498 ORDER MALACOPTERYGII SUBBRACHIATI. 



the side where the eyes are, with a pectoral spotted 

 with black, and is one of our best fishes. 



We have several other species, particularly in the 

 Mediterranean 1 . 



Some foreign species have no distinction between 

 their three vertical fins 2 . 



We shall call 



MONOCHIR, CltV., 



Those soles which have only an extremely small pec- 

 toral on the side where the eyes are, and in which 

 that of the opposite side is almost imperceptible, or is 

 altogether wanting. 



We have one in the Mediterranean, the Linguatida, 

 Rondel. 324., (Pleur. microchiriis), Lar. Ann. Mus. 

 XIII. 356 3 . 



1 The Pole ofBelon 143. and Rondel. 323., different from that of 

 Paris, which is a plaice, has the eyes to the left, according to these 

 two writers. I know not whether it is the Rh, polus, Risso, 2nd 

 edit. f. 32. which is drawn with the eyes to the right. PL ocellatus, 

 Schn. 40., the same as PL Rondelettii, Sh. ; Solea oculata, or Pe- 

 gouze, Rondel. 322. ; PL lascaris, Risso, 1st edit. pi. vii. f. 32., 

 and several foreign species, which we shall describe in our work on 

 Ichthyology. 



2 PL zebra, Bl. 187. ; PL plagiusa, L. ; PL orientalis, Schn. 

 157. ; PL Commersonien, Lacep. III. xii. 2., or Jerre potoo, A. 

 Russel 70. ; but the description Lac. IV. 656. is of another species 

 of the subgenus Rhombus ; the Sole cornue, Russel 72. figure not 

 very exact; PL jerreus, Cuv., or Jeree potoo, B., Russel 71.; PL 

 pan, Buch. xiv. 42. 



; It is probably the Pleur. mangilii, Risso 310. Other species 



