396 



FLATFISHES (HETF.ROSOMATA) 





OCllh 



3. NEMATOPS MACKOCHIKUS. Norirum. 

 Xoinum, 103 1. Treubia, .\iii,p. 421, tig. i. 



Depth of body nearly 3 in the length, length of head 4J. Snout much shorter 

 than eye, diameter of which is about 2|^ in length of head ; eyes nearly contiguous, 

 their anterior margins about level ; length of tentacle about } or ^ that of 

 eye. Maxillary extending to below anterior margin of eye, length about 3 in that of 

 head; lower jaw 2 J in head. Teeth in bands. 10 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior 

 arch. Scales ctenoid on ocular side, cycloid on blind side ; 68 in lateral line Dorsal 



63. Anal 55. I'ectoral of ocular side with 7 rays, all more or less branched, length 

 a little greater than that of head. Caudal pointed ; caudal peduncle about twice 

 as deep as long. Brownish ; some small dark spots and streaks on dorsal and anal 

 fins ; a dusky blotch on basal part of caudal ; pectoral duskv, with an indistinct 

 darker blotch distally. 



TvPH. — British Museum (Nat. Hist.) Keg. No. 11)31.7.23.1. 



Distribution. — Bah Strait ; iO() f.ithoms. 



SPECIMKN ExAMINhl) : 



{106 1 



MarUyella, J 

 HondeJ. 



Holo 



■ ■J-5. I'l 



14' 4'.' K.), 



HardenbcrR. 



, p. ;..;, [PnrtUnf^u-lla buolora/a, Vc 



Close to Pcecilopselta, but male with strong rostral spines, and with the teeth 

 on the ocular side of the upper jaw extending on to the outer surface of the jaw ; 

 anterior rays of dorsal and of pelvic of ocular side more or less prolonged in both 

 sexes, very long in the male. 



A single species from Natal. 



I. MAKLEYELLA BICOLORAT.V (Von Bondc). 



liiul. Surv. .S. ."^fr., (nil). Spec. Rep. 



X.\l, p. 3ql). 

 ad. .Vat. Sci. I'hiiad., Iwvii, p. joj. 



J'iecUopsflla hiciilurata, Von IJonde, irjjj. Rep. Fish. .A 



p. 14, pi. V, tig. 2 ; liarnard, 1925, Ann. S. Afr. M 



I'lrcilopselta IMarieyclla) hicnl„rata. FomUt. 1.12C.. Proc. 



MnrUvMa Im.Anrala. Xorliian. i.,5i, Treul.i.i, xiii, p. 4 



