28G A. Alcock — List of Pleuronectidas /?-ohi the. Bay of Brngal. [No. 3, 



On the coloured side two nostrils in front of the lower eye and near- 

 ly on the upper lip, the anterior forming a tube nearly equal to the eye 

 in length, the posterior being a small foramen. On the blind aide two 

 nostrils, of which the anterior is perforated in a large fleshy sucker- 

 like papilla. 



The cleft of the mouth forms a semicircle with the convexity for- 

 wards and upwai-ds, its angle reaches the vertical from the middle of the 

 lower eye. Small villiform teeth in the jaws on the blind side. Gill- 

 cleft narrow. No fringe beneath the lower jaw. Integument invested 

 with small scales ctenoid on both sides. The lateral line is straight on 

 the coloured side, but on the blind side it has a Y-shaped break just be- 

 hind the gill-cleft. 



Fins. The dorsal extends from the tip of the rostral hook to the 

 base of the caudal, and the anal is continuous with the right ventral, 

 the united fins extending from the point where the rostral hook opposes 

 the lower jaw to the base of the caudal. The basal fourth of the vertical 

 fins, both rays and interradial membrane, is regularly and evenly invest- 

 ed, on the coloured side only, with rows of small scales. 



The caudal has 18 rays ; its length is one-eighth of the total. Ven- 

 trala with 5 rays : the coloured ventral continuous with the anal, and 

 left ventral connected with its fellow and with the anal by a flap of 

 skin. 



Pectorals absent. 



Colours during life. Ground colour light brown, intersected by a 

 most elegant network of irregular light olive-green lines forming a 

 somewhat pentagonal pattern. Along the dorsal curve are five large, 

 perfect, and complicated ocelli with light-green centre, brown irides, 

 and light green margins. Four similar ocelli along the ventral curve, 

 and another smaller one at the ba.se of the caudal. A few small 

 incomplete ocelli along the lateral line, and numerous dark brown dots 

 and rings scattered all over the body. Pius transparent grey-green, 

 every fourth or fifth ray uniform dark brown, and the intermediate rays 

 streaked with brown. 



Length 4 inches. Two sjiecimens. 



Taken in 7 fathoms, from a hard sandy bottom, about 32 miloa 

 S. W. of Puri. 



12. Synaptura. quagga, (Kaup). 



Giinther, Oat. iv, 485. ISijnaptiira zebra of Day, FialiGS ot India, p. 430, but 

 not Cantor, nor Bloch's dcscrip.] 



Found all along the coast in 7-10 fathoms. 



