class pisces. 497 



series of red spots, wide apart, on the dorsal and anal, 

 Rh. candidissimiis, Risso, 2nd edit. f. 34., or Plenr. 

 diaphanus, Schn. iv. 2nd part, 309. 



In other turbots the eyes are very much separated, 

 and the upper one far back ; their interval is concave ; 

 they have a small salient hook on the base of the 

 maxillary, at the side where the eyes are, and some- 

 times another on the inferior eye. The Mediterra- 

 nean produces some of this sort \ 



SoLEA, CUV., 



Have, as a peculiar character, the mouth turned, and, 

 as it were, distorted to the side opposite to the eyes, 

 and furnished on that side only with very fine and 

 crowded teeth, while the side on which the eyes are 

 have none. Their form is oblong ; their muzzle 

 round, and almost alvvavs more advanced than the 

 mouth ; the dorsal commencing on the mouth, ex- 

 tends, as well as the anal, as far as the caudal ; their 

 lateral line is straight ; the side of the head opposite 

 to the eyes is generally furnished with a sort of vil- 

 losity ; their intestine is long, several times folded, 

 and without cceca. 



The species common in our seas, and universally 

 known, PL solea, L. Bl. 45. (the sole), is brown on 



1 Pleur. podas, Laroche, Ann. du Mus. XIII. xxiv., or PL rhom- 

 boides, Rondel. 313., which is also the same as the PL argus and 

 mancus of Risso, 1st edit. ; Pleur. argus, Bl., and lunatus, Gm., 

 Bloch. 48., or better, Catesb. Carol xxvii. 



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