23. SOLEA. 473 



composed of five rays,which are continuous with the anal. Scales on 

 the nape and on the chin twice as large as those on the body ; snout 

 with a few fringes on the blind side ; the right lower lip fringed. 

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

 length (without caudal). The width of the interorbital space is 

 nearly equal to, or rather more than, the diameter of the eye ; the 

 upper eye slightly in advance of the lower. The longest dorsal rays 

 are in the posterior fifth of the fin, two-thirds of the length of the 

 head. Caudal rounded, rather longer than the head. Brownish, 

 irregularly spotted with darker, and with about ten black vertical 

 lines crossing the lateral line. 



Atlantic coasts of tropical America. 



a. Fine specimen, 9^ inches long. Surinam. 



h, c. Adult and half-grown. Demerara. 



d. Adult. West Indies. Purchased of Mr. Scrivener. 



23. Solea inscripta. 

 Achirus inscriptus, Gosse, A Natur, Soj-. Jam. p. 52. pi. 1. fig. 4. 

 D. 57. A. 42. P. dextr. 3, sin. 1. L. lat. ca 100. 



Pectorals rudimentary on both sides ; one ray of the right fin 

 sUghtly prolonged. The right ventral fin is composed of five rays, 

 the last of which is connected by a membrane -with the base of the 

 first anal ray. Scales on the nape and on the chin twice as large as 

 those on the body ; snout and neck densely fiinged on the blind 

 side ; lips of the right side ciliated ; body and tail with scattered 

 filamentous appendages on the coloured side. The height of the 

 body is contained once and three-foiirths in the total length (without 

 caudal). The width of the interorbital space is less than the dia- 

 meter of the eye ; the upper eye scarcely in advance of the lower. 

 Yellowish-ohve : head, body, dorsal and anal fins covered with a net- 

 work of black lines ; caudal fin yellowish, with a few brownish dots. 



Jamaica. 



a. Thirty-one lines long. From Mr. Gosse's Collectioli. — Type of the 

 species. 



24. Solea maculipinnis. 



Monochir maculipinnis, Agass. in Spix, Pise. Bras. p. 88, tab. 49 (not 

 good) ; Casteln. Anim. nouv. Poiss. p. 79. 



lineatus, Quoi/ ^ Gat7n. Voy. Uran. Zool. p. 238 ; Quicken, in Ra- 

 mon de la Sagra, Hist. Cub. Poiss. p. 168 (not L.). 



D. 50-58. A. 41. P. 5. L. lat. 84. 



No trace of a pectoral on the loft side, that on the right with the 

 upper rays somewhat prolonged. The right ventral fin is composed 

 of five rays, which are continuous mth the anal. Scales on the nape 

 nearly twice as large as those on the body. Snout with a few fringes 

 on the blind side ; the right lower lip fringed. The height of the 

 body is contained once and two-thirds in the total length (M'ithout 



