2.(0 l'[,.\IFISHI-:S (HKTICROSOMATA) 



TvpK. — British .Museum (Nat Hist ). Ri'S. No. ;74<;]. 

 DiSTRinuTioN. — China ; Formos.i. 

 Spkcimf.n Ex.amined ; 



1 (ISO mm.). Hololype. 



BOTH US 

 Pscttylts pdluada. .Aleocli. iS.io. .Ann, .\I jg. N.it. Hr 



Pearl Oyster I-"ish., Suppl. Kop., x\, p. ::o7 ; 



footnote. 

 liollnis ,<p., Xorman, 1937, Rec. Ind. Mus., xxix, p. 34. 



The descriptions quoted above refer to post-larval specimens, probably belonging 

 to this genus, which cannot be specifically identified. The following post-larva; are 

 also indeterminable ; 



1 (40 mm.). Dar-es-Salaani. Smart. 



I (21 ,. ). Abvssinia. Dav. 



; (35, 37 mm.). .Madras coast, ;n fms. Ind. Mus. 



I (3J mm.). Ganjam coast. 



I {40 ,, ). Ceylon. Colombo .Mus. 



1(41 ,. ). Paik Bay, Cevlon. Liverpool Univ. 



1(3:: ,, ). Nankauri Harbour, Xicobar Is., Ind. Mus. 



13-27 fms. ("Investigator"). 



Cenus 28. P.\R.\P,OTHUS. 



Farabothus, N'orman, 1931, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (10) viii, p. 60a [Arnoglossus polylepis, Alcock]. 



Close to Arnnglossus and Bolhus. Body ovate or rather elongate. Eyes on the 

 left side, separated by a flat or concave space, which is narrow or of moderate width 

 (a bony ridge in the young), and somewhat broader in the male ; lower eye only u 

 little in advance of upper. Male without rostral or orbital spines. Olfactory lamince 

 few in number, radiating from a very short central rachis.^ Mouth of moderate size, 

 the length of the maxillary 2\ to 3 in that of head ; jaws and dentition about ecjually 

 developed on both sides ; teeth small, pointed, more or less enlarged and wider apart 

 anteriorly, uniserial in both jaws ; vomer toothless. Upper angle of gill-opening 

 close to lateral line ; the membrane joining the operculum to the pectoral arch partly 

 scaled : gill-rakers of moderate length or rather short. Dorsal fin commencing above 

 nostrils of blind side and well in front of eye ; all the rays simple, scaled (at lea.st on 

 ocular side). Tip of first interhaemal spine not projecting in front of anal fin. Pectoral 

 fins unequal, that of ocular side larger ; none of the rays prolongefi. Scales small, 

 ctenoid (or cycloid) on ocular side, cycloid on blind side. I^ateral line developed only 

 on ocular side, with a distinct curve above the pectoral fin. 



Four or five species from the Indo-Pacific. 



Sv.NOPSIS OF THE SPECIES. 



1 Depth 2 to 2 3 in length ; scales ctenoid on ocular side. 



.\ Head 3! to 3 J m length ; donsal 83, anal 63-60 . . . i. polylepis. 



\: Head 3I to 4 in length ; dorsal 106-121, anal 86-qii. 



1. Dorsal iofr-113, anal 86-94; depth about 2^ in length; eye 3, 



maxillary 2| in head . . . . . .2. chlorospilus. 



2. Dorsal 115, anal <i2 ; depth 2! in length; eye 4J, m.ixillary 2^ in 



head ......... 3. violaceus. 



3 Dorsal 114-121. anal 03-911 ; depth 2? in length ; eye 32, maxillary 



2f m head ........ 4. coayctaliis. 



1 1 Depth about 3, head 4 m length ; scales cycloid on ocular side ; dorsal 112, 



.inal M2 ........ . '5. inalhensis]. 



' In /'. chU.iuspdui. X..t ex.niiin.M m ulhrr specie^. 



