BOTH I N^ 



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Type. — British Museum (Nat. Hist.). Reg. No. 1908.3.23.127. 



Distribution. — South Africa (?); Seychelles Group ; south-eastern India ; Burma. 



Specimens Ex.\mined : 



3 {44-95 mm.). Holotype (95 mm.) .^mirantes, 30 fms. Gardiner. 



Holotype (95 m: 

 and paratypes. 



(38 mm.). Type of Platophrys 

 circularis 



(88 ,, ). 



-85 



Also one from Arakan Coast, Burma, and the type of Pseltylis ocellala (Ind. 

 Mus.). 



Examination of a series of examples leaves no doubt that B. circularis [=Psettylis 

 ocellala) is the young of B. ovalis, and it is more than likely that this species may 

 itself prove to be the same as B. myriaster. 



14. BOTHUS ASSIMILIS (Giinther). 



Rhomboidichthys assimilis, Giinther, 1862, Cat. Fish., iv, p. 437. 



Platophrys assimilis, Oshima, 1927, Japan. J. Zool. Tokyo, Trans. Abstr., i (5), p. 178. 



Bothus assimilis, Wu, 1932, Th4s. Facult. Sci. Univ. Paris, A. 244 (2f)8), p. 95. 



Depth of body i J in the length, length of head 3|. Profile of head convex in front 

 of upper eye, concave above and in front of lower eye. Diameter of eye 4 in length of 

 head, about ^ the interorbital width : anterior edge of upper eye abo\e posterior 

 edge of lower. .\ blunt spine on the snout. Maxillary extending to below anterior 

 edge of eye, length nearly 4 in that of head. 6 or 7 short gdl-rakers on lower part of 

 anterior arch. Scales all cycloid ; about 80 in lateral line. Dorsal 87. Anal 65. 

 Pectoral of ocular side with 11 rays, upper rays not prolonged (?). Caudal obtusely 

 pointed. Brownish ; several series of dark spots on anterior part of interorbital 

 space ; median fins dusky. 



