106 



BULLETIN <iF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



of posterior third of body: a row of indistinct ocflli at base of each vertical fin; numerous dusky dots and 

 blotcliesonfins. 



Ont' large specimen from Bulan (no. 4050; length 1.5.5 in.). Type, no. S589S, U. S. National Museum, 

 collected by Charles J. Pierson. 



292. Psettodes erumei (Bloch & Schneider) . Uguerangueray. 



Two specimens from San Fabian (no. 3S48 and 3.'S49: length 4.75 and (i..5 in.). Head 3.6 in length; depth 

 2.5; eyes on right side. It may be that the sinistral speeiincns recorded by Gilnthcr and Bleekcr are a different 

 species. 



Plcuronectes erumei Bloch & Schneider, Syst. IcMh., 150, 1801, "ad Tranquebarium." 



Psettodes erumei, Gunther, Cat., iv, 402 (China; Amboyna; Pinang; India): Day, Fishes India, 422, pi. xci, fig. 4: Bieelcer, 

 Atlas, Yi, 4, pi. ccx.wii, fig. 2. 



Family SOLEID^. 

 293. AcMrus hartzfeldii Bleeker. 



One specimen from "Philippine Islands" (no local label; no. 4012; length 4.5 in.). Anal 63; lateraUine 98. 



Acltirus hartzfeldii Bleelcer, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., iv, 1863, 123, Amboyna; Atlas, vi, 25, pi. CCXLVI, fig. 1. 

 Aseraggodes hartzfeldii, Kaup, .Vrehiv f. Naturgesch., jhg. xxiv, 1858, hd. i, 103. 

 Sotca hartzfeldii, Gunther, Cat., iv, 471 (Amboyna). 



294. Synaptura sorsogonensis Evermann & Scale, new species. 



Head 5.25 in length without caudal : depth2..37; dorsal74; anal 61; caudal 16; dorsal and anal continuous 

 with caudal; pores of lateral line 141, of which 20 are in the short curved portion above the head: interorbital 

 space scaled, scarcely greater than diameter of lower eye; upper eye covered liy skin: the beaklike snout not 

 extending around to a line with eye; upper nostril a distinct hollow papilla located in front of lower eye; 













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Fig. 22.— Synaptura sorsogonensis Evermann & Snale, new species. Type. 



nostril of blind side greatly dilated and frin<?ed; anterior part of head with numerous dermal fringes; dermal 

 flaps scattered in groups over dillerent portion of body, 4 such groups on lateral line and 4 on each side of body, 

 alternating with the groups on lateral line ; smaller groups along base of dorsal and anal fin ; lateral line straight 

 until it reaches head, where it makes a sharp curve ending on a line with anterior margin of upper eye : gillrakers 

 obsolet(^; colored pectoral 3.75 in head; uneolored pectoral 4: dorsal lieginning on snout in front of eyes, its 

 middle ray 1.85 in head; middle anal ray 2 in head ; colored ventral 2.9; caudal 1.3. 



