BOTHIN.?i 



209 



Depth of body about twice in the length, length of head 4^. A rather blunt 

 rostral spine. Diameter of eye 3^ in length of head, about equal to interorbital 

 width. Maxillary extending to below anterior part of eye, length about 3 in that 

 of head. 6 or 7 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. About 47 scales in lateral 

 line. Dorsal 90. Anal 70. Pectoral of ocular side with 11 rays, upper ray prolonged, 

 longer than head. Brownish, with indistinct darker markings. 



{^, 106 1 



Nagasaki, Japa 



Tokyo Imp. Uni 



6. ENGYPROSOPON GRANDISQUAMA (Temminck and Schlegel). 



Rhombus grand isqnama, Temminck and Schlegel, 1S46, Faun. Japon. ( Pisces), p. 183, pi. xcii, figs. 3, 4. 

 Rhombus pacilurus, Bleeker, 1852, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind.,iii,p. 293 ; Bleeker, 1852, Verh. Batav. 



Gen., xxiv, Pleuron., p. 29. 

 Rhomboidichthys grandisqitama (part), Giintlier, 1S62, Cat. Fish., iv, p. 437. 



Cat. 



Pseudorhombtis pcrcilurus, Bleeker, 

 Platophrys (Arnoglossus) pcecilurus, 

 Rhomboidichthys spilurus, Giinther, 

 Rhomboidichthys spiniceps, Macleav 



Fish. N.S. Wales, p. 32. 

 Rhomboidichthys pmcilurus, Regan, 1902, in Gardiner, Faun. Maldive Laccadive Arch., i, p. 277 ; 



Regan, 1905, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, xvi, p. 332. 

 Amoglossus spilurus, Johnstone, 1904, Ceylon Pearl Oyster Fish., Suppl. Rep., xv, p. 211. 

 Sccsops grandisquama, Jordan and Starks, 1904, Bull. U.S. Com. Fish., xxii, (1902), p. 627, pi. viii 



fig. 2 ; Jordan and Starks, 1906, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxxi, p. r68, &g. i ; Fowler and Bean, 



1922, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Ixii (2), p. 67 ; Von Bonde, 1925, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr., xii, 



p. 287 ; Barnard, 1923, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., xxi, p. 387. 

 SccEops pcecilurus, Jordan and Starks, 1905, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mu 



Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., xii, p. 233 ; Weber, 191 3, 



Fowler, 1928, Mem. B.P. Bishop Mus., x, p. 92. 

 Scc£ops spilura, Jordan and Scale, 1906, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., 3 



Mem. B.P. Bishop Mus., x, p. 92. 

 Sca:ops orbicularis, Jordan and Seale, 1907, BulL U.S. Bur. Fish 



Richardson, 1909, Mem. Carnegie Mus., iv, p. 201 ; Oshii 



1865, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk., ii, p. 274. 

 Bleeker, 1866-72. Atl. Ichth., vi, p. 13, Pleuron., pi. v, t 

 1880, Shore Fishes '* Challenger ", pp. 47, 53, pi. xxi tig. 



, 1882, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vi, p. 127 ; Ogilby, i887: 



xxviii, p. 803 ; Rega 

 ' Siboga "-Exped., Fische, 



Trans. Abstr 

 14 



{5).p. 179; Wu 



XV, {1905), p. 412 ; Fowler, 1928, 



, (1906), p. 4S ; Jordan and 

 1927, Japan. J. Zool. Tokyo, 



2, Thes. Facult. Sci. Univ. Paris, A. 244 {268), p. 91 



