BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 133 



793. SoLEA MIC110CEPHALA, Gunth. 



Gunth., Cat. Pishes IV., p. 466. 



D. 79. A. 65. P. 11. L. lat. 90. 



The height of the "body is contained twice and three-quarters 

 in the length (without caudal), the length of the head nearly six 

 times. Each scale with about thirteen spines on its margin. Jaws 

 equal in length anteriorly ; the nostril on the coloured side is 

 prolonged into a tube as long as the eye ; the left side of the 

 snout with numerous short papilla). Eyes very close together, 

 the upper slightly in advance. Pectoral fin with broad base, not 

 much shorter than the head ; that on the left side is very short 

 and attached to the gill-membrane by a fold ; ventrals separate, 

 not continuous with the anal. The dorsal and anal fins terminate 

 immediately before the root of the caudal, their posterior rays 

 extending beyond the middle of the caudal. Anterior dorsal rays 

 short ; caudal entirely free, its length being eight times and 

 a-half in the total length. Brown, with eleven or thirteen dark 

 cross-hands, broader than the interspaces : the first on the snout, 

 the second immediately behind the eyes, the last across the root 

 of the caudal ; vertical fins black. 



Port Jackson. 



794. Solea Macleayajsta, Eamsay. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. M. S. Wales, Vol. V., p. 462. 

 Port Jackson. 



Genus Pardachirus, Gunth. 



Eyes on the right side, the upper in advance of the lower. 

 Mouth unsymmetrical, narrow, narrower on the left side than on 

 the right ; teeth minute, on the blind side only. Dorsal and 

 anal rays scaly ; the dorsal commences on the extremity of the 

 snout, and terminates at the root of the caudal. Pectorals none. 

 Two separate ventrals. Scales small, not or only slightly ciliated; 



