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first rays are undivided ; the fourth, the longest, is 2\ in the length of 

 the head. The left ventral is placed a little farther backward. The 

 pectorals are pointed, ^ the length of the head. The stomach is very- 

 capacious, broad pyriform ; the intestinal canal is simple, about f of the 

 total length. Single individuals occur at all seasons at Pinang, and 

 are eaten by the natives. 



B. — Eyes and colour on the left side. 



HlPPOGLOSSUS ERUMEI, VAR. A. 



Habit : Sea of Pinaag. 



This is simply a reversed, sinistral variety, necessary, however, to 

 distinguish as such from a second, differing in colours. The present 

 attains to the size of the dextral, but at Pinang it is of rarer occurrence. 

 Individuals of equal length differ in no characters except in such as are 

 necessarily the consequence of reversion, such, for instance, as the left 

 ventral fin being placed a little anterior to the right. 



HlPPOGLOSSUS ERUMEI, VAR. B. 



Russell, LXXVIL Nooree Nalaka C. 



Hippoglossus nalaka, Cuvier, R. A. II. 340( J ). 



Left side. Ground colour pale brownish grey or white minutely 

 dotted with brown ; a broad brownish black vertical band, extending 

 from the jaws over the sides of the head and body to the root of the 

 pectorals ; two similar on the sides of the body, and a fourth over the 

 posterior part of the body and the tail ; the three last bands extending 

 faintly over the corresponding parts of the dorsal and anal ; anterior 

 half of caudal whitish dotted with brown ; posterior half brownish 

 black ; rest of the fins and eyes like H. erumei. 



Bight side, like the left of H. erumei. 



Habit : Sea of Pinang, Malayan Peninsula, Singapore. 

 Coromandel. 



Except in colours and being sinistral, the present variety agrees in 

 every other character with H. erumei. Russell, indeed, observed the 

 strong resemblance, but he imagined that in this variety the scales 

 were smaller, and the lateral line carinated. Comparison of equal indi- 

 viduals of both shews no difference of the size of the scales, and the 

 lateral line is equally raised in both. Russell describes the length as 



