no ILATFISHES (HETEROSOMATA) 



oi eves about lewl, llic upper separated from edge of head by a space equal to J to 

 J its diameter. Maxdlary extending to below middle of eye or a little beyond, length 

 2j to 25 ni that of head ; lower jaw not projecting, twice or nearly twice in head. 

 Teeth all small in both jaws, a little enlarged anteriorly ; 15 to 25 teeth on blind side 

 of lower jaw. Gill-rakers pointed, rather short ; 12 to 15 on lower part of anterior 

 arch. Scales of ocular side more or less ctenoid anteriorly, mostly cycloid on posterior 

 part of body ; a narrow strip of distinctly ctenoid scales at bases of dorsal and 

 anal fins ; scales of blind side cycloid ; 67 to 74 scales in lateral Ime. Supra- 

 temporal branch of lateral line nearly reaching base of ninth to eleventh ray of dorsal 

 tin. Dorsal 69-76 ; commencing in advance of anterior nostril of blind side, and at 

 a distance in front of eye equal to f to | its diameter ; a line connecting base of first 

 ray and posterior nostril, if continued, passes above hinder end of maxillary. Anal 

 51-56 ; tip of first interha>mal spine feeble, sometimes projecting. Sectoral of ocular 

 side with 11 or 12 rays, length li to if in that of head. Caudal double-truncate: 

 caudal peduncle 2^ to nearly 3 times as deep as long. Brownish or greyish, with 

 darker spots and l:)lotches ; often a number of pale spots and ocelli, which are .scattered 

 irregularly over the body and extend on to the median fins ; a round black blotch, 

 sometimes surrounded by white dots, at the junction of the straight and curved 

 parts of the lateral line, and usually another smaller blotch on middle of straight 

 portion ; median fins with small brown spots. 



Type. — Leiden Museum. 



Distribution. — East coast of India through the .Malay Peninsula and Archipelago 

 to southern China. 



Specimens Examined : 



5 (155-1S5 miii.). SmR,iporc Fishiiiarkct. Raffles Mus. 



t (200 mm.). I'.ir.ilvpc. H. Indian Archipelago. Bleeker, 



I (170 ,, ). Menam, R. Siam. Roy. Siamese Mils. 



I (185 ,, ). Xhatrang Bay, Indo-China. Paris Mus. 



I i22o ., ). Daipu, Hong Kong. Chen. 



I (107 ,. ). I.ink.ai, H.ilnan. 



17. I'SEUDORHOMBUS CINNAMONEUS (Temminck and Schle.gel). 



? PUuroiuclfS chrysnptvrits. Schneider, l8ol, in Bloch, Syst. Ichth., p. 131. 



V Plalessa chrysoptcra. Richardson, 1846, 15 Rept. Brit. Assoc. (Canihr. 1845), p. 278. 



Rhomhus cinnamoticus, Temminck and Schlegel, 1S46, in Siebold, F. Japon. (Pisces), p. 180, pi. xciii ; 



Richardson, 1846, hnn. cil., p. 279 ; Bleeker, 1858, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl., iii, Japan, p. 25. 

 I'sfiidnrhombus cinnamoimis. Gunther, 1862, Cat. Fish., iv, p. 427; Snyder, i(ii2, Proc. U.S. Nat. 



Mus.. xlii, p. 438 ; Schmidt, tgji, Trans. Pac. Com. Acad. Sci. U.S.S.R., u, p. 124 ; Schmidt, 



1931, C.R. Acad. Leningrad, p. 315 ; Norman, 1931, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hisl., (10) Mn. p. ,599 ; 



\Vu, 1932, Thes. Facult. Sci. Univ. Paris, A. 244 (268), p. 8.1. 

 Kliombiscus ctnnamoiuus. Jordan and Snyder, 1901, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxiii, p. 379. 

 I'seudtirhombus. misakius, Jordan and Starks, 1906, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxxi, p. 175, hgs. 4, 5 ; 



Jordan. Tanaka and Snyder, 1913, J. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, xxxiii (i), p. 316, fig. 264 ; Jordan and 



Thompson, 1914, .Mem. Carnegie Mus., vi, p. 306, fig. 79 ; Hubbs, 1915, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus.. 



xlviii, p. 463 ; Schmidt and Lindberg, 1930, Bull. Acad. Leningrad, p. 1147. 

 ? Psfudurhombus cmnamotieus, Tanaka, 191.3, Fish. Japan, xiv, p. 231, pi. Ixv, fig. 238. 

 Psetidorhimibus formosanui. Oshima, 1927, Japan. J. Zool., Trans. Abstr., i (5), p. 182. 

 Spiiurhombui laiwanm, Oshima, 1927, lum. cit. p. 189. 



Depth of body about twice in the length, length of head 35 to nearly 4. lipper 

 profile of head distinctly convex above eyes, notched in front of upper eye. Snout 

 (in adults) longer than eye, diameter of which is 4 to 5 in length of head ; anterior 

 margin of eyes about level, the upper separated from edge of head by a space equal 

 to about J its diameter. Maxillary extending to a little beyond middle of eye, length 

 2^ to 2^ in that of head ; lower jaw scarcely projecting, nearly twice in head. Teeth 

 all rather small, scarcely enlarged anteriorly (at least in lower jaw) ; 20 to 25 teeth 

 on blind side of lower jaw. Gill-rakers of moderate length, r.ither slender, margins 



