298 "ENDEAVOUR" SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



1. Paraplagusia acuminata. 



Plagusia acuminata, Castelnau, Researches Fish. Aus- 

 tralia, p. 44; Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 VI, 1882, p. 138. 



Hal). Western Australia. 



This species, which is known only from the type, 

 differs from all other members of the genus in having a 

 single lateral line on the ocular side. 



2. Paraplagusia unicolor. 

 [Tongue Sole, Lemon Sole.] 



Plagusia unicolor, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 VI, 1882, p. 138; Ogilby, Cat. Fish. N. S. Wales, p. 

 33 (1887). 



Symphurus unicolor, Stead, Fish. Australia, p. 182 

 (1906) ; Edible Fish. N. S. Wales, p. 107, pi. LXXIV 

 (1908). 



Paraplagusia unicolor, McCulloch, Austral. Zool., II, 

 1921, p. 47, pi. XIII; Lord, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 Tasmania, 1922, p. 66; McCulloch and Whitley, Rec. 

 Austral. Mus., XIV, 1925, p. 353, fig. 4. 



Depth of body 3f to 4 in the length, length of head 

 4^ to 5. Snout rounded, a little longer than head behind 

 lower eye; rostral hook rather long, its posterior edge 

 2f to 3 in length of head, ending below or a little behind 

 posterior edge of lower eye; interorbital width equal to 

 or less than diameter of eye, which is 8 to 11 in length 

 of head; upper eye in advance of lower; angle of mouth 

 below posterior part of eye, much nearer gill-opening than 

 end of snout. Fringes on lower lip usually strongly 

 arborescent. Dorsal 105-112. Anal 81-87. Scales 

 ctenoid, those of ocular side somewhat more strongly 

 denticulated than those of blind side; 89 to 95 in a 

 longitudinal series; two lateral lines on ocular side, 

 separated by 14 to 16 series of scales; no distinct lateral 

 line on blind side. Brownish, sometimes spotted and 

 marbled with darker. 



Hab. Coasts of New South Wales and southern 

 Queensland; Tasmania (?). 



Described from thirteen specimens, 210-245 mm. in 

 total length. 



E.1405. Off Hervey Bay, 17-20 miles N.W. of Lady 

 Elliot Island, Queensland; 18 fathoms. 



