PARALICHTHIN.t; 



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with small dark spots forming fine irregular lines running along the body between 

 the series of scales ; all the fin-rays finely dotted with brown or black. 



Type. — British Museum (Nat. Hist.). Reg. No. 79.5.14.58. 



Distribution. — Magellan-Falkland Islands region of south-eastern South .\merica. 



Specimens Examined : 



Genus 3. HIPPOGLOSSINA. 



Hippoglossina, Steindachner, 1876, SitzBer. Akad. 

 macrops, Steindachner] ; Jordan and Evermann 



Body ovate, compressed. Eyes normally on the left side," separated by a bony 

 ridge. Olfactory laminae not numerous, radiating from a rather short central rachis. 

 Mouth of moderate size or large, the length of the maxillary more than \ that of 

 head ; jaws and dentition about equally developed on both sides ; teeth small, 

 pointed, not much enlarged anteriorly, uniserial in both jaws ; vomer toothless. 

 Gill-rakers rather long and slender ; lower pharyngeals each with numerous rows of 

 minute, pointed teeth. Dorsal fin commencing well behind posterior nostril of blind 

 side and above middle of eye ; most of the rays simple, scaled on both sides. Anal 

 fin preceded by projecting tip of first interhsemal spine. Pectoral fins unequal, that 

 of ocular side larger, but not prolonged ; middle rays branched. Pelvic fins short- 

 based, subequal and subsymmetrical. Scales small, ctenoid on ocular side, ctenoid 



H. stomata and H . macrops 



indifferently dextral or sinistral. 



