FI.AIFISHES (HKTKK(^SOMAIA) 



Hrlt. Assoc 



p. -^7 



d (iiinther, iS(i(.. l-ish. Zanzibar, 

 ler, 186'), Keiso 



I'Uunmoli-s n,d,ik,i. Cuvier. IS.-.). K. Alum., cd. _'. ii. p. 14,.. 



Hipposlossiis (ti-nlex. Kichardscm, 1S4.S. /.uol. 'Sulphur". | 

 (Camhr., 18.(5), p. 278. 



Hipploglossus iirlhorhynchus, Richardson. i.-i-(i>, ii Kept, linl 



Hipplosossus fifiiiinoraphicus, Richardson, 1840, Intn. cit., p. 2 



Psrllviles enimci. (Uinthi-r, 18(1:!, Cat. Fish., iv, p. 4.i.' : Playf: 



p. 112: Hh'ckcr, 1S66-72, Atlas Ichth., vi, p. 4, Pleuron., pi. i, fig. 2; K 

 " Novara ", Zool., i, 5, Kische, p. 2S2 ; Khinzinger, 1870, Vcrli. /-ool.-bot. (ics. VVien, .vxi, p, 

 .570; Day, 1S77, Fish. India, p. 422, pi. xci, fig. 4; Saville Kent, 1803, Grcit Harrier Reef 

 p. ;(|7, pi. .\lvi, fig. 5 ; Barnard, i')25, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., xxi, p. 383, pi. xvii, fig. i ; Norman 

 1026, Biol. Res. " Endeavour", \', p. 2ji ; Xornian, 1927, Rcc. Ind. Mus.. xxix, p. 8, fig. 1 

 Oshinia, l'(27, lapan. J. Zool., Trans. Abstr., i (5), p. 178 ; Weber and Beaufort, I'|2(|, Fisli 

 IndO' Austral. Arch., v, p. 07, fig. 24; McCuiloch, 1920, Mem. Aust. Mus., v, p. 2r<i ; W " 

 11)32, This. Facult. Sci. I'niv. Paris, A. 244 (268), p. 73. 



s/';i,iS">Hi.rii> cnimct. Cope, i8fi.i. Trans. Ainer. Phil. Soc. Phil.id.. xiii, p. 407. 



l\,:l,i,l,-. ^.■nn^^riifhutis. lileeK.-i . tS;;. •N'ed. Fildsrhr. Dlcrk., iv, p. 130. 



Depth uf body -^i tu Jj in the lenf,'th, leii.^th <if head 3J to 35. Snotit a.s Idii.!^ as or 

 a little longer than eye, diameter of which is 5 (young) to 7 in length of head and greater 

 than interorbital width. Maxillary extending to well beyond posterior edge of eye, 

 length 1 1 to I J in that of head ; length of lower jaw 3 1, to 4 J in that of fish (without 

 caudal). 08 to 7O scales in a longitudinal series above lateral line, 22 to 28 between 

 lateral line and middle of back, 32 to 38 round caudal peduncle. Dorsal 50-56 ; 

 origin above or a little behind level of hinder edge of lower eye. Anal 34-43. Pectoral 

 of ocular side with 14 to 16 rays, length 2^ to 2| in that of head. Caudal with 17 

 rays {15 branched), truncate or double-truncate ; caudal peduncle deeper than long. 

 Brownish or greyish, sometimes with four broad dark transverse bars ; body some- 

 times with small scattered wlute spots : dorsal, anal and posterior part of caudal 



darker, the caudal sometimes w 



with small dark spots. 



Type. — Zoologisches Museum 

 Distribution. — East Africa ; 

 Specimi-:ns Examined : 



ith 



distinct blacldsh band pcsteriorly ; pectoral 



der Llni\ersitat, Berlin, 

 n.l the Red Sea to the !': 



(.540 ni 



I.), sluflcd. 



Jayakar. 

 I'ownsend. 

 Plavfair. 



