no. 2082. FLOUNDERS AND SOLES FROM JAPAN— HUBBS. 493 



ZEBRIAS ZEBRA (Bloch). 



Pleuronectes zebra Bloch, Ausl. Fische, vol. 3, 1790, p. 27, pi. 187. 

 Synaptura zebra Day, Fishes of India. 



Synaptura quagga Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1897, p. 90 (not Aesopia 

 quagga Kaup). 



This East Indian species is close to Z. japonicus, but differs from 

 that species at least in not having the bars on the dorsal and anal fins 

 between the extensions of the body bars on these fins. 



A specimen from Swatow, China, recorded as Synaptura quagga by 

 Rutter, collected by A. M. Fielde (No. 1553, Ichthyological Collec- 

 tions of Stanford University), has head 5.2 in length without caudal; 

 eye 5 in head; dorsal, 70; anal, 58; caudal, 18; caudal not closely 

 united to dorsal and anal; interorbital scaly; no ocular tentacles. 



No specimens were obtained by the Albatross. 



ZEBRIAS QUAGGA (Kaup). 



Aesopia quagga Kaup, Wiegm. Archiv fur Naturg., 1858, p. 98. 

 Synaptura quagga Gunther, Cat. Fishes, vol. 4, 1862, p. 485. 



A specimen from Hongkong, China, collected by'Capt. William 

 Finch (No. 9799 Ichth. Coll., Stanford University), is referable to the 

 species called Synaptura quagga by Gunther. Kaup's description 

 applies more closely, especially in fin rays, to this species than to 

 the preceding species, from which it is readily separable by the naked 

 interorbital and by the ocular tentacle on each eye. Jordan and 

 Seale, reporting on this specimen, 1 wrongly refer it to Z. zebra, plac- 

 ing Z. quagga in the synonomy of that species. Jordan and Starks 2 

 also refer Z. quagga to the synonomy of Z. zebra Bloch. 



No specimens were obtained by the Albatross. 



AESOPIA CORNUTA (Kaup.) 



Aesopia cornuta Kaup, Wiegm. Archiv fur Naturg., 1858, p. 95. 



C. Rutter, reporting on the fishes of Swatow, Chiaa, collected by 

 Miss A. M. Fielde, recorded a specimen of Aesopia and one of Zebrias 

 zebra under the name Synaptura quagga (Kaup). The specimen of 

 Aesopia is 95 mm. in total length; dorsal, 79; anal, 60; caudal, 13; 

 pores about 90 from opposite gill-opening; head about 5.3; depth, 

 about 3 ; eye less than 6 in head. This specimen differs from Japanese 

 specimens of A. cornuta of larger size, in the smaller eye and in the 

 form of the dorsal filament, which is bifid at tip, the posterior 

 branch short, the anterior branch long and slender, longer than the 

 rest of the ray, the ray with filament about as long as head. 



No specimens in the Albatross collections. 



iProc. Acad. Sci. Davenport, Iowa, vol. 10, p. 17, pi. 12. 

 »Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, 1906, p. 232. 



