210 FLATFISHKS (METFROSOMAIA) 



blackish spots ami blotclu's : caudal often with a broad blackish band .icross its 

 hinder part and a similar but less distinct band at its base. 



TvpK. — Indian Museum. No. 12184. 



DisTKiuvTuiN.— South-eastern India and Ceylon; Indo-China ; Aru Islands; 

 (.'hina. 



Si'K< IMKN'S EXAMINKO : 



1(2,84 111111.1. Paratypc. Orissa Coast, 7-13 fms. Iiid. Mus. 



"(IiivcsliRalor"). 



1 ((J, 104 mm.). (laiijam Coast, 30-33 fms. 



4 (2 cJ. 7-. 7t) ; 2 9. 00. 7u iiuu ) Off S. coast of Ceylon, 3; fms. 



2 ((J, 57. 08 null.) Gailc, Cevlon. Liverpool Univ. 

 1 (^,112111111). I'ouloCoiidor Is. French Indo-Cliina. Chabanaud. 



Also several from Ceylon, India, Burma and the Nicobar Islands, including the 

 holotype {£] of the species (Ind. Mus,). 



Genus 27. liOTHUS. 



Bnlhui, Katinesqiie, iSlo, Car. n. gen., p. 23 [bolhus nimtitn, Rafinesque) ; Bonaparte, 1833, Icon. 



Faun. Ital., fasc. iv, (24); Bonaparte, 1846, Cat. nietod. Pesci Enrop., p. 45; Kyle, 1013, 



Rep. Danish Ocean. Exped. 1908-1910, ii, A. i, p. 94. 

 SoUa («(!»! Quensel, 1806), Rafinesque, 1810, Ind. itt. Sicil., pp. 14, 52 [Solea rhombuide, Rafinesque). 

 I'lalnphryi, Swainson, 1839. N. H. Fishes, etc., ii, pp. 1H7, 302 [Rhombus ocellatus, Agassiz] ; Jordan 



and Evennann, 1898, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlvii (3), p. 2660. 

 .- I'doria, Cocco. 1S44, in Krohn, Giorii. tlabin. Messina, Ann. iii, v (xxv), p. 21' [Peloria heckeli, 



Cocco]. 

 f Coccolus, [Cocco, 1844, ioOT. cit., p. 21I ; Bonaparle, 1S46. Cat. uietod. Pesci F;urop., p. 47 [Coccolus 



annectens, (Corco) Bonaparte]. 

 Rlwmboidichthys. Blecker, 1856, Act. Sor. Sci. Indo-Neerl,. 1, Manado etc., p. 67 [Rhnmbmduluhys 



my r taster, Bleeker]. 

 :■ Citharuhthvs (tion Bleeker, 1S62), Dav, 1S77, Fish. Indi.i. p. 422. 

 Psrityhs, Alcock, i8yo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) vi, p. 436 IFsellylis pdluadii, Alcock] ; Johiistone, 



1904. Ceylon Pearl Oyster Fish., Suppl. Rep., xv, p. 207. 

 .' I'seitdKcUharichthys, Weber, 1913, " Siboga "-Exped., Fische, p. 413 [Cttharichthys aureus, DayJ. 

 Platnliehthys, Xichols, 1921, Bull. Anier. Mus. Nat. Hist., xliv. p. 21 [PlatoHcMhys Charles, Nichols]. 

 Symbouhchthys, Chabanaud. 1927, Bull. Soc. zool. Fr.. In. p. 76 [Plalnphrys macuhfer, Jordan ami 



Body ovate or rather deep, strongly compressed. Kyes on the left side, separated 

 by a flat or concave space of varying width, sometimes broader in the male ; lower 

 eye well in advance of upper. Male generally with spines on the snout and sometimes 

 on the orbital margins. Olfactory laminae rather feebly developed, few in number, 

 slightly radiating or sometimes nearly parallel to one another and to the axis of the 

 body, without central rachis. Mouth of moderate size or rather small, the length 

 of the maxillary 2^ to 4 in that of head ; jaws and dentition about equally developed 

 on both sides or stronger on blind side ; teeth small, pointed, without distinct canines, 

 in two or more series in both jaws, at least anteriorly (e.xcept in young) ;- vomer tooth- 

 less. Upper angle of gill-opening a short distance above pectoral tin, the membrane 

 joining the operculum to the pectoral arch scalele.ss ; gill-rakers few in number, short 

 or of moderate length ; lower pharyngeals very narrow, each with an inner row of 

 rather strong pointed teeth, and generally one or two outer rows of smaller teeth. 

 Dorsal fin commencing above or just in advance of nostrils of blind side and well in 

 front of eye ; all the rays simple, scaled (at least on ocular side). Tip of first inter- 

 ha?mal spine not projecting in front of anal fin. Pectoral fins unecpial, that of ocular 

 side larger , all the rays simple ; upper rays sometimes prolonged. Tiji nf pelvic 



' resu- F.ii. inla. 1.S.S5. 



