FLATFISHES (HETEROSOMATA) 



Scales mostly cycloid on ocular side, sometimes ctenoid at edges of 



body ; interorbital u-idth (in adidts) much greater than eye, 

 I. Scales ctenoid at edges of body on ocular side ; 95 to 104 scales in 

 lateral line ; eye 3 to 3 J in head 



a. Maxillan,- 3J to 3J in head ; depth i J to iJ. head 3J to nearly 4 



in length . . . . . . . . .11. blcekeri. 



b. Maxillary 3i to 3* in head. 



<t. Depth 1} to if, head 4^ to 4J m length . . 12, myrtaster. 



li. Depth 15, head 3^ to 3} in length .... 13. uvalis- 



1. Scales all cycloid on ocular side, 80 in lateral line ; eye 4 in head 



The following species from Japan has been described in Japanese, but the diagnosi-^ 

 is very brief and it is impossible to place it with certainty : 



Plalophrys kie'iists, Tanaka, iniS. Debuts, Zasshi ('Zool. Mag '), xxx, p. 225. 



I, BOTHUS OCEI.LATUS (Agassiz). 



Khombus ocMulus, .\sas5iz, 1S31. m Spix, I'lsc. Hr.Kil. p. 85, pi. xlvi. 



Platophryi ucdialus, Swainson, 1.S39, N.H. Tishoi. L-tc, ii, p. 302 ; Jordan and Goss, 1889, Rep. U.S. 

 Com. Fi5h., XIV. (i8S6), p. 266 ; Lonnbcrs. 189.1, Overs. \'et.-Akad. Forh., hi, p. 661 ; Jordan 

 and Evcrmann, 189S, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlvii (3), p. 2663, pi. ccclxxxii, fig. 939 ; Evermann 

 and .Marsh, 1902, Bull. U.S. Com. Fish., xx, (iqoo), p. 321, fig. 105 ; Nichols and Breder, 1927, 

 Zoologica, ix, p. 182, fig. ; Meek and Hildebrand, 1928, Field Mus. Pub. Chicago, Zool. Ser.. xv, 

 No. 249, p. 979. 



Rhombus balimiius, Castelnau, 1855, Anim. Xouv. Rares Amer. Sud., ii, p. 78, pi. xli, fig. i. 



Rhumbuiiiichthys ocellaliis, Giinther, 1S62, Cat. Fish., iv, p. 433 ; Poey, 1868, Repert. Fis.-.\'at. Cuba, 

 ii, p. 4uS : Metzelaar, 1919, Trop. .Atlant. \'issch., p. 129, fig. 36. 



Khomboidichthys sptnosus, Poey, 1868, lotn. cit.. p. 409 ; Poey, 1875, Anal. See. Espah. Hist. Xat.. 



Plalophrys nebulans, Jordan and Gilbert, 1885, Proc. U.S. Xat. Mus., vii, (1884), pp. 31, 1 



Goode and Bean, 1895, Ocean. Ichth., p. 441. 

 Plalophrys spinosus, Jordan and Goss, 1889, Rep. U.S. Com. Fish., xiv, (1886), p. 266 ; Jordan 



Evermann, 1S98, Bull. U.S. Xat. Mus., xlvii (3), p. 2662. 

 ? Bolhus allanficus, Kvle, 1913, Rep. Danish Ocean. Fxped. 1908-1910, ii, A. i, p. 105. 

 Bolhus ocdialus, Reg.in, 1911., Rep. Bnt. .infarct. (■'Terra Xova") Exped,, 191... Zoot, i, 4, p. 



43 ; 



