170 I-LAIFISHES (HETEKUSU.MAIA) 



44-4S. I'cctoral of ocular side with 10 rays, length a little more than \ that of head. 

 Caudal pointed or double-truncate ; caudal peduncle about 15 times as deep as long. 

 Yellowish or greyish brown ; a black spot at base of last rays of dorsal fin and a 

 similar spot above end of anal fin ; a cow of round blacl< spots on dorsal and anal 

 fms. 



Typk. — Not traced. 



Distribution. — Mediterranean and adjacent parts of Atlantic ; West .\frica. 



Specimens Examined : 



I (;i3 mm.). 



t, (Mn-I').i mm.). 



I (I 35 inni.), skL'Icto 



I (I7.i ,. ). 



.; (140, I7.imm.). 



•(30,801 



Mediterr.i 

 .Naples. 



Off C. Lopez, Frenrli Congo, v-^7 fms. 

 Off Elephant Bav, Angola, 40-5 ! fms. 

 Off St. Paul lie Lo.inda, Angola, ^'.-^f< fn 



Wolfende 

 Kvle. 



Also 3 from the Mediterranean (Leiden Mus.). 



The type of Pleuroiiectes macrolepidotus was said to have come from Brazil, but 

 there can be no doubt that Bloch had an example of this species and that the locality 

 was incorrect. 



(',enus2i. CITHAROIDES. 



CUhuruiJcs, Hubbs, 

 Pariuillmrus, Regan, 



Ptol-. U. 



iiii.p. 451 ICttharoidcs macrolrpuloltis, Hubb^.] 

 JOT [.in:oslossus macroh-fis, Gilrhnst.) 



Closely related to Eiicitharus, but teeth all small, pointed, in bands in the jaws 

 (at least in adults) ; vomer toothless : anterior end of each mandible flat or with a 

 very shallow emargination ; dorsal fin commencing immediately above posterior 

 nostril of blind side : tip of first interhaemal spine feeble, just projecting m front of 

 anal fin ; tubules of lateral line forked, Y- or T-shaped. 



A single species from South Africa and Japan. 



I. CITHAROIDES MACKOLEPIS (Gilchrist). 

 T-.^RGE-sc.\Li;!i Flounder,] 



.-Ifiios/ossus macrolcpts, Gilchrist, 1005, Mar. Invest. S. .\fi., 111, p. i;, pi. xxxi ; \'on Honde, 1925, 



Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr., xii, p. ::SS. 

 Citharoides macroUpidotus, Hubbs, 1915, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlviii, p. 453, pi. xxv, tig. i. 

 ratiuilharui miurnlepis. Regan, 19^0, Ann. Durban Mns., n, p. 21.1, fig. 2 ; Barnard, iu;5, Ann. S. 



Afi. Mus,, XXI. p, 3S., ; Fowler, I'^i;!., Pror. Acad. Xal. Sci. I'liilad., Ixxvii, (l.);5l. P- 203. 



