PARALICHTHIN.E 



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ocellus, as well as the ocellus itself, may be margined with small white spots ; fins with 

 small brown spots ; generally a series of rings on dorsal and anal, and sometimes a 

 pair on base of caudal. 



Type. — British Museum (Nat. Hist.). Reg. No. 1905.6.6.243. 



Distribution. — From the Nicobar Islands through the Malay Archipelago to 

 north-eastern Australia and Japan. 



Specimens Ex.\mined : 



Also several from Queensland and New South Wales (Austr. Mus. 

 and one from the Nicobars (Ind. Mus.). 



Endeavour "), 



4. PSEUDO RHOMBUS TENUIRASTRUM (Waite). 

 [Deep-water Flounder ; Slender Flounder.] 



Paralickthys tfnuirastrum, Waite, 1899, Mem. Aust. Mus., ii 

 Pseudorkombus tenuirastrum, Ogilby, 1912, Mem. Qd. Mus., 



Res. " Endeavour ", ii, p. 130 ; Norman, 1926, Biol. Res 



1929, Mem. .Aust. Mus., v, p. 279. 



;viii, text-fig. 10. 

 McCuUoch, 1914, Biol. 

 ', V, p. 225 ; McCuUoch, 



-Pseudorho, 



Depth of body 2| to 2J in the length, length of head 4 to 4J. Upper profile of 

 head notched in front of eyes. Snout shorter than eye, diameter of which is 4 to 4^ 

 in length of head ; upper eye generally a little in advance of lower, and close to upper 

 edge of head. Maxillary extending about to below middle of eye, length 2J to 3 in 

 that of head ; lower jaw a little projecting, 2 to 2^ in head. Teeth all small, rather 

 close-set, little enlarged anteriorly. Gill-rakers rather long and slender : 11 to 13 on 

 lower part of anterior arch. Scales cycloid on both sides of body, those on the ocular 

 side frequently with a rough or spiny patch well within the hinder margin of the 

 scale ; 71 to 80 scales in lateral line. Supratemporal branch of lateral line reaching 



