930 MR. E. L. PHIIXIl'S ON THE [DeC. I, 



as long as the eye. The greatest dejith of the body is between the 

 lateral line and the base of the anal fin, where it is 3'4 inches. 

 Teeth. Conical, with rounded summits, in two rows on tiie blind 

 side in the upper jaw, and one on the coloured ; smaller and fewer 

 in the mandible. Gill-ralers removed. Fins, dorsal fin commences 

 above the middle of the upper eye, its 32!id ray as high as any ; it 

 and a few beyond are eacli 1'5 of an inch in length and half as long 

 as tlie head. A s])ine before the base of the anal fin ; caudal fin 

 similar to that of the Flounder. Free portion of the tail two thirds 

 as long as high. Scales indistinctly- ctenoid on the coloured side, 

 cycloid on the blind side ; they are extended over the cbeeks and on 

 the ridge between the eyes ; there is also a row of them along each 

 dorsal and anal ray. No osseous tubercles along the bases of dorsal 

 or anal rays. Lateral-line with a strong curve anteriorly over the 

 base of tiie pectoral fin, 1*G inches in length and O'/of aninch high. 

 Colour of a dark brown without spots, and white on the lower surface ; 

 the first portion of the dorsal fin whitisli, also a narrow white edging 

 along its first half, caudal also with a narrow white outer edtce. 



The number of rays, the ctenoid scales which are continued along 

 the vertical rays, and the strong curve at the commencement of the 

 lateral line jioint out to one of the parents of this fish being the Dab 

 {Pleuronectes liinanda), wliile the other must be a Flounder or a Plaice. 

 The size of the fisli, the absence of ossicles along the bases of the 

 vertical fin-rays, and tlie number composing the anal fin at first led 

 me to suppose the other parent might be a Plaice ; but the dentition 

 and the square-cut tail, as well as absence of spots, induces me to 

 conclude that it must have been a Flounder. It came from Brixham. 



While alluding to this specimen, I would suggest that Pleuronectes 

 pseiidojlesus of Gottsche, Wiegm. Arch. 1835, pt. ii. p. 143, may 

 probably be a hybrid Flounder. 



The drawing (PI. LXII.) represents the specimen at five elevenths 

 of the natural size. 



6. Notes on the Antelopes of Somali-Laucl. 

 By E. LoRT Phillips, F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived December 1, 1885.] 



At the meeting of this Society on the 18th of November last year' 

 Mr. Sclater read an excellent paper containing an account of some Hat 

 skins of Somali Antelopes and other Mammals which had been sent 

 to him by Mr. C. Hagenbeck, the well-known dealer of Hamburg. 

 Having recently visited Somali-land, along witli my friends Messrs. 

 James, Aylmer, and Thrupp, and obtained specimens of several species 

 of Antelopes, I think it njay interest the members of the Society if I 

 exhibit tlie heads of the specimens that we have procured, and read 

 a few notes on the country, of which very little seems to be known. 



\A'e left Berbereh on the 22nd of December, 1884, and travelled 



' SeeP.Z.S. 1884, p. 538. 



