1600 
Fam. PLEURONECTIDAE. 
Solea cleverleyt, n.sp. 
(Plate XLIV.) 
D: 82... A. 68. «L120; 
Depth of body 3.4, length of head nearly 5 times in length 
(without caudal). Longitudinal diameter of eye nearly 6 times 
in length of head, upper slightly in advance of lower, inter- 
orbital space less than half diameter of eye. Snout truncate, 
shghtly in advance of lower jaw. Mouth extends to below 
centre of lower eye. Lips not fringed, though there are 
numerous short tentacles on the blind side of head. Two 
nostrils close together in front of the lower eye,-the anterior 
tubular. Margins of opercula slightly fringed. 
Dorsal commences over anterior third of upper eye and 
extends to root of caudal fin. Dorsal and anal rays un- 
branched. The right pectoral, which is covered with scales 
to nearly one-half of its length, 1.8 in head; left pectoral - 
slightly less than right. 
Scales ctenoid on both sides. 
The lateral line contains 120 pierced scales. 
Colour (in spirit) : Grey on right side, distal half of pectoral 
almost black ; left side, including pectoral, colourless. 
Locality : Sent by Mr. Cleverley, Resident Magistrate at 
Walfish Bay, along with several other specimens of fish, in- 
cluding a Synaptura microlepis. The species is named after 
its discoverer. 
Readily distinguished from all other South African species 
of Solea by narrow body and shape of snout. 
Synaptura regam, n.sp. 
(Plate XLV.) 
Depth of body 2}—22 times in the total length, length of head 
54 times. Eyes contiguous, the upper in advance of the lower, 
their diameter 43-5 times in the length of the head. Mouth 
extending to below anterior part of eye; nasal tube simple, 
opercular membrane fringed. D. 68-70; A. 56-59; C. 17; 
the posterior of dorsal and anal connected to the basal half of 
