290 A. Alcock — list of Pleuronectidoe /row the Bay of Bengal. [No. 3, 



lines are separated by 18 to 19 scales at the level of greatest divergence ; 

 and (3) tie tipper lateral line is sinuous. 



During life, the eyes of this Cynoglossus almost resemble the stalked 

 eyes of a gastropod mollusk. 



There is a simple saccular stomach, and a simple intestine much 

 convoluted, and exceeding in length the total length of the fish. 



This completes the list of the Orissa Coast collection. 



Here also may be mentioned the followiig, as its habitat is very 

 similar to that of the Orissa fishes : — 



26. Plagdsia bilikeata, (Bloch). 



Giinther, Cat. iv, 492 : Day, Fishes of India, p. 431. 

 Taken on a muddy bottom in 4 to 6 fathoms, near the Sacramento 

 shoal, off the Godavari Delta. 



§ 3. List, with Descriptions, of the Shallow Wafer Forms oltained during 

 Seasons previous to 1888-89. 



24. Aenoglossus poltlepis, n. sp., PI. XVI, Fig. 1. 



D ciro. 82. A. circ. 60. L. 1, 90 to 100. 



Body oval, its height being a little over half the total longHi, 

 ■without the caudal. Length of head a little over one-third the same 

 length; its height greater than its length; its dorsal profile slightly 

 concave in front of the upper eye. Length of the snout not much 

 more than half the length of the eye, which is one-third the length 

 of the head. The lower eye in advance. The interorbital space is a 

 grooved ridge. Nostrils on the coloured side both sub-tubular. Mouth 

 large, the maxilla being two-fifths the length of the head. Teeth small, 

 sharp and uniform, in a single series in both jaws ; in the upper jaw 

 close-set like the teeth of a comb ; in the lower jaw extending further 

 backwards on the right side. 



Gill-rakers rather close ; lanceolate. 



Integument clothed with very small deciduous scales, which are 

 ctenoid on the coloured, cycloid on the blind side. Lateral line on the 

 coloured side with a strong curve above the pectoral, on the blind side 

 gradually rising without a marked anterior curve. First two rays of 

 the dorsal fin broad and thickened in their basal half, tapering above. The 

 longest dorsal rays, just behind the middle of the fin, are a little more 

 than one-fourth the body height : behind them the rays rapidly shorten, 

 giving the fin an angular outline. The longest anal rays, about the 

 middle of the fin, are two-sevenths of the body height, and the rays bo- 

 hind them diniiuisb in the same way as the posterior dorsal rays. There 



