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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
BOTHID^ (or PLEUEONECTID^). 
Began makes the Bothicte a family distinct from Pleuronectid®. 
Platophrys pantherinus Biippell. ]3arnley Island. Scales subquadrate, 
-about 1-1^ mm. long, the basal middle more or less extended, and the laterobasal 
corners ill-defined ; cireuli very dense ; radii basal and lateral, very fine and 
numerous. The scales of the upper (coloured) side are strongly ctenoid, with a 
single row of about 18-23 long sharp teeth. Those of the blind side are cycloid, 
with eirculi and radii crossing in the apical field, forming an irregular cancella- 
tion. In my key to Pleuronectid scales (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Oct. 31, 
1911) this runs straight to Platophrys, and falls vfith P. constellates, from which 
it differs by the generally longer scales. All Platophrys examined have the 
cancellate structure in the apical field. The species differ in the number of 
marginal teeth on the ctenoid scales; thus in P. podas they are not nearly so 
numerous as in P. pantherinus. 
SOLEID^. 
Aserragodes macleayanus Bam say. Queensland. Scales elongate, about 
2 mm. long and 1 broad; nucleus subapieal; circuli dense; radii very numerous, 
though not so dense as in Platophrys pantherimiS) ctenoid patch well developed; 
marginal teeth very large, usually 9, sometimes fewer, structure of ctenoid area 
practically as in Aphoristia, not at all as in Achirus, though the genus has been 
referred to the Achiringe. The radial system also is w^holly unlike that of 
Achiriis, but does resemble that of Aphoristia. 
