14 PLEUEONECTIDJE OF POET JACKSON 



Heads o£ Port Jackson is evidenced by the specimens taken on 

 the occasion I am narrating. The remaining species met Tvith 

 are new and may be described as follows : — 



Synaptfea fasciata. 

 D. + C.+A. 148. 



Porm rather elongate, the height being twice and a half in the 

 total length ; the head is short ; the mouth small and much twisted 

 to the blind side ; the teeth are minute and regular ; the eyes are 

 in the same vertical plane, and about their vertical diameter apart ; 

 the dorsal fin commences over the eye, the rays are short ; the 

 oaudal fin is rather pointed ; the ventrals are equal in size ; 

 pectoral fins none ; the lateral line is straight ; the scales are 

 strongly denticulated on the free margin. The colour is a pale 

 brown, with about twenty dark brown vertical about equidistant 

 bars over the head and body ; the fins are blackish. Length 

 five inches. 



One specimen only captured. 



LOPHOKHOMBrS, TICW fjeiius. 



Eyes on the left side and close together, the lower rather in 

 advance of the upper. Mouth small, dentition rather feeble, 

 equally developed on both sides. Vertical fins not continuous 

 with the caudal. Anterior rays of dorsal fin elongate. Pectoral 

 fins well developed. Scales large, smooth, finely ciliated, and 

 rather deciduous. Lateral line much curved above the pectoral 

 fin. 



LOPHORHOMBUS CRISTATUS, 11. Sp. 



D. 85. A. 72. C. 16. P. 12. V. 6. 



Height of body one-half of the total length ; the eyes large, 

 separated only by a narrow prominent ridge ; the dorsal fin 

 commences near the snout, and in front of the upper eye ; the 

 first three rays are elongate, more than twice the length of the 



