FISHES. — MCCULLOCH. 125 



Colour. — Light sandy-coloured or greyish, with or without 

 numerous darker spots on the head, body and fins. Upper 

 pectoral light coloured like the body. 



Length 135-235 mm. 



This species is distinguished from A. rostratm in having ten 

 instead of seven rays in the right ventral, and in the left pectoral 

 being much shorter than the right and having a curiously 

 modified ray. The gill-rakers are also much smaller, and the 

 origin of the lateral line is somewhat differently situated, while 

 the type of colouration also appears to be different. A. guntheri, 

 Hutton and A. nudipinnis, Waite, differ from both A. rostratus 

 and A. tuclori in having no scales on the dorsal and anal fins. 



I am glad to have the opportunity of associating with this 

 interesting new species the name of the Honorable F. G. Tudor, 

 late Minister for Trade and Customs, under whose direction these 

 Reports were originated. Although only five specimens have 

 been preserved, it is probable that the species will be found to 

 be sufficiently abundant to form a valuable addition to the list of 

 edible Australian flounders. 



Locs. — Off the East coast of Flinders Island, Bass Strait. 



Spencer Gulf, South Australia, 20 fathoms. 



Flinders Island, Investigator Group, South Australia, 37 

 fathoms. 



Ammotretis macrolepis, .y, nov. 



(Fig. 9.) 



D. 90; A. 59; P. 8-10; V. dex. 12; V. sin. 5. Depth 

 l^r, head 41 in the length from the upper jaw to the hypural. 

 Eye twice as long as its distance from the tip of the upper jaw, 

 and 3| in the length between that point and the end of the 

 operculum. Upper pectoral longer than the lower, If in the head. 

 Caudal longer than the head. Longest dorsal and anal rays as 

 long as the pectoral. 



All the scales are ctenoid but those of the upper side are more 

 strongly toothed than the lower ones. They extend over the 

 greater part of all the rays except those of the pectoral and the 

 anterior dorsal and ventral ones. Lateral line almost straight, 

 its origin on the same level as the upper margin of the upper eye. 

 There are about sixty-six pores and as many scales along its 

 length to the hypural, and twenty-four above and thirty below 

 it across the widest part of the body. 



