484 PLErEONECTIDJE. 



b. Nasal tube bifid. 

 11. Synaptura orientalis. 



? Pleuronectes orientalis, Jil. Schn. p. 157. 



Euryglossa orientalis, Kaup in Wiegm. Arch, 1858, p. 99. 



D. 66. A. 48. C. 19. P. 9. 



Nasal openings on two branches of a bifid tube. The height of 

 the body is contained once and six-sevenths in the total length (with 

 the caudal), the length of the head five times and an eighth. Inter- 

 orbital space concave, as wide as the diameter of the lower eye- 

 About eighty scales in a transverse series. (Kaup.) 



East Indies. 



2. The left pectoral fin is rudimentary. 

 12. Synaptura zebra. 



Pleuronectes zebra, ^/. Aiisl.FUche, iii. p. 27. tab. 187 (bad) ; Bl.Schn. 



p. 151 ; Lac^p. iv. p. 597; Shmc, Zool. iv. p. .305. pi. 44. 

 Solea zebra, Cuv. Regne Anitn. ; Bleek. Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxiv. 



Pleuron. p. 16. 



zebrina, Schleg. Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 186. pi. 95. fig. 1. 



ommatura, Richards. Ichth. Chin. p. 279. 



Synaptura zebra, Cant. Catal. Mai. Fish. p. 224. 

 Pleuronectes fasciatus, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 91. 



D. 77-89. A. 66-79. C. 13-15. L. lat. 126-128. Vert. 8/41. 



The upper eye is slightly in advance of the lower. The height of 

 the body is one-third, or more than one-third, of the total length 

 (with the caudal), the length of the head one-seventh. Jaws equal 

 in length anteriorly ; nasal tube very short. The upper part of the 

 right pectoral is prolonged, equal in length to its distance from the 

 front margin of the eye. The gill-membrane on the left side is 

 dilated into a flap, the flap being annexed to the pectoral, which is 

 very short, but rather broad. Reddish-olive, with twelve pairs of 

 brown bands : the first across the snout, the second behind the eyes, 

 the third across the gill-opening ; the bands of the posterior pairs 

 sometimes confluent into simple bands. Caudal brownish-black, with 

 some irregular roundish white spots. 



Indian and Chinese Seas. 



a-c. Fine specimens. Amoy. 



<^^> /> g, K h ^- Adult, half-grown, and young. China. 



I. Young. East Indies. From the Collection of the East India 



Company. 

 m-n. Half-gro^^Ti : skins. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 o-p. Adult : bad state. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 

 q. Adult : skeleton. Amoy. 



The skeleton does not differ essentially from that of Solea. The 

 opercles are less dilated. The haemal spines of the four posterior 

 abdominal vertebrae are rather long. 



