BY J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 37 



lower ; width of interorbital region 1-30 in the diameter 

 of the eye. Scales on the right side ctenoid, on the left 

 side cycloid ; no enlarged nuchal scales ; many of the 

 scales on the colored side with an elongate cutaneous ap- 

 pendage, some of which may be longer than the eye ; lips 

 and entire lower surface of head profusely papillose. 



Last rays of the dorsal and anal fins nearly reaching 

 to the end of the caudal ; caudal fin broadly rounded ; 

 left pectoral 1*60 in the right ; ventrals asymmetrical, 

 the left much the smaller, separate- from the anal. 



Uniform blackish, ; dorsal, caudal, and anal fins nar- 

 rowly, right ventral broadly tipped with yellow ; right 

 pectoral black. 



Total length 360 miUim. 



Malay Archipelago, from Singapore eastward to 

 North Australia. 



Described from a specimen measuring 230 millimeters, 

 and taken at Croker Island, Northern Territory, by Mr. 

 John Colclough, who presented it to the A.F.A.Q. Museum ; 

 Oat. No. 1029. The body of this example is much muti- 

 lated as if by repeated stabs of a knife or spear. 



Synaptura aspilos Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., 



iii, 1 852, p. 74 : Singapore — id., Verb. Batav. 



Gen., xxiv, 1852, Pleuron., p. 29 — Giinther, 



B. M. Catal. Fish., iv, 1862. p. 482. 

 Synaptura marmorata Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., 



v., 1853, p. 90 : Sol or— Giinther, ibid. 

 Synaptura heterolepis Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. 



Neerl., i, 1856, Amboina, p. 65— Giinther, ibid. 

 Brachirus ^.e^eroZepis Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vi, 18, p. 20, 



pi. ccxxxvi, fig. 2 (juv.) and ccxxxviii (ad'^ : Timor ; 



Batch] an ; Ceram. 

 Note. — Synaptura cinerea (De Vis) is identical with 

 S. nigra Macleay. This species rarely shows a few small 

 cutaneous appendages on the back. 



Cynoglossus siNDENSis Day. 



Cynoglossus sindensis Day, Fish, India, 1877, p. 434: 

 ^m^Z.— Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fish., xxvii, 

 1907, p. 281 : Manila. 



D. 108 ; A. 84 ; 0. 12 ; V. 4 ; Sc. 102 ; L. tr. 7-9- 

 24 = 50. Depth of body 3-75 ; length of head 4-65 in 



