Also specimens from Madras, Maldives and Andaman Islands (Ind. Mus.) ; Red 

 Sea, Java, Amboina and East Indies (Leiden Mus.) ; and Red Sea, Hawaiian and 

 Caroline Islands (Mus. Comp. Zool). 



The type of Citharichthys aureus. Day (= Pseudocitharichthys , Weber), examined 

 by me, appears to be a post-larval Bothus, and probably belongs to this species. 



II. BOTHUS BLEEKERI, Steindachner. 



Rhomboiiichtkys myriaster (non Temminck and Schlegel), Bleeker, 1856, .\ct. Soc. Sci. Indo-Xeerl. 



i, Menado etc., p. 67. 

 Bothus bleekeri, Steindachner, 1861, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xi, p. 178. 

 Rhomboidichthys myriaster, Giinther, 1862, Cat. Fish., iv, p. 436. 

 Platophrys [Piatophrys) myriaster, Bleeker, 1866-72, Atl. Ichth., vi, p. 10 



pi. xi, fig. I. 

 Psettvlis Qcellata, Johnstone, 1904, Ceylon Pearl Ovster Fish., Suppl. Rep 



pi. ii. 

 ? Platophrys {myriaster), Weber, rgi3, " Siboga "-Exped., Fische, p. 428. 

 Platophrys thompsoni. Fowler, 1923, Occ. Papers B. P. Bishop ^Ius., viii 



Mem. B. P. Bishop Mus., x., p. 91, pi. iv, fig. c. 

 Bothus ovalis (part), Norman, 1927, Rec. Ind. Mus., xxix, p. 32. 

 Bothus {Platophrys) myriaster, Weber and Beaufort, 1929, Fish. Indo-.\ustral. .\rch., v, p. 120. 



Depth of body ij to i* in the length, length of head 3^ to nearly 4. Profile of 

 head convex in front of upper eye, conca\e above and just in front of lower eye. 

 Diameter of eye 3i to 3J in length of head ; interorbital width ij to nearly ij times 

 (a little less in young) diameter of eye : anterior edge of upper eye above middle of 

 lower. Male with a strong spine on the snout, and another at symphysis of lower 

 jaw ; one or two spines anteriorly on orbital margins. Maxillary extending to below 

 anterior margin of eye, length 3 J to 3J in that of head. Teeth more strongly developed 



Pleuron., pi. ix, fig. 4, 

 XV, p. 207, pi. i, fig. 3, 



p. 3S8 ; Fowler, 1928, 



