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curved) of the anterior part of the dorsal edge of the 
body. The eyes, though they do not entirely fill the 
orbits, are fairly large, their longitudinal diameter in 
full-grown specimens, more than 35 cm. long, measur- 
ing from 2 / 5 to Vs °f the postorbital length of the head. 
diameter. The operculum and suboperculum are like 
those of the preceding forms. The sinus in the hind 
margin is shallow and filled by the branchiostegal mem- 
brane. The gill-opening scarcely extends up to a level 
with the middle of the upper eye, though the upper arti- 
Fig. 115. Lepidorhombus whiff , seen from the eye side and from the blind side, 1 / 3 of the natural size. Specimen taken by 
Fisherman Olsson on the fishing-bank of Jaderen in 1874. 
The dividing wall between them (the narrow frontal 
bones), a rounded, longitudinal carina, measures at the 
narrowest spot, in old specimens, between 4 and 5 V 2 dm. 
in length, only 1 / 5 or scarcely 1 / 4 of their longitudinal 
dilation of the preoperculum occurs here. The pre- 
operculum is obtuse-angled, with rounded corner. The 
interoperculum is long, a little shorter than the maxil- 
lary bones, and of uniform breadth. The mouth is 
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Scandinavian Fishes. 
