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244. Entomacrodus calurus sp. nov. Plate XX, J above, $ below. 



Head 5; depth 6f ; D. XII, 20; A. II. 20 ; P. 14 ; V. 2 ; width of head If 

 in its length ; depth of head li; eye 3^; width of mouth 2i; pectoral 1^; ventral 

 2 ; caudal 1 ; interorbital space 3 in eye. 



Body elongate, compressed, oblong, greatest depth about middle of belly. 



Head elongate, compressed, oblong, and of more or less equal depth. Upper 

 profile nearly horizontal, and surmounted by a thin rather high fleshy flap or crest. 

 Snout nearl}^ vertical, broad, convex, and slightly produced beyond mouth. Eye 

 far forward, nearly impinging on upper anterior profile. Space between its lower 

 margin and corner of mouth a trifle less than vertical diameter. Mouth low, 

 inferior, broad, its corner reaching below posterior rim of orbit. Teeth in a narrow 

 comb-like band in eacli jaw. Mandible with a strong canine on each ramus. Lips 

 rather thin, but fleshy. Nostrils well separated, and lower with three or four short 

 fleshj' filaments. A thin fleshy tentacle above eye equal to three-fourths its diam- 

 eter. Interorbital space narrow, slightly concave. 



Gill-opening rather large, membrane broad, and free across rather broad isth- 

 mus. Rakers short, weak, not numerous, and much shorter than filaments. 

 Pseudobranchia; well developed. 



Spinous dorsal shorter than soft dorsal, also lower, spines of more or less 

 uniform height, flexible, and well separated from soft fin by a deep notch. Soft 

 dorsal joined to caudal posteriorly by a membrane. Anal jjreceded by two small 

 flexible spines hardly distinguishable from rays, and margin of fin distinctly incised 

 between rays. Last anal ray free from caudal peduncle posteriorly. Caudal 

 elongate, rounded. Pectoral broad, rays just below middle longest. Ventral 

 inserted below posterior portion of crest on head. 



Color in arrack uniform pale brown. Side with about eight pairs of indistinct 

 dusky vertical cross-bars, and on each several short pale blue dark-edged horizontal 

 bars formed in lateral series. Spinous dorsal gray, blackish on outer portion and 

 edge. Soft dorsal gray with about six dusky inclined lines extending across. Anal 

 gray, darker on outer portion and with a blackish edge adjoining a submarginal 

 narrow blue line or band. Caudal with lower portion of fin dusky, greater part of 

 fin gray above and crossed with about five narrow brown cross-bars, also finely 

 marbled. Pectoral and ventral pale brownish. 



Length 3 inches. 



Type d No. 27,807, A. N. S. P. Padang. 



Also five others, 9 , cotypes. The females have no crests and lack the sub- 

 marginal anal line. 



(KaA.6s, beautiful ; ovpa, tail.) 



PLEURONECTID^. 



245. PsETTODES ERUMEi (Schneider). 



246. Paralichthys polvspilus (Bleeker). 



247. Paralichthys triocellatus (Schneider). 



