PARALICHTHIN.'E 



"3 



Supratemporal branch of lateral line extending towards base of seventh to ninth ray 

 of dorsal fin. Dorsal 68-6g ; commencing just behind posterior nostril of blind side, 

 and immediately in front of eye or above its anterior edge. Anal 51-54 ; tip of first 

 interhaemal spine feeble, not projecting. Pectoral of ocular side with 10 or 11 rays, 

 length 15 to I J in that of head. Caudal double-truncate; caudal peduncle about 

 3 times as deep as long. Brownish, with darker spots and rings, and with 5 more or 

 less conspicuous ocelli arranged thus, : : • ; median fins with brown spots ; a series 

 of rings on dorsal and anal. 



Fig. 70. — Pseudorhombus argu 



;.M. (N.H.) I925.7,,:;=.34. X 



Type. — Amsterdam Museum. 



Distribution. — Aru Islands ; southern Queensland. 

 Specimens Examined : 



I (175 mm.) 3 to 7 miles N.W. of Hervey Bay, 



Queensland 9-1 1 fms. 



Austr. Mus. 

 (" Endeavour "}. 



Also 2 from southern Queensland (Austr. Mus. " Endeavour "). 

 This species is very closely related to P.jenynsii (Bleaker), but may be distinguished 

 by the more numerous gill-rakers. 



20. PSEUDORHOMBUS JENYNSII (Bleeker). 



[Small-toothed Flounder.] 



Platessa ?, Jenyns, 1842, Zool. Voy. " Beagle ", iv, Fish, p. 138. 



Platessa jenynsii, Bleeker, 1855, Verb. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, ii, Viss. Van Diemen. p. 15, sp. 265. 

 Pseudorhombus muHimaculatus, GUnther, 1862, Cat. Fish., iv, p. 427 ; Steindachner, 1867, SitzBer. 



Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ivi (i), p. 318 ; Macleay, 1882, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vi, p. 125 ; Ogiiby, 



1S93, Edible Fish. Crust. N.S.Wales, p. 157, pl. xx.wiii ; McCuIloch, 1914, Biol. Res. 



" Endeavour ", ii, p. 131, pl. xxiv ; Norman, 1926, Biol. Res. " Endeavour", v, p. 237; 



McCuUoch, 1929, Mem. Aust. Mus., v, p. 278. 

 Pseudorhombus multiradiatus, Macleay, 18S3, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vii, p. 13. 



