142 MEMOIBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



PARDACfflRUS PAVONINUS (Lac6pede). 

 (Plate XVI.) 



Addrus pavoninus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 1902, pp. 658, 661 ; Cantor, Catal. Malay. 

 Fii-h. 1850, p. 225 ; Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., i, 1851, p. 402 ; id., ibid., iii, 1852, 

 pp. 238, 446; id., Verh. Batav. Gen., xxiv, 1852, Pleuronect., p. 18; id., Nat. Tijds. 

 Nederl. Ind., xii, 1857, p. 217 ; Kaup, Arch. f. Naturg., xxiv, 1858, i, p. 102 ; Bleeker, 

 Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl., viii, 1850, Sumatra, p. 62 ; id., ibid., Celebes, p. 14 ; id., 

 Versl. Akad. Amsterdam, xii, 1861. pp. 41, 69 ; id., ibid., xiv, 1862, p. 103 ; id., Nederl. 

 Tijds. Dierk., ii, 1865, p. 184 ; id., Atlas Ichth., vi, 1870, p. 24, pi. ecxli, fig. 1 ; id., 

 Versl. Akad. Amsterdam (2) vii, 1873, p. 37; Daj% Fish. India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 427, 

 pi. xciii, fig. 2 ; Bleeker, Verh. Akad. Amsterdam, xviii, 1879, China, p. 3 ; Stead, Fish. 

 Austr., 1906, pp. 183, 264. 



Pleuronectes pavoninus Shaw, Gen. Zool., iv, 1804, p. 310. 



Achiriis maculatus (Kuhl & van Hasselt) Bleeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Ind., ii, 1845, 

 p. 509 ; Verh. Batav. Gen., xxii, 1849, Madura, p. 6 ; id., ibid., xxiii, 1850, Mid-en 



* Oost-Java, p. 12. 



Pardachirus pavoninus Giinther, Brit. M\is. Catal. Fish., iv, 1862, p. 479 ; Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1870, p. 699 ; Alleyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, i, 1877, p. 247 ; 

 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vi, 1881, p. 136 ; Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 1893, 

 p. 297 : Steindachner, Abh. Ssnck. Ges., xxv, ii, 1901, p. 443; Jordan & Scale, Bull. U.S. 

 Bur. Fisher., xxv, 1906, p. 413 ; Evermann & Scale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., xxvi, 1907 ; 

 Giinther, Fisch. d. Sudsee, 1909, p. 346; Jordan & Richardson, Check-List Fish. 

 Phihpp. Archip., 1910, p. 54 ; Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xhi, 1912, p. 517 ; Weber, 

 Fisch. Siboga Exped., 1913, p. 439. 



? Pardachirus marmoratus Kner, Reise Novara, pt. 3, 1867, p. 290. Not of Lacepede. 



Solea (Pardachirus) pavonina Steindachner, Sitz. Akad. AVien, Ix, 1870, p. 570. 



PEACOCK SOLE. 



Type locality: — East Indies (^-1. pavoninus) . 



Java {A. maculatus) . 



Body ovate, its depth. 2-2 in its length, that of the caudal peduncle 243 

 in the body-depth. Head somewhat deeper than long, its length 4-83 in that 

 of the body. Snout short, its tip somewhat below the level of the lower eye, 

 its length "from that eye 2-85 in that of the head. Cleft of mouth extending 

 to below the anterior third of the lower eye. Eyes equal, the diameter 5-9 in 

 the length of the head. Width of gill-opening 1-5 in the same. 



Scales of the upper side terminating in an ovate feebly spinulose patch, 

 which becomes gradually Aveaker posteriorly, the margins smooth, except above 

 the eyes where they bear 3 or 4 longer setfe ; lower surface smooth, in 84 to 89 

 transverse series above the lateral line. Basal third of vertical fins scaly, the 

 basiradial pore opening on the inner edge of the naked portion. Lateral line 

 straight, continued to the extremity of the caudal tin, and on the head to the 

 preopercular region where it divides, one branch passing upwards the other 

 dowuAvards. 



Dorsal fin with 65 to 71, anal with 50 to 54 rays, all of which, except a 

 few short ones in front and behind, are divided, the longest rays being about 

 the commencement of the last third of the fin. Caudal fin broadly rounded, 

 with 18 rays, its length 5-87 in that of the head. Each ventral with 5 l)ranched 

 rays.^^ 



" In the specimen described the right ventral ha=i a short additional rav posteriorly, 

 but as other observers give the formula as 5/5, I look upon this as an individual peculiarit5\ 



