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edge. Anal 51-54; no visible spine. Left pectoral with 

 10 or 11 rays (6 to 8 branched), base oblique, length If 

 to 1| in head. Caudal with 2/13/2 rays, middle rays 

 longest, about i length of head. Caudal peduncle about 

 3 times as deep as long, depth 2 to 2i in length of head. 

 Brownish, with darker spots and markings, of which 5 

 large, conspicuous ocelli arranged thus '.'. are most 

 prominent; fins with brown spots, a series of annular 

 markings on dorsal and anal fins. 



Halt. Aru Islands; Southern Queensland. Not 

 recorded previously from Australia. 



Described from 3 specimens, 160-180 mm. in total 

 length. 



E.2610. ?> 7 miles X.W. of Hervey Bay, Queensland, 

 Fairway Buoy ; 9-11 fathoms. 



E.6675-6. 3-7 miles X.W. of Hervey Bay, Queens- 

 land, Fairway Buoy; 9 11 fathoms. 



This species is close to P. occllifer, Regan, from 

 Japan, and to /-*. pentophthalmus, Giinther, from China, 

 differing chiefly in the shorter head, smaller mouth, more 

 posterior origin of dorsal fin, and deeper caudal peduncle. 



8. Pseudo-rhombus multimaculatus. 

 [Small-toothed Flounder.] 



Platessa ?, Jenyns, Zoology "Beagle," III, p. 138, 



1842. 5 



Pseud orhombus multimaculatus, Giinther, Cat. Fish., IV, 

 p. 427 (1862) ; Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. Wales, 

 VI, 1882, p. 125; Ogilby, Cat. Fish. N. S. Wales, p. 

 32 (1887) ; Ogilby, Edible Fish. Crust. X. S. Wales, 

 p. 157, pi. XXXVIII (1893) ; Waite, Rep. Fish. 

 "Thetis," p. 46 (1898) ; McCulloch, Biol. Res. 

 "Endeavour," II, p, 131, pi. XXIV (1914) ; Austral. 

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

 Tasmania, 1922, p. 65. 



? Pseudorhombus inoorei, Thominot, Bull. Soc. Philom., 

 Ser. 7, IV, 1880, p. 175. 



Pseudorhombus multiradiatus (lapsus calami), Macleay, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. Wales, VII, 1883, p. 18. 



" I have examined the specimen collected by the "Beagle" in 

 King George's Sound, and described by Jenyns as Platessa sp. This 

 is a dried skin, and appears to belong to this species. 



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