290 ''ENDEAVOUR" SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



Solea (Aseraggodes) test His, Ramsay and Ogilby, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales (2), I, 1887, p. 6. 



Aseraggodes haackcana, McCulloch, Mem. Queensland 

 Mus.. V, 1916, p. 59; Waite, Eec. S. Austral. Mus., 

 II, 1921, p. 160, Jig. 262 ; Fishes S. Australia, p. 184, 

 fig. (1923). 



Hat. St. Vincent Gulf, South Australia. 



3. Aseraggodes melanostictus. 



(Fig. 12.) 



Solea (Achirus) melanosticta, Peters, Monatsber. K. 

 Preus. Akad. Berlin, 1876, p. 845. 



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

 4 to 4^. Snout short, its tip a little below level of 

 lower eye. Upper eye somewhat in advance of lower; 

 diameter more than ^ length of snout, twice or more than 

 twice interorbital width, and 4^ to 5^ in length of head. 

 Maxillary extending a little beyond anterior edge of eye. 

 No dilated nostril on blind side. Scales of ocular side 

 ctenoid, those of blind side weakly ctenoid or cycloid; 

 68 to 72 in a longitudinal series, 25 to 26 between lateral 

 line and highest point of dorsal profile. Lateral line of 

 blind side with an accessory branch running backwards 

 from snout just below dorsal fin and extending as far as 

 the sixteenth to nineteenth rays. Dorsal 64-68; anterior 

 ray inserted level with upper eye, preceded by a series of 

 filaments. Anal 50-52. No pectoral fins. Right pelvic 

 fin a little longer than left, with which it may be partly 

 joined posteriorly ; both pelvics connected by a membrane 

 with the urinogenital papilla, which is similarly joined to 

 first anal ray. Caudal with 2/14/2 rays ; rounded. Depth 

 of caudal peduncle 1 to If in length of head. Anus 

 somewhat displaced on to blind side. Greyish brown, 

 with numerous small black dots, and traces of some 

 lighter markings on head and body; some of the scales 

 with darker edges ; sometimes one or two indistinct dusky 

 blotches near lateral line; fins with a few dark dots. 



Hab. Solomon Islands; east coast of Queensland. 



Not recorded previously from Australia. 



Described from three specimens, 130-142 mm. in total 

 length. 



E.2870. Off Gladstone, Queensland. 

 E.2860. (2) Locality unknown. 



