492 PlEURONECTIDJi;. 



2. Plagusia bilineata. 



? Pleuronectes biliueatus, Bl. tab. 188 ; Bl. Schn. p. 158. 

 ? Russell, pi. 74. 



? Plagusia bilineata, Ctiv. Regne Anini. (not Bl.). 

 Plagusia bilineata, Cant. Catal. p. 227. 



blochii, Bleek. Verhand.Batav. Genootsch. xxiv. Pteuron, p. 21, or 



Nat. Tydschr. Nedmi. Ind. i. p. 411. 



D. 96-97. A. 70-73. C. 8. L. lat. 85. 



The height of the body is rather more than the length of the head, 

 and one-fourth of the total. Two lateral lines on the left side, sepa- 

 rated by twelve or thirteen longitudinal series of scales at the point 

 of their greatest distance. The length of the snout is contained 

 twice and a third in that of the head. The rostral hook extends to 

 the vertical from the posterior margin of the eye. Reddish-brown. 



Malayan Peninsula. East Indian Archipelago. 



a. Seven inches long : skin. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



— Tj-pe of his PL bilineata. 



b. Adult. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection, as PI. bilineata. 



3. Plagusia japonica. 



Schleg. Fmm. Japmi. Poiss. p. 187. pi. 95. fig. 2 ; Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Indo- 

 Nedeti. iii. Japan, iv. p. 26. 



D. 110. A. 88. C. 8. V. 4. L. lat. 100. 



The height of the body is contained four times and a sixth in the 

 total length, the length of the head four times and five-sixths. Three 

 lateral lines on the left side. The angle of the mouth is much nearer 

 to the gill-opening than to the extremity of the snout. The rostral 

 hook terminates below the eye. Brownish-green, with small scattered 

 black spots ; fins edged with yellow. 



Japan. 



34. CYNOGLOSSUS*. 



Plagusia, pt., Cuv. Regne Atiini. 

 Cynoglossus et Achirus, Ham. Buck. 



Cantoria, Arelia, Trulla, et Icania, Kaup in Wiegm. Arch. 1858, p. 106, 

 etc. 



Eyes on the left side ; pectorals none; vertical fins confluent. Scales 

 ctenoid ; lateral line on the left side double or triple ; upper part of 

 the snout produced backwards into a hook ; mouth unsymmetrical, 



* 1. Jerree potoo, Buss. i. p. 57. tab. 73. — Plagusia potous, Cuv. Eigne Anim. 

 — Coromandel. 



2. Plagusia macrorhynchus, Bleek. Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxiv. Pleur. 



p. 22, or Nat. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind. i. p. 413. — Arelia macrorhynchus, 

 Bleek. Enum. p. 185. — Java. 



3. Plagiusa auro-limbata, Richards. Ichth. Chin. p. 280. — China. 



4. nigro-labeculata, Richards. I. c. — China. 



5. grammica, Richards. I. c. — The typical specimen is in the Collection 



of the Cambridge Philosopliical Society. 

 6. flavosquamis, Richards, l.r. p. 281. — China. 



