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that the upper eye is in advance of the lower one, and the 
contrary is here the case. 
PLEUEONECTES. 
It is only with considerable doubt that I place in this genus 
the following sort, as the dorsal begins before the line of 
the eyes ; but in Dr. Gunther’s division of the Fleur onectidce, 
it would he included in his second division : — “ Cleft of the 
mouth narrow, with the dentition much more developed on the 
blind side than on the coloured.” The lower eye is considerably 
in advance of the upper one ; and the dorsal does not begin on 
the foremost part of the snout. 
PLEITEONECTES ? VICTOEIiE. 
(The Melbourne Flounder). 
The height of the body is twice and one-third in the total 
length, or less than twice up to the base of the caudal ; head a 
little over four times in the total length ; eye five times in the 
length of head ; the space between the eyes narrow and scale- 
less ; the teeth are absent on the coloured side, but are rather 
long, slender, and numerous, particularly in young individuals ; 
on the other side they appear in part worn out in the 
old ones ; the snout, up to the edge of the lower eye, is 
as long as the diameter of the latter ; the same diameter 
of the upper eye, is contained one and one-fourth times 
in the snout ; the operculum has an angle over the root 
of the pectorals ; the lateral line is straight, and runs over 
about eighty-five scales ; it is prolongated on the head, and 
emits a branch behind the operculum, which runs obliquely 
towards the dorsal, that it meets between the fifth and sixth 
dorsal ray ; the scales are small and rounded ; in the old speci- 
mens they are sensibly concave, particularly on the head and 
on the upper part of the body. The dorsal is much higher 
towards the middle of the body than in its otherparts, it has fifty- 
six or fifty-seven rays, which are always longer than the mem- 
branes, and gives the upper edge an appearance of being fringed ; 
the anterior ones are more prolongated, and the first of all is free, 
bifid, and only connected with the others by a very low mem- 
