23. soLEA. 465 



line is curved above the pectoral, and does not extend to the eye. 

 Pectoral blackish at its extremity. 

 Senegal. 



The typical specimen is in the Paris Museum. 



4. Solea oceUata. 



Solea oculata, Rondel, xi. c. 12. p. 322 ; Gesner, Aquat. iii. pp. 667, 669; 



Aldrov. ii. c. 43. pp. 235, 236 ; Willughhy, p. 100. tab. F. 8. fi^. 4 ; 



Jonston, ii. lib. i. tit. 2. c. 2. a. 2. punct. 1. p. 57. tab. 20. fig-. 11. 

 Solea, no. 3, Klein, Pise. Miss. iv. p. 32. 

 ? P^gouse, Duham. iii. sect. 9. p. 259. tab. 2. fig. 4. 

 Pleuronectes ocQ]la.tMS,L.Syst.Nat. i. p. 456 f ; Bl. Schn.-p. 147. tab. 40 ; 



Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 309 ; Shaw, Zool. iv. p. 307. 



pegusa. Lace}}, iv. p. 639. 



rondeletii, Shaw, Zool. iv. p. 307. 



Solea oculata, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii. p. 248 ; Bonap. Faun. Ital. Pcsce ; 



Valenc. in Webb SfBerthel. IlesCanar.Poiss. p. 84. pi. 18. fig. 2 (bad) ; 



Costa, Faun. Nap. ii. p. 45 ; Canestr. Arch. Zool. i. p. 37. tav. 4. fig 1* 



(scale). 



D. 67. A. 52. L. lat. 78. 



The height of the body is contained twice and two-thirds in the 

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

 three-fourths. Interorbital space very narrow ; eyelids broad, thick, 

 covered with rough scales. Nostrils on the blind side hidden between 

 fringes. Pectoral of the coloured side more developed than that of 

 the blind, its length being contained twice and a third in that of the 

 head. Brownish-grey, with four black ocelli edged with white, dis- 

 posed in a quadrangle behind the middle of the length of the fish ; 

 several other black blotches on the trunk, the hindmost of which is 

 situated on the lateral line and is the most constant. Base of the 

 caudal with a black cross-band J, behind which is another of a light 

 colour. 



Mediterranean and the neighbouring parts of the Atlantic. 



a. Fine specimen. Madeira. Presented by J. Y. Johnson, Esq. 

 h. Adult. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



o. Solea hexophthalma. 



Bennett, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. i. p. 147. 



D. 66. A. 49. L. lat. 88. 



The height of the body is contained twice and a half in the total 

 length (without caudal), the length of the head four times and a 

 third. Interorbital space very narrow, its width being equal to the 

 vertical diameter of the eye. Nostrils on the blind side hidden. 

 Pectoral of the coloured side more developed than that of the blind, 

 its length being one-half of that of the head. Brownish-olive, with 



t Linnajus erroneously states Surinam as the native country of tliis species. 

 I This black band is mentioned by Linnd, but omitted by Schneider and 

 Bonaparte. Perhaps two species are confounded under the name of S. oceJIata. 

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