io6 FLATFISHES (HKTP:R0S0.MATA) 



and sometimes an inconspicuous fourth ocellus above the curved portion : sometimes 

 .1 faint blotch at junction of straight and curved parts of lateral hne ; median tins 

 with small brown spots. 



Tvpi:, — Indian Museum, No. F.3441 i. 



Distribution. — Coast of Orissa, India. 



Specimens Examineh : 



I (ii.smm.i. P.iratype. I'uri Kc.uh. Ori^sa. liid. MiH. 



Also the holotype (165 mm ) and one other specimen from Orissa (Ind. Mus.). 



14. I'SEUDORHOMBUS PENTOPHTHALMUS, Giinther. 



Pictidnrhumlms pcntophlhalmus, (iunther, 186::, Cat. i-ish.,iv, p. 428 ; Cunther, iS8n, Shore Fishes, 



"Challenger", p. 6q ; Jordan and Starks, IQ04, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., xxii, (1Q02), p. 626; 



Fowler and Bean, io::2, Pror. U.S. Xat. Mus., Ixu (2), p. 66 ; Weber and Beaufort, lo^o. Fish. 



Indo-Austral. Arch., v, p. 114 ; Norman, lo.-ji, Ann. Mag. Xat. Hist, (to), viii, p. VV) ; Wu, 



I'fSl, Thes. Facult. Sci. Univ. Pans, A. 244 (268), p. 88. 

 Pieudorlwmbus riissdlti, Otaki, 1897, J. Fish. Bur. Tokyo, p. 6. 

 Pscudorhnnibus ocdUfer. Regan, 1905, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) xv, p. 25 ; Jordan and Starks, 



1906, Proc. U.S. Xat. Mus., xxxi, p. 17S ; Hubbs, iqi.'i, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlviii, p. 463 ; 



Jordan and Hubbs, 1925, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vi, p. 297 ; Oshinia, 1927, Japan. J. ZooL, Trans. 



.^bstr., i (5), p. 186 ; Schmidt and Lindberg, 1930, Bull. Acad. Leningrad, p. 1147. 

 ? Pscudorhombits antiamctisis , Chabanaud, 1929, Bull. Mus. Hist. nat. Pans, {2} i, p. 374. 

 Ariwf^lussits wakiyat, Schmidt, 1931, C. R. Acad. Leningrad, p. 313, tig. r. 



Depth of body 2 to 2j in the length, length of head 3J to 3f. Upper profile of 

 head notched in front of eyes. Snout as long as or shorter than eye, diameter of 

 wliich is 33 to 4^ in length of head ; anterior margins of eyes level, the upper eye 

 rather close to edge of head. Maxillary extending to below middle of eye or 

 beyond, length 2 to 2J in that of head ; lower jaw not projecting, ij to 15 in head. 

 Teeth all rather small and close-set, somewhat enlarged anteriorly ; more than 20 on 

 blind side of lower jaw, GilPrakers rather long and slender ; (15) 17 or 18 on lower 

 part of anterior arch Scales ctenoid on ocular side, cycloid on lilind side ; i)2 to 



