PLEURONECTID.E. 447 



sh brown, c< 

 __.l sizes, each h 

 black dot. 



side greyish browa, covered with milk-white spots of various 

 shapes and sizes, each having a black outer edge and some a central 



Fig. 160. Achirus pavoninus. 

 Hob. Andamans to the Malay Archipelago and beyond. 



1326. (2.) Achirus maculatus. 



Pleuronectes maculatus, Bl. Schn. Syst. Ich. p. 157. 

 Achirus maculatus, Day, Fish. India, p. 427. 



D. 56. V. 6. A. 43. C. 15. L. 1. 65. 



Length of head 4^, height of body 2| in the total length. Eyes 

 diameter 9 in the length of head, and f diam. apart. Lower 

 lip fringed. Teeth minute ones present on blind side. Fins 

 most dorsal rays appear to be branched, the highest in the posterior 

 third of the body ; a pore at the base of each dorsal and anal ray 

 on the blind side. Colour slaty brown on the right side, with 

 numerous dark blotches, and some vertical black lines crossing the 

 lateral line at a right angle. Blind side of body yellowish with 

 scattered black blotches. 



Hob. Tranquebar, whence Bloch received the specimen described 

 (6'5 inches in length). 



7. Genus SYNAPTURA, Cantor. 



Syn. Brachirus, Swains. ; Achiroides, Bleeker j sEsopia, Euryylossa, 

 and Eurypleura, Kaup. 



Branchiostegals six. Eyes on the right side, the upper in ad- 

 vance of the lower. Cleft' of the mouth narrow, twisted round to 

 the left side ; the lips fimbriated or entire ; minute teeth on the 

 left side only ; palate edentulous. Vertical fins confluent. Scales 

 ctenoid (cycloid in S. cornuta), small. Lateral line straight. 



