30 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE 



(Linnean name.) (Modern name.) 



Pleuronectes lineatus (tj-pe). Solea liaeata. 



(Ed. sii.) 



(123) Skin, 6| in. long, in good condition. 



Garden's label : No. 26. Pleuronectes. Nostratib. Sole. 



On the reverse of label in Linne's handwriting : " lineatus." 



Identified by Giinther, iv. p. 476. 



In the tenth edition Linne described first this Sole as 

 Fl. lineatus after Brown & Sloane ; so that Garden's spe- 

 cimen cannot be regarded as the type of the species, as it 

 appeared in that edition. When he gives 45 as the number of 

 anal rays, he seems to have included the ventral rays ; the 

 specimen has 40 anal rays only. In the 10th edition the 

 sjiecies is correctly placed among those which have the eyes on 

 the right side, but by some inadvertence he transferred it in 

 the 12th edition to the left-eyed species. 



Pleuronectes plagiusa (type). Aphoristia ornata. 



(124) Skin, 5 in. long, not in good condition. 

 Garden's label : No. 27. Plagusia. 



On the reverse of this label in Linne's handwriting : ^' Pleuron. 

 Plar/iiisa." 



Eeferred to in Linn. Corr. i. p. 306, but not p. 314 (as sup- 

 posed by Goode & Bean) ; the fish referred to by Garden in 

 his consignment of June 2, 1763, must have been a very 

 different kind of fish quite unknown to him, while he was 

 well acquainted with Aplioristia, which he sent under the 

 name of Taper-Flounder. 



The scales of the specimen are partly rubbed off", but I count 

 about 90 transverse series, and not 77 as given by Goode and 

 Bean, Singularly, Linne places this fish among the right- 

 eyed species — an error by which I was misled into supposing 

 that the specimen might be a species of Aj^ioniclithys (Glinth. 

 iv, p. 490), 



Silurus felis (type). iElurichthys felis. 



{JElnrichthys marinus, Mitch.) 



(125) Skin, 13 in. long, damaged by dermestes. 



Garden's label: No. 19. Silurus. Nostratib, Cat Fish, 

 The same number written by Garden on the specimen. 



On the reverse of this label in Linne's handwriting : 

 " S. felis." 



Keferred to in Corresp. Linn. i. p. 306, where the number 

 is misprinted 10 for 19. 



lleferred to by Goode & Bean (p. 205), who, however, 

 identify the specimen with a species of Arius (milberli) — 

 an error perpetuated in subsequent American publications. 



Clupea vernalis. 



(126) Skin, 9g in. long, in good condition. 

 Garden's label : No. 4. Clupea. 



