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II. Right pelvic fin with 16 to 13 rays. 



A. Depth of body 1 to 2 in the length; a fleshy tubercle at 



tip of first ray of left pectoral. 



1. Maxillary not reaching anterior edge of eye; 78 scales 



in a longitudinal series 3. tudori 



2. Maxillary extending beyond anterior edge of eye; 66 



scales in a longitudinal series 4. macrolepis 



B. Depth of body 2J to 2^ in the length; left pectoral normal 



5. elongatus 



1. Ammotretis rostratus. 

 [Long-snouted Flounder.] 



Ammotretis rostratus, Gtinther, Cat. Fish., IV, p. 458 

 (1862) ; Steindachner, Sitzber. K. Ak. Wiss., LXXX, 

 Abt. 1, 1880, p. 171 ; Klunzinger, i.e., p. 407 ; Macleay, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, VI, 1882, p. 128 ; Waite, 

 Mem. Austral. Mus., IV, 1899, p. 123 ; Stead, Edible 

 Fish. N. S. Wales, p. 103, pi. LXX (1908) ; 

 McCulloch, Biol. Kes. "Endeavour," II, 1914, p. 121 ; 

 Waite, Rec. S. Austral. Mus., II, 1921, p. 158, fig. 

 259; McCulloch, Austral. Zool., II, 1921, p. 46, pi. 

 XIII; Waite, Fishes S. Austral., p. 182, fig. (1923). 



Rhombosolea tapir ina (part), Gtinther, Cat. Fish., IV, p. 

 459 (1862). 



Ammotretis rostratus vel adspersus, Kner, Reise 

 "Novara," Zool. I, 5, Fische, p. 286, pi. XIII, fig. 4 

 (1869). 



RJwmbosolea basseiisis, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Vic- 

 toria, I, 1872, p. 167 ; Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. 

 Wales, VI, 1882, p. 132. 



8olea uncinata, Klunzinger, Sitzber, K. Ak. Wiss., 

 LXXX, Abt. 1, 1880, p. 408. 



Ammotretis zonatus, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. 

 Wales, VII, 1883, p. 367. 



Ammotretis macleayi, Ogilby, ibid, X, 1886, p. 122. 



Ammotretis adspersus, Ogilby, Cat. Fish. N. S. Wales, p. 

 32 (1887). 



Peltorliamphus bassensis, Waite, Rec. Austral. Mus., VI, 

 1906, p. 198, pi. XXXIV. 

 Depth of body 1| to 1* in the length, length of head 



3^ to 4. Rostral hook extending downwards almost to 



level of posterior end of maxillary of ocular side. Lower 



eye a little in advance of upper, diameter of which is 



