482 PLEURONECTIDiE. 



4. Synaptura marmorata. 

 Synaptura marmorata, Blceh. Solor, p. 90. 



D. 64. A. 50. C. 14. P. 7-8. L. lat. 100. 



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

 the total length (with the caudal), the length of the head five times. 

 The right pectoral is longer than the left, and one-fourth of the length 

 of the head. Greyish, marbled with bluish ; margins of the fins 

 light-coloured. {Bl.) 



Solor. 



5. Synaptura cinerascens. 



D. 68. A. 51. C. 16. P. 9. L. lat. 95. 



The height of the body is contained twice and a third in the total 

 length (with the caudal), the length of the head five times and two- 

 thirds. Scales ciliated on both sides of the body, those on the neck 

 not larger than those on the body ; jaws subequal in length anteriorly. 

 The width of the interorbital space is rather less than the diameter 

 of the eye. The pectoral of the right side is longer than that of the 

 left, its length being contained twice and two-thirds in that of the 

 head ; the last dorsal and anal ray extends to the middle of the 

 length of the caudal. Nasal tube short. Grey, with several very 

 indistinct vertical blackish Unes crossing the lateral Une. 



Ceylon. 



a. Fine specimen, 5^ inches long. Ceylon. Purchased of Mr. Cximing. 



6. Synaptura heterolepis. 



Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl. i. Amhoina, p. 66. 



D. 67. C. 13. A. 50. P. 6. L. lat. 98. 



The height of the body is two-fifths of the total length (with the 

 caudal), the length of the head two -elevenths. Scales on the neck 

 not larger than those on the body; scales on the blind side not 

 ciliated, emarginate. The upper jaw overlapping the lower. The 

 width of the interorbital space is rather more than the diameter of 

 the eye. The length of the right pectoral is one-third of that of the 

 head. Some of the scales with cutaneous filaments. Brown, marbled 

 with blackish and irregularly spotted with whitish. Pectoral black. 



Amboyna. 



a. Fine specimen. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. 

 h. Adult. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



7. Synaptura aspilos. 



Synaptura aspilos, Bleeh. Natuurk. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind. iii. p. 74, and 

 Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxiv. Pleuron. p. 29. 



D. 70. A. 55. C. 12. P. 6. L. lat. 115. 

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

 the total length (with the caudal), the length of the head five times 

 and a third. Scales on the neck not larger than those on the body. 



