332 EXPEDITIOX OF THK ■'ALBATROSS," 1S99-1900. 



Platophrys pantherinus (Rippj'.ll). 



Jordan A Evermanx, Bull, I'. S. Fish. Coinin., l(t();"i, 23, ]it 1, ]). .')12. 

 Rhombus /Kihthcrinus Rupi'Ell, Atlas, 1828, ]i. 121, ])1. 31, fig. 1. 

 Uli(ii)i}i(uili()ithys pantherinuH GuNTHER, Fische der Siid.scc, 1009, 8, |). 342. 



No. A132, 9? inches long from Kambara, Fiji Islands. Three specimens 

 from the following ]ilaces in Paumotu Islands: Nos. A42, M. C. Z. 29735, 09008, 

 AI. C. Z. 29474, 7 and if inches long fi-om Fakarava and 05832. 5 inches long 

 from Makemo. 



No. 09012, 3| inches long from Guam. Nos. 09056 and 09097, 1^ and 3^ 

 inches long from Moen, Truk Group, Caroline Islands. No. 10060, \\ inches 

 long from Papeete, Tahiti, Society Islands. No. 09002, M. C. Z. 29535, 5^ 

 inches long from Namuka, Tonga Islands. 



In No. A42, dorsal 91, anal (i9; the pectoral not reaching edge of preopcrclc 

 and is 1.5 in head; eye eciuals distance between interorbital rims. 



In specimen A132, pectoral does not reach caudal, but is nearly twice as 

 long as head; dorsal 91; anal ()7. These specimens of P. pantherinus have a 

 much larger eye than P. mancus has, the upper eye being 4.33 in head, it about 

 equals the distance between the orbital rims; in P. mnncus the eye is 5.5 in head 

 and about half the distance between the orbital rims. 



SOLEIDAE. 



Pardachirus pavoninus (L.\cf.pede). 



.Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 1900, 25, p. 413. 



Arhirus pavoninns Lac. Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1S02, 4, p. O.W, (itiO, (idl. Day, Fishes iil' Imlia, 1877, j). 

 427, pi. 93, fig. 2. 



No. 08937, a .specimen 2| inches long from Tonga Islands. 



It is said of this species that only the scales on the head and anterior part 

 of body are ciliated, but in the specimen No. 08937 all the scales on both sides 

 of the body are ciliated. 



