FISHES OP BORNEO. 287 



The entire body has a more or less finely reticulated appearance. N'o. 

 2501 ; length, 160 millimeters. 



A food-fish of small value. This species has been reported from 

 numerous places in the Philippines. 

 Thysanophrys bobossok (Bleeker). 



Brownish, with darker bands over back; sides of head with four dark 

 vertical stripes about as wide as interspaces ; caudal banded with brownish 

 and white ; spinous dorsal with a large dusky blotch ; second dorsal rays 

 banded with .brown ; anal yellowish-white, some dusky spots on margin ; 

 pectorals and ventrals with brownish markings. Lateral line with small 

 spines anteriorly; preopercular spine 7 in head. Nos. 2504, 2573, 2652, 

 2678, 2704, 2714, and 2772 ; length, 77 to 155 millimeters. 



A very common species but not large enough to be of importance for 

 food. It has not yet been recorded from the Philippines. 

 Thysanophrys scaber (Linnaeus). 



Grayish-brown, with some very indistinct dusky bands over back; 

 ventrals and anals with dusky tips ; spinous dorsal and caudal each with 

 a dusky blotch ; soft dorsal and pectorals barred with brown. Character- 

 ized by the lateral line having spines extending its entire length. Kos. 

 2449, 2641, and 2665; length, 150 to 180 millimeters. 



A common species in Borneo, but not yet reported from the Philippines. 



Our specimens differed from the figure given by Bleeker ^^ in having 

 the lower and posterior half of caudal taken up by a large dull dusky 

 blotch, the brown bars showing only on the upper portion of the fin. 

 It may be difl^erent. 



Family PLEUEONECTIDiE. Flounders. 

 Microbuglossus humilis (Cantor). 



Color dull brown, with numerous fine dusky spots; a row of larger 

 round black spots near bases of fins. Nos. 2563, 2570, 2576, 2697, 2764, 

 and 2766 ; length, 60 to 70 millimeters. 



Not recorded from the Philippines. 



Pseudorhombus Javanicus Hamilton. 



Color dull brown, with slightly darker blotches and spots; two dark 

 spots on lateral line, one of which has scarcely a trace of an angle above 

 the nostrils, the other has it quite distinct. Nos. 2466 and 2471; length, 

 155 to 175 millimeters. 



It is probable that Jordan and Richardson " were wrong in regarding 

 P. polyspilus collected by Doctor Lung in Cavite as belonging to this 

 species. 



'= Atlas Icththy. (?) 9, pi. 419, fig. 5. 

 ^'Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries (1907), 37, 281. 



