492 PLEURONECTID^i:. 



2. Plagnsia bilineata. 



? Pleuronectes bilineatus, Bl. tab. 188 ; Bl. Schn. p. 158. 

 ? Russell, pi. 74. 



? Plagiisiii bilineata, Cmi'. Regne Anim. (not B^.). 

 Plagusia bilineata, Cant. Catal. p. 227. 



blochii, Bleek. Verhand.Batav. GenootscTi.xxiv. Pleuron. p. 21, or 



Nat. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind. i. p. 411. 



D. 96-97. A. 70-73. C. 8. L. lat. 85. 



The height of the body is rather more than the length of the head, 

 and one-fourth of the total. Two lateral lines on the left side, sepa- 

 rated by twtjlve or thirteen longitudinal series of scales at the point 

 of their greatest distance. The length of the snout is contained 

 twice and a third in that of the head. The rostral hook extends to 

 the vertical from the posterior margin of the eye. Reddish-brown. 



Malayan Peninsula. East Indian Archipelago. 



a. Seven inches long: skin. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



— Type of his PL bilineata. 

 h. Adult. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection, as PI. bilineata. 



3. Plagusia japonica. 



Schleg. Fawn. Japan. Poiss. p. 187. pi. 95. fig. 2 ; Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Indo- 

 Nederl. iii. Japan, iv. p. 26. 



D. 110. A. 88. C. 8. V. 4. L. lat. 100. 



The height of the body is contained four times and a sixth in the 

 total length, the length of the head four times and five-sixths. Three 

 lateral lines on the left side. The angle of tihe mouth is much nearer 

 to the gill-opening than to the extremity of the snout. The rostral 

 hook terminates below the eye. Brownish-green, with small scattered 

 black spots ; fins edged with yellow. 



.Japan. 



34. CYNOGLOSSUS*. 



Plagusia, pt., Cuv. R^gne Anim. 

 Cynoglossus et Achirus, Ham. Buck. 



Cantoria, Arelia, Trulla, et Icania, Kaup in Wiegm. Arch. 1858, p. 106, 



etc. 



Eyes on the left side ; pectorals none; vertical fins confluent. Scales 



ctenoid ; lateral line on the left side double or triple ; upper part of 



the snout produced backwards into a hook ; mouth unsymmetrical, 



* 1. Jerree potoo, Rtiss. i. p. 57. tab. 73.^Plagusia potous, Cuv. Eigne Anim. 

 — Coromandel. 



2. Plagusia macrorhynchus, Bleek. Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxiv. Pleur. 



p. 22, or Nat. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind. i. p. 413. — Arelia macrorhynchus, 

 Bkek. Enum. p. 185. — Java. 



3. Plagiusa auro-limbate, Richards. Ichth. Chin. p. 280. — China. 

 4. nigro-labeculata, i?«<-A«r^«. /. c.— China. 



fi. . grammica, Richards. I. c— The typical specimen is in the Collection 



of the Cambridge Plijlospiihicjil Society. 

 0. - — ilavosquanii.'', l\if^'>nriU 1. . p 281' China, 



