIALIS Pallas. 



Liopsetta glacialis Pallas, Itin., vol. 3, App., p. 706. 



Nine specimens from Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, collected by the 

 Albatross, June 18-19, 1906. 



LIOPSETTA PINNIFASCIATA (Kner). 



Pleuronectes pinnifasciatus Kner, in Steindachner, Tiber einige Pleuronectiden, 



etc., aus Decastris Bay, 1870, p. 422, pi. 1, fig. 1. 

 Liopsetta pinnifasciata Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, 1906, 

 p. 217. 

 Two females, with cycloid, embedded scales, from the market at 

 Korsakov, Aniwa Bay, Sakhalin Island. 



Length. 



Dorsal 

 rays. 



Anal 

 rays. 



Pores. 



Gill- 

 rakers. 



mm. 

 285 

 275 



59 

 57 



42 

 41 



73 

 76 



4+8 

 4+10 



L. pinnifasciata is typical of the subgenus Liopsetta; it represents 

 L. glacialis in the northern Japanese fauna, and is closely allied to it, 

 differing in the deeper body, more pronounced bars on the fins, and 

 the longer snout. 



DEXISTES RIKUZENIUS Jordan and Starks. 



Dexistes rihuzenius Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, 1906, p. 

 212; Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1902 (1904), p. 624, pi. 6, fig. 1. 



Albatross station 4842, Dogo Island, Oki group, Sea of Japan. 



Albatross station 5046, off Matsushima Bay. 



Albatross station 5094, entrance to Gulf of Tokyo. 



Araias ariommus has the eye-ball scaly. It is identical with 

 Dexistes rikuzenius as stated by Jordan and Thompson. 



Dr. C. H. Gilbert (MS.) made the following color notes on a speci- 

 men from station 4843 : 



Lower side of head except snout, all of abdomen on blind side, and a tapering 

 area extending back on caudal peduncle silvery. Anteriorly this area includes more 

 than half the distance between the lateral line and the dorsal outline, beginning to 

 taper rapidly at origin of second half of its length. 



