1889.] A. Aloock—L!sf of Pleuronectidas from the Bay of Bengal. 289 



and two nostrils, one in front of tte interocnlar space, the other in front 

 of the lower angle of the lower eye. One lateral lino on the blind side 

 Length of head 4i in the total and a little more than its height. Len-th 

 of eye 10^ m the head; the upiser eye slightly in advance. Interocular 

 space two-thirds the length of the eye in width. The rostral hook ends 

 beneath the eye. The angle of the mouth is in the vertical from the 

 posterior border of the lower orbit and nearer to the gill-opening than to 

 the tip of the snout. Lips not fringed. The length of the snout is in 

 the head-length. The height of the body is a little over one-fourth of 

 the total length. One ventral fin united with the anal. The heiglit of 

 the vertical fins is one-fifth the height of the body. Scales ctenoid on 

 both sides. Sepia-coloured, each scale with a light centre and with a 

 dark spot near the middle of its posterior margin. 

 Total length 8i inches. 



In 7 fathoms on a bottom of hard sand 32 miles S. W. of Puri. 

 The specimen is a female. 



20. Cynoolossus pdncticeps, (Richardson). 

 Gunther, Cat. iv, 500; Day, Fishes of India, p. 437, \A. xcvii, fig. 1. 

 A single male specimen was taken in 8 fathoms on a soft bottom 

 off Puri. 



21. Ctnoglossus brevis, Gunther. 

 Gunther, Cat. iv, 500; Day, Pishes of India, p. 437, pi. xcvii, fig. 2. 

 A single female specimen was taken, on a clean sandy bottom, in 7 

 to 8 fathoms, off the Ohilka Lake bar. 



22. Ctnoglosstis semifasciatds. Day. 



Day, Fishes of India, p. 436, pi. xovii. Fig. 5. 



A single specimen was got in C to 10 fathoms on a soft bottom, 

 north-east of Puri. 



23. Ctnoglossus melanopteeus, Bleeker. 



Giinther, Cat. iv. 502. \_Gynoglossus monopns, Bleeker Atlas lohth. torn, vi, 

 p. 38, pi. coxlv, fig. 4.] 



Six specimens of a fish which appears to be this species were taken 

 in 7 fathoms, between 30 and 35 miles S. W. of Puri. They were 

 caught in the small hand-dredge, which came up full of grass-lite sea- 

 weed. The movements of this fish, when placed in a large tub of water, 

 were singularly rapid, and it is sui-prising that it should have been 

 caught in the very narrow mouth of a slow-moving dredge. The larger 

 specimens differ from Bleeker's description in the following particulars : 

 (1) the number of transverse rows of scales is over 120 ; (2) the lateral 



