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darker and lighter cross-bands : three black ocelli edged with white 

 along the base of the dorsal, and three others along that of the anal ; 

 the ocelli alternate with smaller round whitish spots. A very indi- 

 stinct brown band across the root of the caudal. 

 North-west coast of Africa. 



a. Three inches long. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 

 — Type of the species. 



6. Solea microcephala. 

 D. 79. A. 65. P. 11. L. lat. 90. 



The height of the body is contained twice and three-quarters in 

 the total length (without caudal), the length of the head nearly six 

 times. Each scale with about thirteen spines on the margin. Jaws 

 equal in length anteriorly ; the nostril on the coloured side is pro- 

 longed into a tube as long as the eye ; the left side of the snout with 

 numerous short papillae. Eyes very close together, the upper slightly 

 in advance of. the lower. Pectoral with broad base, not much shorter 

 than the head ; that on the left side is very short and attached to 

 the gill-membrane by a fold ; ventrals separate, not continuous with 

 the anal. The dorsal and anal fins terminate immediately before the 

 root of the caudal, their posterior rays extending beyond the middle 

 of the caudal. Anterior dorsal rays short ; caudal entirely free, its 

 length being contained eight times and a half in the total. Brown, 

 with eleven or thirteen dark cross-bands, broader than the inter- 

 spaces : the first on the snout, the second immediately behind the 

 eyes, the last across the root of the caudal ; vertical fins black. 



Australia. 



a. Seven and a quarter inches long. From the Haslar Collection. 

 5. Six inches long. New South Wales. Presented by Dr. G. Bennett. 



7. Solea heterorhina. 



Solea heterorhinos, Bleek.Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl. i. Ainhoina, p. 64. 

 Soleichthys heterorhinos, Bleek. Enumer, p. 183. 



D. 88-94. A. 80-82. P. 9-8. L. lat. 110. 



Nasal tube elongate, longer than the eye. The height of the body 

 is contained twice and four- fifths in the total length (without caudal), 

 the length of the head six times to six times and two-fifths. Eyes 

 contiguous, their diameter being one-third or less than one-third of 

 the length of the head. The right pectoral is longer than the left, 

 haK as long as the head. Olive, -'vith irregular blackish cross-bands, 

 about seven on the head, and about sixteen on the body ; most of the 

 latter are geminate, curved, extending on the dorsal and anal fins. 

 Vertical fins with yellow margin. 



Celebes, Amboyna. 



a. Five inches long. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. 



