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E.1958-1960. (6) 25 miles off Bustard Head Light, 

 Queensland; 20 fathoms. 



E.2858. Platypus Bay, Queensland; 7-9 fathoms. 



E.6672-3. (3) 37 miles N.W. of Hervey Bay, Queens- 

 land ; 9-11 fathoms. 



E.2613. 3-7 miles N.W. of Hervey Bay, Queensland ; 

 9-11 fathoms. 



2. Pseudorhombus tenuirastrum. 



[Deep-water Flounder; Slender Flounder.] 



Paralichthys tenuirastrwm, Waite, Mem. Austral. Mus. 

 IV, 1899, p. 121, pi. XXVIII, text-fig. 10. 



Pxeudorliombus tenuirastrum, Ogilby, Mem. Queensland 

 Mus., I, 1912, pp. 43, 45; McCulloch, Biol. Res. 

 "Endeavour," II, p. 130 (1914) ; McCulloch, Austral. 

 Zool., II, 1921, p. 45; Lord, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 Tasmania (1922), 1923, p. 65. 



Depth of body 2-J to 2^ in the length, length of head 

 4 to 4^. Dorsal profile of head notched in front of eyes. 

 Snout shorter than eye, diameter of which is 4 to 4| in 

 length of head ; upper eye generally a little in advance 

 of lower, and close to upper edge of head. Maxillary 

 extending about to below middle of eye, length 2| to 3 

 in head; lower jaw a little projecting, a small knob at 

 the symphysis, length 2 to 2^ in head. Teeth all small, 

 rather close-set, scarcely enlarged anteriorly. Gill- 

 rakers rather slender, 4-6 times as long as broad, their 

 inner edges feebly spinulate; 11-13 on lower part of 

 anterior arch. Scales of both sides of body cycloid, those 

 of the ocular side frequently with a rough or spiny patch 

 well within the hinder margin of the scale; (73) 75-82 

 scales in a longitudinal series, 27 to 33 between lateral 

 line and highest point of dorsal profile. Height of arch 

 of lateral line 2^ to 2f in length of same; an accessory 

 branch generally well-developed, reaching base of eighth 

 or ninth ray of dorsal fin. Dorsal (73) 74-80; commenc- 

 ing just behind level of posterior nostril of blind side, 

 and above or a little in front of anterior edge of eye. 

 Anal 58-61 (63) ; no visible spine. Left pectoral with 11 

 to 13 rays (6 to 8 branched), base oblique, length 1^ to If 

 in head. Caudal with 2/13/2 rays, middle rays longest, 

 equal to or greater than length of head. Length of caudal 

 peduncle more than twice in its depth, which is about 



