132 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



Ventral as in 72. monopus xnxLleporina. Uniform brown. Length 

 fourteen inches. 



Port Phillip. " Flounder " of the Fishermen. 



789. Bhombosolea BASSENSis, Casteln. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. I., p. 167. 



" The Sole " of the Melbourne Pishmarket. 



D. 75. A. 51. P. 12. C. 18. V. 7. L.lat. 90. 



The height of the body is contained twice and a-half in the 

 total length, the length of the head five times ; the space between 

 the eyes is covered with scales and is one-half the longitudinal 

 diameter of the eye in width ; the lower eye is considerably in 

 advance of the upper ; the length of the snout is contained three 

 times and two-thirds in the length of the head, the eye five times. 

 The dorsal fin begins at the extremity of the snout, the first 

 twenty-five rays are prolonged into short filaments. Teeth on 

 the blind side numerous, conical and sharp, in four or five 

 irregular lines. Scales of body punctate-striate and strongly 

 ciliated ; the fin rays scaly. Dark brown, marbled with black, 

 sometimes nearly entirely black. 



Yarra River, Melbourne. 



790. EnoMBOsoLEA ViCTOBLas, Casteln. 



Plearonectes ? Victoria, Casteln., Proc. Zool. Soc, Victoria, Vol. 



L, p. 168. 



D. 56-57. A. 41-42. P. 11. C. 19. V. 6. L. lat. 85. 



The height of the body is twice and one-third in the total 

 length, the length of the head a little over four times ; diameter 

 of eye five times in the length of the head ; the space between 

 the eyes narrow and scaleless ; teeth on the blind side long, 

 slender, and numerous ; the snout up to the edge of the lower 

 eye, is as long as the diameter of the latter ; the lateral line is 

 straight, a branch from the operculum runs obliquely to the fifth 



