BOTHIDAE 359 



St. WS 219. 3.vi. 28. 47° 06' 00" S, 62° i2'oo"W. Tow-net attached to back of trawl, 116- 

 114 m.: dark sand. 2 specimens, 70-75 mm. 



St. WS 222. 8. vi. 28. 47° 23' 00" S, 65° 00' 00" W. Tow-net attached to back of trawl, 100- 

 106 m.: coarse brown sand and shells. 5 specimens, 37-45 mm. 



Depth of body 2^ to 2| in the length, length of head 4 to 5. Upper profile of head 

 generally a little notched in front of eyes. Snout shorter than eye, diameter of which 

 is 3 to 3I in length of head and more than twice the width of the flat, scaly interorbital 

 space; upper eye a little in advance of lower and close to edge of head. Jaws and 

 dentition about equally developed on both sides; the maxillary extending to below 

 middle of eye or not quite as far, length a little more than 2 in that of head ; lower jaw 

 scarcely projecting, its length if to nearly 2 in head; rather broad bands of small 

 conical teeth in both jaws. Margin of gill-cover fringed; gill-rakers long, slender, 20 to 

 23 on lower part of anterior arch. Scales small, ctenoid on both sides of body ; 67 to 72 

 in lateral line. Dorsal 84-90 ; origin above nostrils of blind side and just in front of 

 upper eye; all the rays simple, not scaled. Anal 61-66; first interhaemal spine not pro- 

 jecting. Pectoral of ocular side with 9 or 10 simple rays, length about ^ that of head; 

 that of blind side shorter. Pelvics with 6 rays; short-based, subequal and nearly 

 symmetrical. Caudal with 15 simple rays, rounded; caudal peduncle short. Brownish 

 or greyish, mottled and spotted with darker, and with small dark dots forming irregular 

 lines running along the body between the series of scales ; all the rays of the fins finely 

 dotted with brown or black. 



Described from several specimens, up to 175 mm. in total length, including the holo- 

 type of the species. 



Hub. Magellan-Falkland Islands region. 



Genus Eucitharus, Gill 



Citharus (non Reinhardt, 1838), Bleeker, 1862, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam, xni, p. 424. 

 Eucitharus, Gill, 1889, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xi, p. 600. 



Eucitharus linguatula (Linnaeus). 



Pleuronectes linguatula, Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, p. 270. 



Citharus linguatula, Giinther, 1862, Cat. Fish, iv, p. 418. 



Eucitharus linguatula. Cams, 1889-93, Pi'odr. Faun. Medit. n, p. 588. 



St. 272. 30. vii. 27. Off Elephant Bay, Angola; from 13" 11' S, 12° 44' 45" E to 13° 09' 45" S, 

 i2°46'E. Large otter trawl, 73-97 m.: green sand and mud. 3 specimens, 200-212 mm. 



St. 274. 4. viii. 27. Off St Paul de Loanda, Angola; from 8° 40' 15" S, 13° 13' 45" E to 

 8° 38' 15" S, 13° 13' 00" E. Large otter trawl, 64-65 m.: grey mud. 4 specimens, 28-80 mm. 



St. 279. 10. viii. 27. Off Cape Lopez, French Congo ; from 8-5 miles N 71° E to 15 miles N 24° E 

 of Cape Lopez Light. Large otter trawl, 58-67 m.: mud and fine sand. 2 specimens, 140-170 mm. 



Depth of body 2 J to 2f in the length, length of head 3 to 3^. Upper profile of head 

 distinctly concave. Snout a little longer than eye, diameter of which is 5 to 5I in length 



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