392 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. ' 



Lophopsetta maculata Verrill, Am. Nat., i, 1871, p. 399. 



Bo thus maculatus Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 



135. 

 Pleuronectes maculatus Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, 



P- 363. 



Genus Etropus Jordan and Gilbert. 



The Little Flounders.' 

 Etropus microstomus (Gill). 



Head 5, in total; depth 2j^, in total; D. 81; A. 58; C. 4, 6, 

 5, 3; P. 10; V. 6; scales about 42 in lateral line, 10 above and 

 14 below; snout scarcely 7 in head; eye about 3^^; upper jaw 

 4; mandible 2}4 ; fortieth dorsal ray 10 in total length; caudal 

 6; colored pectoral 6%; pale pectoral 10; colored ventral 14; 

 pale ventral less than 12 ; caudal peduncle about 11. Head rather 

 abbreviated, scarcely sinnous above eyes, blunt at snout. Rostral 

 area rhombic, not higher than long. Eyes even. Mouth rather 

 small. Teeth very small, close together, larger in front. Scales 

 large, angular behind, covered with smaller ones, especially npar 

 point of junction of contiguous ones, where alone they are de- 

 veloped on blind side. Scales of eyed side mostly minutely 

 ciliated behind, unarmed, however, near lateral line, and scales 

 of last quadrate and mostly covered. Scales of blind side less 

 angular behind and unarmed. Dorsal commences above front 

 rim of orbit, and highest and convergent near fortieth ray. Anal 

 highest at about twenty-fifth ray, and as high, or even higher 

 than dorsal. Caudal rounded behind. Pectorals unequally de- 

 veloped, that of dark side prolonged, while that of white side 

 only equals a tenth of same, rays all simple. Ventrals also un- 

 equally developed, right on abdominal ridge at its origin, rather 

 in advance of opercular margin and stretched backwards, extend- 

 ing to second anal ray. Ventral on white side more advanced, 

 wider, rays longer, and extending backward near third anal ray. 

 Color uniform reddish-brown. Little more than 3 inches. Bees- 

 ley's Point. (Gill.) 



