1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1201 



being six inches. Of a number of individuals examined at Pinang and 

 Singapore none exceeded 6f inches. It remains to be ascertained if 

 this variety attains to the same size as Far. A. t or if it is merely a 

 transient livery of certain young individuals of Var* A. 



Gen. Solea, Klein 1748. 



Eyes and colour on the right side ; mouth distorted on the side 

 opposite the eyes ; minute crowded teeth in the half of both jaws 

 opposite the eyes, the other half toothless ; form of the body oblong ; 

 muzzle rounded and generally projecting beyond the mouth ; dorsal 

 commencing opposite or a little in front of the upper eye ; caudal sepa- 

 rated from dorsal and anal. 



Solea humilis, Cantor. 



Right side. Pale umber-brown, minutely dotted with black, and 

 with numerous small blackish spots ; an indistinct larger one close 

 below the middle of the base of the dorsal, and a second at the poste- 

 rior third ; two corresponding spots near the base of the anal ; mem- 

 branes of the fins pale brownish buff dotted with black, rays pale 

 umber ; on the caudal some indistinct blackish spots ; near the point 

 of the pectoral an oval-, and between the two lowest rays a linear black 

 spot. Iris pale silvery. 



Left side. Pectoral, ventral and short filaments about the mouth 

 brownish white. 



D 57, C 12f, a 42, V 5, P 8, Br. VI. 



Habit : Sea of Pinang. 



Total length : 3f inch. 



Right side. The form of the body resembles that of Solea pegusa, 

 Yarrell,* but the vertical diameter is greater in the present. The 

 length of the head is 5^ in the total. The upper orbit, the larger, is 

 situated in the centre between the angle of the mouth and the corre- 

 sponding part of the dorsal, but much nearer the muzzle ; the horizon- 

 tal diameter is £ of the length of the head. The lower orbit is situated 

 between the angle of the mouth and the posterior angle of the upper 

 orbit, of which its horizontal diameter is f . The distance between the 

 orbits slightly exceeds the horizontal diameter of the upper orbit, 



* Zool. Joura, IV. 467, PI. 16.— British Fishes : II, 260. 



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