KFSIIKS — WAl'I'K. 123 



nob so; itdiffdrs from Ciiiit.licr's spiicios hy liaviiiii; tlu; borly imicli 

 more cloiii^alo, the iiiiixilhiry shorter, aiid the teeth differcuit in 

 character ami number. The scales also ai'c much smal](!r, 91 as 

 against 78 on the lateral line. It is most nearly allied to F. 

 novai-canibria', but differs therefrom by its more lengthened shape, 

 the greater number of dorsal and anal rays, the shoi'ter maxilla, 

 not extending beyond the centre of the eye, with its posterior 

 border oblique (almost vertical in P. nov(i;-cambrice). A very 

 striking difference is presented by the gill rakers, and the fore- 

 going descriptions of isolated scales may also Ije compared. 



The figure of P. miilleri, Klunz.,* appears to have been reversed 

 or drawn from a dextral example. In this the lower eye is the 

 anterior one ; the number of teeth in the lower jaw is but seven 

 or eight, while the gill-rakers, although short and spiny, are 

 broadened at the free end and truncated, thus differing greatly 

 from those of P. tenuirastrura. 



AMMOTRETIS, Gilnther. 



AMMOTRETIS ROSTRATUS, Gilnther. 



Long-snouted Flounder. 



Ammotretis rostratus, Giinth., Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., iv., 1862, 



p. 458. 

 Ammotretis adspersus, Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, 1869, p. 286, 



taf. xiii., fig. 4. 



Station 50. 



The only example obtained was tra^ded in Shoalhaven Bight 

 in 15-18 fathoms. The radial formula which it exhibits is : — 



D. 80. A. 53. P. 10. V. dex. 7, sin. 4. C. 14. L. lat. 90. 



The dextral ventral rays in the type are rendered as six, and, 

 mainly on account of an example possessing seven rays, as in ours, 

 Kner guardedly proposed that if it was not A. rostratus it might 

 be called A. adspersus. In its shorter body our example agrees 

 with A. zonatios, Macl.,f afterwards renamed A. macleayi by 

 Ogilby, I but later§ sunk as a synonym of A. adspersus. 



235 mm. is the length of the specimen. 



* Khmzinger — Sitz. K. Akad. Wissen. Wien., 1879, Ixxx., pi. ix., fig. 2. 

 t Macleay— Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vii., 1883, p. 367. 

 + Ogilby— Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.,X., 1886, p. 121. 

 § Ogilby— Cat. Fishes, N.S.W., 1886, p. 48. 



