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FLATFISHES (HETEROSOMATA) 



of ocular side ; about loo scales in lateral line.' Dorsal 75 (77). Anal 63 (65). 

 Pectoral with 4 rays, nearly as long as head. Caudal with 16 rays, rounded or obtusely 

 pointed. Coralline red, mottled and spotted with blackish, pearly grey and pinkish 

 white ; a pair of round black spots with small orange centres situated at upper and 

 lower edges of hinder ]>,irt of body ; lins mottled and spotted like the body. Init in 

 tiner pattern. 



Type. — United States National Museum No 51396. 

 Distribution. — Hawaiian Islands, 43 to 73 fathoms. 

 Specimen Examined : 



A paratype (83 mm.) .U.S. Nat. Mus. No, 51676]. 

 The holotype is no mm in total length. 



;A.MARISCI;S SIWIERI, \Vel)cr and Beaufort 



■l.iT anil Be-iufiirt, lyro, Fish. Indo-Austr.il. Arrl,., v, p. 



' Gilbert describes the integument of the ocular side as " thickly beset with minute cup-shaped 

 orRans, possibly glandular in fvmction ". 



