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called Tappa Impiriali or Linguata Impiriali. it is still better than the 
Linguata to eat. It is rarely taken, because it lives on the sandy or 
muddy bottoms of the sea, where it creeps under the sand or the mud. 
It is very distinct from the preceding (B. tappa) being larger; it has the 
following numbers of fin-rays, that is, dorsal nearly 100; anal nearly 
80; ventrals 8; pectorals 12; caudal 15.” 
According to Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1852, 748, pl. 53, as 
quoted in the Zoological Record for 1882, this Arnoglossus lophotes.is 
identical with Arnoglossus grohmannt. If so the latter species may have 
been the original Arnoglossus imperialis. 
32. ARNOGLOSSUS GROHMANNI. 
?? Bothus imperialis Rafinesque, Caratteri di aleuni nuovi generi e specie, 1810, 23 
(Palermo). 2 
Pleuronectes grohmanni Bonaparte, Fauna Ital., Pesci, 1837. 
Arnoglossus grohmanni Giinther, Cat. Fish., iv, 417, 1862. (Mediterranean.) Steindach- 
ner, Ichthyol. Bericht. Akad. Wissen. Wien, 1868, Sechste Fortzetzung, 
p. 50. (Barcelona, Cadiz, Malaga.) 
This small flounder seems to be rather common in the Mediterranean. 
It reaches a larger size than A. laterna, and it is less transparent than 
the latter. The numerous specimens examined by us were collected by 
Dr. Jordan at Venice. 
33. ARNOGLOSSUS CONSPERSUS. 
Arnoglossus conspersus Canestrini, “Archiv Zool., i, 10, tav. 1, f. 2, 1861.” Giinther, iv, 
416 (copied). Steindachner, Ichthyol. Bericht. Akad. Wissen. Wien, 
1868, Sechste Fortzetzung, p. 50 (Malaga). Vinciguerra, Risultate Ittiol. 
del Violante, 1883, 104 (Genoa). 
Habitat.—Mediterranean Sea. 
We have not seen this species, and regard it as distinct from Arno- 
glossus laterna, chiefly because it is so considered ‘by Dr. Steindachner. 
Dr. Vinciguerra gives a comparison of the two species, thinking them 
very doubtfully distinct, but without reaching a positive conclusion. 
34. ARNOGLOSSUS LATERNA. 
(THE SCALD-FISH. ) 
Arnoglossus (Perpeire) Rondelet, De Piscibus, xi, ec. 14, 324, 1554. 
Pleuronectes laterna Walbaum, Artedi Piscium, 204, 1792 (after Rondelet). 
Arnoglossus laterna Giinther, Cat. Fish., iv, 415, 1862. (Cannes, Broxham, Plymouth.) 
Steindachner, Ichthyol. Bericht. Akad. Wissen. Wien, 1868, Sechste Fori- 
setzung, p.50. (Barcelona, Alicante, Malaga.) Day, Brit. Fishes, vol. ii, 
p. 22, plate xcix, fig. 2. 
Pleuronectes arnoglossus Bloch and Schneider, 1801, p. 157. 
Pleuronectes diaphanus Shaw, Gen’l Zool., iv, 309, 1803. 
Pleuronectes casurus Pennant, “ Brit. Zool., 1812, iii, 825, pl. 53.” 
Pleuronectes leotardi Risso, Ichth. Nice, 318, 1810.- 
? Bothus tappa Rafinesque, Caratteri, 1810, 23 (Palermo). 
