23. SOLE A. 467 



2. One of the nostrils of the blind side is dilated, broadly fringed. 



8. Solea aurantiaca. 

 The Lemon Sole. 

 Solea pegiisa, Yarr. Zool. Jottrn. iv. p. 467.pl. 16, and Brit. Fish. ed. 2. 



ii. p. 351 ; Jen. Man. p. 467 (not Laceji. or Risso). 

 nasuta, liichards. inYarr.Brit.Fish. Sixi edit. i. p. G62 (not Pall.). 



D. 89. A. 66. L. lat. 130. Vert. 46*. 



The height of the body is contained twice and three-fifths in the 

 total length (without caudal), the length of the head five times and 

 a fourth. The upper jaw slightly overlaps the lower, ^^ithout being 

 produced into a pointed, longish lobe. The width of the interorbital 

 space equals the diameter of the eye. One of the nostiils on the 

 blind side is very wide, circular, surrounded by a narrow ring of 

 papilte. The pectorals of both sides are nearly equal in length, and 

 contained twice and a third in the length of the head. Yellowish, 

 marbled with brown and speckled with black ; pectoral with an 

 ovate black spot on its hinder half. 



Coasts of England and Portugal. 



a. Adult. England. Presented by Mr. YarreU. 



b-c. Adult : stuffed. English coast. 



d-e. Adult : skins. England. From Mr. YarreU's Collection. 



/. Half-grown: stuffed. Devonshire. 



</. Adult : stuffed. Brixham. 



h-h Adult : skins. From Dr. ParneU's Collection. 



m. Half-growTi. Lisbon. Presented by G. Hough, Esq. 



This species, confounded by Yarrell and other writer's with S. pe- 

 gusa, and by Sir J. Richai'dson with 8. nasuta, is new to science. 



9. Solea lascaris. 



Pleuronectes lascaris, Risso, Icldh. Nice, p. .311. tab. 7. fig. 32. 

 ? Pleiu'onectes theophilus, Risso, I. c. p. 313. 

 Solea lascaris, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii. p. 249. 

 Khonibus polus, Risso, I. c. p. 480. fig. 32. 

 ? Rhombus theophilus, Risso, I. c. p. 256. 

 Pleuronectes solea, var. c, Nardo, Prodi: Adr. Ichth. sp. 136. 

 Solea scriba, Vulcnc. in JVehh S,- Berth. lies Canar. Poiss. p. 84. pi. 18. 

 fig. 3 (veiy bad, from a skinned specimen). 



D. 85. A. 64. P. 11. L. lat. 150. 

 The height of the body is one-third of the total length (without 

 caudal), the length of the head one-fifth. Upper jaw produced into 

 a longish lobe, overhanging the lower. The width of the inter- 

 orbital space equals the vertical diameter of the eye. One of the 

 nostrils on the blind side is very wide, circular, surrounded by a 

 broad wreath of fringes. Pectorals of both sides e(iual in length, 

 half as long as the head. Gill-rakers rudimentary. Brown, va- 



* Yarrell states 43 vertebrae ; I have counted them in the same specimen in 

 which Yarrell had laid bare the spine. 



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