LEMON SOLE 



351 



SUBBRACHTAL 



MALACOPTERYGII. 



PLEURONECTID&. 



THE LEMON SOLE. 



THE FRENCH SOLE, SuSSCX COdSt. 



Solea pegusa, Lemon Sole, YARRELL, Zool. Journ. vol. iv. p. 467, pi. 16. 

 ,, ,, ,, ,, JENYNS, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 467, sp. 155. 



DURING a short visit to Brighton in the last week of 

 February 1829, I obtained a single example of this species 

 of Sole, which appeared to have been previously unnoticed 

 as occurring on our shores. Since it was described in the 

 Zoological Journal, as above quoted, I have obtained, but at 

 considerable intervals, two or three other specimens of this 

 fish in the London market, and have now deposited examples 

 in the British Museum and the collection of the Zoological 

 Society. 



This species is occasionally taken with the common Sole 

 when trawling over a clear bottom of soft sand, about sixteen 

 miles from Brighton in a direction towards the coast of 

 France ; from which circumstance this fish is known to some 

 of our fishermen by the name of French Sole ; others call it 



