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mostly cylindrical, each with a narrow, bluntly pointed, terminal cusp, arranged in a 

 series along each edge, with a number of teeth between these rows. Scales cycloid 

 on both sides of body ; 72 to 83 in lateral line. Blind side of head nearly entirely 

 scaled. Lateral line with a very low curve above the pectoral fin. Dorsal 56-69 ; 

 first two rays split at their tips and partly free, remainder mostly forked or branched 

 distally ; highest rays 2 to 2J in length of head. Anal 40-50. Pectoral of ocular 

 side with 10 to 13 rays (9 to 12 branched), length ij to if in that of head. Anterior 

 ray of pelvic of ocular side inserted below middle of posterior part of lower eye. Caudal 

 with 18 or 19 rays (12 to 15 branched), subtruncate, rounded, or double-truncate ; 

 caudal peduncle about twice as deep as long. Brownish or greyish, with or without 

 large darker blotches ; distal part of pectoral darker ; blind side whitish. 



Type. — British Museum (Nat. Hist.). Reg. No. 48.3.18.47. 



Distribution, — Southern New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia ; Western 

 Australia (?) ; Tasmania ; New Zealand : Auckland Islands ; Campbell Island. 



Specimens E.xamined ; 



The shape of the body and the proportions of the depth and length exhibit 

 considerable variation in this species. It attains to a length of about 15 inches. 



SPECIES INOUIREND^. 



The following names have been given to Flatfishes, but the species are either 

 indeterminable, or the diagnoses appear in works which are not accessible to rae : — 

 Bothus diagrammus, Rafinesque, 1814, ' Precis Soni.', p. 16. 

 Bothus punctatus, Ra&nesque, 1814, torn, cit., p. 17. 



PlcHTonectes minutus, Nardo [ex Chiereghini MS], 1847, 'Sin. mod. spec. Lag. Veneto', p. 121. 

 Pleuronectes nigricans, Schneider, 1801, in Bloch, ' Syst. Ichth.', p. 158. 

 PUuronecUs rhombeus, Schneider, 1801, torn, cit., p. 145. 



Pleuronectes striatopinnatus, Tilesius, 1805, Voigt's 'Mag. Naturk.', ix (5), p. 443 [^- ^•]- 

 Rhombus fitzingcri, Meckel, 1847, ' Ber. Mitth. Fr. Nat. Wien', iii.p. 194 [N. N.]. 

 Rh[ombus] magnus, Minding, 1832, ' Lehrb. Naturg. Fische', p. 90 [teste C. W. Richmond]. 

 Rhombus ramosus, Michahelles, 1831, 'Isis* (Oken), p. 199. 



' The largest is selected as the holotype. 



^ See Norman (1926, * Biol. Res. " Endeavour " ', v, pp. 278, 2S0, for descriptions of these 

 specimens. 



