NO. 1484. JAPANESE FLOUNDERS AND SOLES— JORDAN & STARKS. 235 



34. .^SOPIA Kaup. 



^sopia Kaup, Wiegmanns Archiv., 1858, p. 95. {Cornnta, as restricted by (lUN- 

 THER, Cat. Fish, IV, p. 487.) 



Scales e3^cloid, smooth; first dorsal ray prolonged; pectorals rudi- 

 mentary. Otherwise as in Zebrias. As originally constructed, ^Empia 

 was equivalent to Zehruis, but ^E. cornuta was included among the 

 species, originally renumerated by Kaup, and the name ^Esop/d was 

 restricted to that species by Giinther. Nevertheless we think that the 

 name ^Emj)ia should be used for the genus here called Zehriax. In 

 that case, cornuta should receive a new generic name. 



(^Esop, the author of classic fables, in allusion to the slave costume of 

 many stripes, worn b}' ^Esop, and by these fishes.) 



51. i^SOPIA CORNUTA Kaup. 



La 



Jerree potoo Russell, Fish Coroniandel, 1803, pi. lxxii (Vizagapatam, 

 Sole Cornue").— CuviER, Regiie Animal, 2d ed., 1828; after Ru.'^sell. 



^Efiopia rornutd Kaup, Wiegm. Archiv., 1858, p. 95 (British India). — Gunther, Cat. 

 Fish, IV, 1862, p. 487 (copied).— Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1873, p. 238 (India); 

 Fishes India, p. 438, pi. xciv, fig. 4 (Coromandel). 



Synaptura 2)otoo Bleeker, Bengal en Hindustan, p. 76, after Russell. 



Habitat. — India, north to Nagasaki. 



Head, 4f in length to base of caudal; depth, 3. Eye, 5i in head. 





Fig. 27.— ^SOPIA CORNUTA 



Dor,sal 79; anal, 66. Scales f rem jopposite gill opening to caudal, 9-i; 

 from upper eye to gill opening, 19. 



Jaws even in front, the gape extending back to below front edge of 

 pupil of lower eye. Teeth very small, in bands on blind side of jaws. 

 Eye contiguous, the upper very slightly in advance of lower. Ante- 

 rior nostril of colored side in a large tube, much longer and wider 

 than its mate of the opposite side. 



Eirst ray of dorsal swollen, produced, and covered with small ten- 

 tacles or villffi. It is situated vertically above anterior nostril and its 



