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CHArTER III. 



SOLEA VULGARIS, Quensel. 



[Plates I to V.] 



Synonymy. 



Pui^lXwaaov, Athen. vii, p. 288. 



" Lingnlaca," Varro and Plautus. 



" Solea," Ovid, V. 124 ; Plin., ix, c. 16. 



" Buglossus sive Solea," Rondeletius, xi, c. 11, p. 320, and other m'^diapval authors. 



" La Sole," Rondelet, 1558, French edition, Lyons, p. 256. 



" Plenronectes, sp.," Ai-tedi, 1734, Genera, p. 18, No. 6 ; Species, p. GO, No. 5 ; Synonymtn, 



p. 82, No. 8. 

 " Plenronectes solea," Lin., Syst. Nat., 1, p. -157 ; Bloch, 1784, Fl^che Ben.tsr.hl., ii, p. 42, 



taf. 45; Lacepede, iv, p. 023; Donovan, 1808, Brit. Fish., in, pi. 52; Risso, 1810, 



Iclitli. Nice, p. 307. 

 " Sole," Pennant, Brit. Zool, iii, p. 203. 

 "La Sole," Duhamel, iii, sec. 9, p. 257, pi. 1. 

 "Solea vulgaris," Quensel, 1806, Vet. Akad. Handl., p. 230; Risso, 1826, Nat. 



Hist. Eur. Mcr., iii, p. 247 ; Bonaparte, Fau7ia Ital., iii, 26 ; Giinther, 1862, 



Brit. Mils. Catal., iv, p. 463; Morean, 1881, Poissons de la France, p. 304; 



Francis Day, 1884, Fish. Gt. Brit, and Ire., p. 39, pi. cvi. 



A COMPARISON of the above figures gives the following results. There are no 

 constant sexual differences in any of the ten characters given in the table, except 



