288 "ENDEAVOUR" SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



Several species from the Indo-Pacific ; two known 

 from Australia. 14 



Synopsis of Australian Species. 



I. Marginal spinules of scales feebly developed or absent; right 

 pelvic fin separated from anal by a narrow space which is 

 less than diameter of eye, joined by a membrane to the 



urinogenital papilla; body without black blotches 



1. pavoninus 



II. Marginal spinules of scales well developed; right pelvic fin 

 separated from anal by a space which is greater than 

 diameter of eye, not joined to urinogenital papilla; 3 

 series of black blotches on body, in addition to the usual 

 ocelli 2. hedleyi 



1. Pardachirus pavoninus. 

 [Peacock Sole.] 



Achirus pavoninus, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, pp. 



658, 661 (1902). 

 Pardachirus pavoninus, Giinther, Cat. Fish., IV, p. 479 



(1862) ; Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., V, 1916, p. 



142, pi. XVI [q.v. for full synonymy of this species]. 



Hab. Andaman Islands, through the Malay Archi- 

 pelago to Southern Japan, Australia and the Pacific; 

 Australia; northern Queensland. 



In this species all the scales of the ocular side are 

 provided with a rough patch posteriorly; the marginal 

 spines are few and feeble or altogether absent, and, if 

 present, are generally confined to the scales of the head 

 and anterior part of the body. The scales of the blind 

 side are similar, but the rough patch is smaller. 



2. Pardachirus hedleyi. 

 [Southern Peacock Sole.] 



Pardachirus hedleyi, Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., V, 

 1916, p. 144, pi. XVII [q.v. for full synonymy of this 

 species] ; McCulloch, Austral. Zool., II, 1921, p. 47, 

 pi. XIII. 



11 A third species of this genus may occur in Australian waters, 

 if Weber's identification of his P. klunzingeri with P. poropterus (?) 

 of Klunzinger is correct : 



Pardachirus klunzingeri. 

 Solea (Achirus) poropterus (?), Klunzinger, Sitzber, K. Ak. Wiss. 



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

 Pardachirus klunzingeri, Weber, Nova Guinea, V, Zool., 1907, p. 250, 



pi. XIII, fig. 2. 



Hab. New Guinea (Weber) ; Port Darwin, Northern Territory 

 (Klunzinger). 



