930 MR. E. L. PHILIJl'S ON THE [DeC. 1, 



as long as the eye. The greatest depth of the hody 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 tlie blind 

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

 in the mandible. Gi/l-ralers remo\ed. Fins, dorsal fin commences 

 above the middle of the upper eye, its 32nd ray as high as anj' ; it 

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

 as the head. A spine 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 the pectoral fin, 1*6 inches in length and 0*7 of an inch high. 

 Colour o{ 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 edjie. 



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 ]joint out to one of the parents of this fish being the Dab 

 {Pleuronectes Itmanda), while the other must be a Flounder or a Plaice. 

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

 vertical fin-rays, and the 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 

 psettdojlesus 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 tlie Antelopes of Somali-Land. 

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



[Received December 1, 1885.] 



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

 jMr. Sclater read an excellent paper containing an account of some tlat 

 skins of Somali Antelopes and otiier Mammals which had been sent 

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

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

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

 of Antelopes, I think it nj.ay interest the members of the Society if I 

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

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



We left Berberch on the 22nd of December, 1884, and travelled 



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



