14. PSEUBORHOMBtJS. 423 



b-li. Adult and half-grown : skins. Jamaica. From Dr. Parnell's 



Collection. 

 i. Adult. 



HippogJossus ocellatiis, Poey, Mem. Cub. ii. 1861, p. 314, appears 

 to bo very closely allied to Marcgrave's species ; but its body is 

 rather more elongate. Poey states — D. 89. A. 72. The fin-rays 

 are said to be scaleless. 



2. Hemirhombus guineensis. 



Sleeker, in litt. 



D. 86. A. 64. P. 11. L. lat. 52-56. 



The height of the body is contained thrice in the total length, the 

 length of the head four times and four-fifths ; the width of the inter- 

 orbital space is one-fourth of that of the orbit ; cleft of the mouth 

 curved ; jaws subequal anteriorly, the maxillary extendhig to below 

 the middle of the eye, its length being contained twice and two-fifths 

 in that of the head. A pair of canine teeth anteriorly. The scales 

 on the cheek are in eleven or twelve series. Scales cycloid. Green- 

 ish. {Bl.) 



Coast of Guinea. 



3. Hemirhombus (?) soleaeformis. 



Rhombus soleaeformis, Agass. in Spix, Fisc. Bras. p. 86. tab. 47. 

 D. 88. A. 72. 



Scales of moderate size, very thin, deciduous, provided with minute 

 spines. The lateral line passes gradually and in an obhque direction 

 into its straight portion. The height of the body is two-fifths of the 

 total length (without caudal), the length of the head one-fourth. The 

 lower jaw is rather the longer. The eyes are separated from each 

 other by a scaly interspace, which is as wide as the orbit ; nearly the 

 whole of the lower eye is in advance of the upper. Dark-olive, with 

 a large round black spot on the origin of the lateral line. {Ag.) 



Atlantic. 



Typical specimens in the Museum at Munich. 



14. PSEUDORHOMBUS*. 



Pseudorhombus, Bleek. in Comj}t. Rend. Acad. Sc. Amsterd. xiii. 1802, 

 Pk'uran. p. 5. 

 Mouth wide, the length of the maxillary being more than one- 

 third of that of the head. Teeth in both jaws in a single scries, of 

 imequal size ; vomerine and palatine teeth none. The dorsal fin 



* 1. Russell, pi. 75. — Rhombus niaculosus, Ciiv. Begne Anim. — Coroiuandel. 



2. Pleiironectes nauphala, Ham. Buck. Gang. Fish. p. 126. — Ganges. 



3. Hippoglossus kingii, Jcnyn.% appears to be closely allied to the present 



genus. See p. i>99. 



4. Rhombus eocoscnsis, Blcck. Kokns, iii. p. 179. — \Vc shall again mention 



this species at the end of Rhoiidwidichthys (p. 438). 



